Events
Promotional gifts and prizes
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
There are evergreens on the prize gift market, for example all kinds of technical devices and IT gadgets. Obviously these cannot be used in every segment of the market and...
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The Internet helps in buying medicine
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
Hungarian medicine and medicinal product buyers use the Internet to gather information more often than other nationals. A Nielsen survey (conducted in 55 countries) found that 34 percent of Hungarian...
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The silent shop assistant
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
Trends in the packaging of daily goods are influenced by global processes in world society and economy, creating new opportunities and demand, but posing new challenges as well. Experts have...
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The wine market is waiting for better times
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
– Sales and buying occasions of consumers moved drastically towards products supported with promotions. It is promotion campaigns that drive consumers to sales channels and products – Gábor Soltész, president-director...
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Shoppers who buy vodka are likely to put other drinks in the basket too
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
Nielsen’s Retail Index reveals that discount stores realised 17 percent of value sales in the 90 food categories measured in the December 2009-May 2010 period. As for the 60 household...
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Ready to be transported and put on the shelf
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
Global trends influence the Hungarian collective packaging market. One of the current trends is using lighter cardboard products, especially on developed markets. In Europe demand is constantly growing for below...
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Fruit Logistica: Hungarians booked 200 m²
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
Fruit Logistica, the world’s biggest fruit-vegetable trade fair will take place on 9-11 February 2011. More than 2,300 exhibitors from 70 countries registered and Hungarian participants booked 200 m² to...
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Wine has become cheaper in retail chains, while organised retail is consolidating
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
According to the Nielsen Retail Index, wine value sales grew by 14 percent and volume sales were up 8 percent in the eight retail chains measured by Nielsen, in the...
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Traditional shops increased their market share
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
According to the Nielsen Retail Index, 8 percent less salami and 4 percent less sausage was sold in value by retailers in January-April, in comparison with the same period in...
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Food policy summit at Grüne Woche in Berlin
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
Berlin’s food fair Grüne Woche is increasingly important in the political aspects of organising the food market. For 21 January next year more than 50 countries will send their agriculture...
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The Spritzer Bus has hit the road
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
The idea came from the Community Wine Marketing Fund: promoting spritzer made from good Hungarian wines with a 2-month, nearly 2,000-km tour around the country. Early July ‘spritzer master’ András...
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Long-established Hungarian meat brands stand firm
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
Although meat is one of the essential food products, the market was unable to evade the effects of economic recession. Zoltán Nagygyörgy, PICK Szeged Zrt.’s product manager told us that...
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Brau Beviale 2010: the leading trade fair of Europe’s beverage industry
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
Raw material, technology, logistics and marketing trends will be in the focus of this year’s Brau Beviale, held in Nürnberg on 10-12 November. Recently the organisers gave an international press...
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A strong forint lifted meat prices
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
The Agricultural Economics Research Institute (AKI) continuously monitors and publishes world trends in poultry and meat products. Their last report reveals that the abattoir entry price of slaughter pig in...
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The average volume of cured products bought per household keeps shrinking
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
According to ConsumerScan data from GfK Hungária, 87 percent of households bought sausage or salami last year, 3 percent more than a year earlier. However, in the past couple of...
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Wine festival in Buda Castle
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
Buda Castle Wine Festival is organised by Hungarian Viti- and Viniculture Non-profit Kft. The 19-year-old event’s objective is to make people acquainted with the best Hungarian and foreign wines. Wine...
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Warm weather brought elevated prices
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
Analysts were somewhat surprised by the moderate increase in inflation in June. According to KSH’s quick report, consumer prices climbed by 0.2 percent from May and were 5.3 percent higher...
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Rice turnover concentrates and the 501-1,000-gram format is dominant
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
Retail sales of rice diminished by 2 percent in value and by 3 percent in volume in the April 2008-March 2009 period. According to the Nielsen Retail Index, the size...
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The revolution of mobile technology
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
‘Mobile technology revolutionises the relationship between the business sphere and consumers!’ was the motto of the first GS1 MobileCom Day conference where experts introduced the latest mobile applications. GS1 member...
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New on-line application to calculate ecological footprints
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
BASF developed an Internet-based eco-efficiency measuring system, which makes it possible for users to examine the environmental impacts of products, for instance shopping bags. New products can be easily and...
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Emergency alert off
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
According to a forecast by GKI Gazdaságkutató Zrt. and Erste Bank, production will grow the most this year in those sectors which sell their products or services to foreign markets....
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Growing diversity on the rice and flour market
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
Eating in restaurant less often could have entailed an increase in flour sales, but market players’ opinion is that demand remained stable. – The fact that flour sales did not...
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GINNT EXPO – DIGITALEXPO – SIGNEXPO: Intelligent business solutions
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
Visit the GINNT EXPO (Global Innovation Technologies Expo) in Budapest’s Syma Event Centre on 15-17 September 2010. This year DIGITALEXPO and SIGNEXPO will accompany the main event. The three exhibitions...
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The Farmer Expo opened in Debrecen
Date: 2010-08-27 00:05:02
With the participation of three hundred domestic and foreign exhibitors, the country's largest annaul agricultural, food and horticultural exhibition, the Farmer Expo opened its gates in the agri-centre of the...
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The Farmer Expo opened in Debrecen
Date: 2010-08-27 00:05:02
With the participation of three hundred domestic and foreign exhibitors, the country's largest annaul agricultural, food and horticultural exhibition, the Farmer Expo opened its gates in the agri-centre of the...
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Failing to catch the consumer groups, for ten years now
Date: 2010-08-27 00:03:29
The state offices are incapable against consumer groups that are offering loans, seem like services. Only the Competition Authority scans them. Sometimes prohibits and fines, because of misleading advertising slogans,...
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Failing to catch the consumer groups, for ten years now
Date: 2010-08-27 00:03:29
The state offices are incapable against consumer groups that are offering loans, seem like services. Only the Competition Authority scans them. Sometimes prohibits and fines, because of misleading advertising slogans,...
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Hungary's best sommelier
Date: 2010-08-27 00:03:28
On the Friday finals of the 17th Hungarian Sommelier Championship, that will be held on 26th and 27th of August Hungary's best sommelier will be decided. The sommelier (cup-bearer) is...
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Harvest to start
Date: 2010-08-27 00:01:55
The winemakers are optimistic, over this year’s wine harvest, which is expected to be smaller than the average, but in case of long fall, top wines may born from the...
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Harvest to start
Date: 2010-08-27 00:01:55
The winemakers are optimistic, over this year’s wine harvest, which is expected to be smaller than the average, but in case of long fall, top wines may born from the...
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