Events

Retail in a bad patch

Retail sales continued to fall in August, in terms of volume. Sales turnover of retail stores was down by 4.2 percent in the first eight months of 2009 and by...

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An age group waiting to be discovered

At the last meeting of Trade Marketing Klub in 2009, the topic was consumption habits of the + 50 age group and their shopping potential. Zsuzsanna Hermann, Trade magazin’s editor...

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In terms of volume pálinka, in value bitters lead

Spirit retail sales are stable in terms of value, surpassing HUF 73 billion in October 2008- September 2009, just like a year earlier. However, Nielsen registered a 5 percent decline...

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Shrinking real wages

At enterprises employing a minimum of 5 people and at budgetary institutions, gross average wages were 1.3 percent higher and net average wages improved by 1.6 percent in the first...

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Macfrut 2009 – Innovation and global trends

On 9 October, the 26th Macfrut exhibition and fair closed its gates in Cesena, Italy. The first European-level summit of the fruit sector was also held at the 3-day event....

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Shaken, not stirred

After the increase in excise duty and VAT, spirit distributors spent most of 2009 with rethinking their price strategies. Although the number of spirit buyers is declining, the average price...

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Foreign trade balance improving

In January-August 2009, the volume of foreign trade was 17 percent lower in export and 23 percent lower in import than one year earlier. KSH’s quick report also states that...

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European symphony

Berlin, Germany. We are raising our glasses with Germans business partners to the anniversary of the collapse of the Wall. They are grateful to us Hungarians, but soon start to...

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From Hungarian salami to wild garlic

– This year’s Anuga showed that the food sector is capable of remaining stable even at the time of crisis, because people will always have to eat – Dierk Frauen,...

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The market of baking additives, dessert powders and fruit preserving agents expands

Powder product sales are on the increase, the market expanded by 17 percent in terms of value in August 2008-July 2009, to surpass the annual HUF 8 billion level. In...

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Temporary halt among non-alcoholic cold beverages

In the first six months, 10 percent less non-alcoholic cold beverages were bought in Hungary, reveals a joint survey by GfK Hungária and Agrár Európa Tanácsadó Kft. The world market...

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Tea pavilions and a giant cup in Budapest

The ambassador of tea, Stephen Twining visited Budapest on 7 November. From the second half of November, a Twinings car cruises the streets of Budapest to treat city dwellers with...

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Milk procurement price: dream and reality

On Sunday evening 250 decision makers from the milk sector gathered to discuss how to cope with the market disturbances caused by over-production. Ake Hantoft, president of Arla told that...

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The rebirth of home baking

As a result of austerity measures, the positions of several food categories connected with home cooking/baking improved. Families do not buy as many ready-made cakes as before and spend less...

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Austrians trust their good old brands

According to Nielsen Austria, retail turnover growth in food products is losing speed in Austria. Last year food sales augmented by 4.8 percent, largely due to increased prices, but in...

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Fifth stop of the Balkan Express

On 11-14 November, Agricultural Marketing Centre organised its 5th appearance in South East Europe, namely in Sofia. AMC participated in Interfood, the country’s biggest food event that comprises 6 trade...

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Kalifa now also offers Oriental flavours

– I am happy to say that our sales turnover in the cooking-baking segment in last October-December improved by more than 20 percent. Around Christmas, Kalifa ground poppy seed and...

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Price/value ratio and the brand value of products and retail chains put in the limelight

According to David Calhoun, Nielsen’s president/CEO consumers are getting used to changes caused by the crisis. They worry less and try to accommodate to the new situation. Spending habits changed...

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The diamond of beer tapping

On 15 October, Borsodi Sörgyár Zrt. organised the Stella Artois Beer Tapping Championship for the 12th time in Budapest’s Museum of Fine Arts. Twelve participants qualified for the final and...

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The same number of people buy more baking products

Certain product categories are able to improve sales even in a negative consumer atmosphere, because at the time of crisis people spend more time at home. In January-July 2009, we...

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The first E-Mail Marketing Report was prepared

90 percent of active Internet users read approved commercial e-mail messages with an interesting subject, but an informal addressing is not always an advantage – reveals the E-Mail Marketing Report...

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Marvellous Coffee Exhibition

Magyar Kávétársaság Kft. is organising the international Marvellous Coffee exhibition for the first time in pavilion D of the Budapest Fair Centre, on 23-25 April in 2010. Key actors of...

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Orange took back the lead from peach

Fruit juice sale are increasingly concentrated. The 401-2,500 m² channel improved its market share by 3 percentage points to 36 percent in October 2008-September 2009. In total, the market contracted...

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Among the last in Europe

According to a quick estimate by Eurostat, in August 2009, the volume of retail turnover kept falling, by 1.8 percent in the EU-27 and by 2.6 percent in the eurozone,...

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Warning! Traffic diverted! Business Days 2009 (Part 2)

On the morning of the second day at the Business Days conference of Lánchíd Klub and Trade magazine, held on 30 September-2 October in Tapolca, we examined how the crisis...

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A bit of vitamin for consumers and turnover

The juice category will surely not sleep the winter over, since these vitamin-providing beverages is about to enter the high season. According to Nielsen’s data, juice sales in September 2009...

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Hungary increased prices the most

In August 2009, consumer prices in the EU-27 were 0.6 percent higher than in August 2008, according to harmonised data. The biggest price increase was in Hungary with 5 percent,...

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Wine parade according to retail channel at Prowein

3,100 exhibitors from 45 countries, together with 35,000 visitors are forecasted to be present at ProWein in Düsseldorf, on 21-23 March 2010. Since food retail units offer a wine selection...

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The new trend – as nature planned it: fruit juice not from concentrate

More and more people follow the new trend all over the world: they love fresh pressed fruit juices. These juices do not contain preservatives, taste enhancers or additives. But first...

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Light at the end of the tunnel?

A regional study recently published by PricewaterhouseCoopers paints a slightly unexpectedly positive picture of the consumption markets of upcoming states. According to experts, most global companies realised before the crisis...

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