Events
ChocolateStory
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
These days one of the strongest consumer trends is transparency. US company Original Beans plants a tree after every bar of chocolate they sell. Documents in the packaging indicate the...
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Shoe care brands are strong
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
The Nielsen Retail Index registered 13 percent lower value sales in shoe care product retail, while volume sales were 20 percent lower in comparison with the previous year. Average price...
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Hungarian delegation in Paris
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Five people represented POPAI Hungary at the Marketing at Retail Show in Paris, where 215 stands received 15,800 visitors; there were 300 entries for the POPAI Awards – the results...
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Economic policy dilemmas
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
According to a forecast by GKI Gazdaságkutató Zrt. and Erste Bank, the Hungarian economy will stagnate in 2010 and a moderate growth is expected only in the second half of...
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Most people expect the growth of the Internet
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Hungarian Mediaindex, a survey by Marketing&Media and Ipsos revealed that 83 percent of those asked expect growing advertising revenues on the Internet for the second half of 2010. The heads...
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Gloomy Sunday?
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
The battle in the past 10 years between retail chains and trade unions about Sunday shopping seems to settle for a draw in Hungary. However, the debate continues on a...
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Hungarian POP contest
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
POPAI Hungary joins the international POPAI Awards series by announcing a competition for POP tools. The jurying will take place at the next Business Days in Tapolca. Winners will participate...
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In the developed world growth is already palpable
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
According to an analysis by credit insurance company Coface Hungary, in the first quarter of 2010 companies’ insolvency indicator augmented by 12 percent, compared with the same period in 2009....
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Surprising changes in online content consumption
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Data from the gemius/Ipsos Audience online audience measurement system shows that the Internet using habits of certain target groups and the character of consumed content has changed considerably. While the...
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Tracked fleets
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Many companies distribute solutions such as vehicle tracking system, satellite fleet management system or GPS fleet tracking. In everyday conversations GPS (Global Positioning System) means a navigation system installed in...
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Strengthening Forint, expanding food export
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
According to a preliminary estimate by KSH, our foreign trade surplus was EUR 374 million (HUF 103 billion) in February, up EUR 78 million (HUF 14 billion) from February 2009....
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Competing with the neighbours drives the garden product market
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Experts say that the development of people’s gardens depends on how much they earn and on their rivalry with neighbours. From year to year, the garden product market expands by...
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PDA and smartphone: about to merge
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
The market of PDA devices, which are capable of transmitting data directly from the store via the Internet, has been standing still for quite a while. Neither Microsoft nor Symbian...
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Agricultural prices augmented at the beginning of the year
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
KSH’s report informs that the production price index of agricultural products went up by 0.2 percent in February 2010, compared with the same period a year before. This February vegetable...
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Germans shoppers buy comfortably in a pleasant environment
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Edeka Group, the market leader in German food retail improved its turnover by 17 percent, compared with the previous year, and its sales revenue surpassed the EUR 39.6 billion threshold...
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Behind the scenes
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
The crisis generated cost efficiency measures and structural changes, which affected sales teams too. Work has been outsourced at several companies, either completely or in part. According to Ágnes Csiby,...
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Increasingly conscious decisions by shoppers
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Last year the complete turnover of daily consumer goods bought by Hungarian households remained stable in nominal value, in comparison with 2008. However, in terms of volume turnover lowered –...
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A stable yoghurt market with strong manufacturer brands
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Manufacturer brands strengthened their position in yoghurt retail sales: they improved by 1 percentage points in value (reaching an annual HUF 29 billion) and by 3 in volume against private...
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Down on your knees or standing up?
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
‘How many of you are convinced that win-win business relationships are good for you?’ 90 percent of people in the room raised their hands. ‘Your minutes are numbered!’ – said...
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The first quarter of the European food retailing was successful
Date: 2010-05-20 00:01:40
The recovery from the crisis continued in the food retailing of the developed European countries: store turnover increased by 4, percent in value and 1 percent in volume, compared to...
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The foreign suppliers are cautious with the Hungarian firms
Date: 2010-05-20 00:01:35
According to the Atradius Credit insurance; the rate of late and non payments is the hihest ever in Western Europe in early 2010, so businesses increasingly turned to claim managers....
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One shopping center for nineteen thousand Pécs inhabitants
Date: 2010-05-20 00:01:00
Among the five big cities of Hungary (Debrecen, Győr, Miskolc, Pécs and Szeged), the highest number of shopping centers are in Pécs, the least in Debrecen, Miskolc, and (yet) in...
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Goats and sheeps may escape from the electronic chip
Date: 2010-05-20 00:00:30
The European Parliament (EP), adopted the Hungarian amendment that the individual electronic identification (chip) should not be a mandatory in the cases of goats and sheeps under the age of...
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Consumer confidence is on its ten-month nadir in China
Date: 2010-05-20 00:00:20
In April consumer sentiment decreases for the second month, which can be associated with the government measures taken against economic overheating. China's consumer confidence index decreased by 1.3 points to...
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Several billion storm damages hit the agricultural sector
Date: 2010-05-19 00:01:45
The weekend rain caused several billion HUF damage to the country's agriculture. According to the Hungarian Chamber of Agriculture, more than 150 thousand hectares are under water. After the near...
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Butter has been getting more expensive for weeks now
Date: 2010-05-19 00:01:11
The price of butter increases for weeks now at the international markets, in some places the price rises were about 30 percent. The global demand for butter increases at the...
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Suppliers versus Multis: differencies between law and practice
Date: 2010-05-18 00:01:45
The food processors are preaparing for group complaint against the chains. According to the informations of Népszabadság; the National Federation of the Food Processors (Éfosz) requested datas from its members...
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Shopping malls: Do not close the shops on Sunday!
Date: 2010-05-18 00:01:30
The limitation of the opening hours on Sunday is not timely in the current situation – assessed the Hungarian Association of Shopping Centers (MBSZ) on its Friday meeting. The association...
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Hungarian households are on diet
Date: 2010-05-18 00:01:12
Public dieting continued in the first quarter of the year. People increasingly pay back their foreign currency loans, so their housing and other consumption purposes indebtedness have reduced. In the...
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The healthy lifestyle is getting more important at the workplaces
Date: 2010-05-18 00:01:00
According to the research of Nestlé; the graduate students and college students expect healthier lifestyle from their workplaces. The questionnaire responses suggests that, compared to 2009, the number of those...
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