Events
Women are more likely to try new products
Date: 2009-04-24 05:09:35
Special offers do not only attract female customers: in fact more than seventy-five percent of netsurfers above 18 prefer buying special offer products – VMR research by NRC Market Research...
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State Printing Company winning 66 million HUF for nanotechnological improvments
Date: 2009-04-24 05:06:52
The 66 million HUF won by the State Printing Company is going to be spent on nanotechnological devices to fight agains the black market by recognizing false prints. „This new...
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The biggest hypermarkets offer more jobs
Date: 2009-04-24 05:04:40
Even though most companies needed to decrease the number of their employees, Tesco has just announced that they are about to make 26 thousand new workplaces available worldwide, while Wal-Mart...
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Seminar about the marketing and packaging of pork
Date: 2009-04-24 03:10:12
Picturing the Future of Pork is a seminar taking place on 3rd and 4th June in Paris, with a major focus on pork production packaging and marketing. Specialists from across...
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The end of recession in Hungary is still far ahead
Date: 2009-04-23 03:54:02
The end of the recession is not to be seen in the near future, and weakening of forint may cause another wave of insolvence – a new analysis by the...
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People do more to preserve their health during the crisis
Date: 2009-04-23 03:51:12
Customers appear to be more health-conscious throught the recession: people pay more attention to strenghtening their immune-system and trying to stay fit – says a new GfK LHS HealthCare research...
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Americans drink more since the crisis
Date: 2009-04-23 03:36:36
People seem to drink more since the crisis: the USA sees a 1.4 percent increase in volume when it comes to alcoholic beverages – a new research by AC Nielsen...
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Coffee sells well, but roasters are not happy with the competition between retailers
Date: 2009-04-23 03:35:34
German coffee roasters are increasing sales as the coffee culture becomes fashionable but a retail price war puts them under huge cost pressure, the head of Germany's coffee industry association....
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A conference on electronic invoicing
Date: 2009-04-23 03:31:32
ECR Hungary opens its EDI e-invoice conference on 6th May in Budapest. Electronic invoicing does not only spare people extra expenses, but is also an environment-friendly solution. Paper-based invoicing systems...
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auction site on the market with free uploads
Date: 2009-04-23 03:12:23
The seller doesn’t need to pay anything, there are no listing,-or commission payment costs – the operating manager of Eden-Design pointed out. According to operating manager Richárd Balogh, the portal ...
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Defining what is considered to be a Hungarian product is a shaky area
Date: 2009-04-22 04:55:54
Not even the recently introduced Food Codex defines properly what is considered to be a Hungarian product and whether items made of Hungarian ingedients fall into this category or not...
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Children's taste is less sensitive to sweets, so they eat more chocolate
Date: 2009-04-22 04:29:55
Whilst the sense organs are fully functional from birth onwards, perception is a matter of practice. Sensory tests at TTZ Bremerhaven have shown that other benchmarks apply for children than...
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A crisis-resistant marketing tradeshow
Date: 2009-04-22 04:27:28
PROMOTION is a tradeshow organized by HUNGEXPO Ltd., introducing and promoting new, crisis-resistant and efficient marketing and communicational technologies and strategies. In spite of all doubts, recession may have a...
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Everyone in Europe consumes too much
Date: 2009-04-22 04:20:42
If people switched more of their consumption from animal to plant-based food there would be a smaller impact on the environment. A paper in the International Journal of Epidemiology by...
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Wine-producers afraid of changing rules of contribution fee
Date: 2009-04-21 07:24:56
Wine-producers strongly disagree with the new plans affecting wine-laws, bringing about changes in the field of circulation-contribution fee. The main goal of the contribution is to gather money for local...
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A growing interest in social shops, a new store in Miskolc
Date: 2009-04-21 07:11:10
A new social shop has just opened in Miskolc, the nineteenth in the country already, where products come directly from the growers. Prices are lower than usual in these so...
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G8-G5-meeting in Italy: commercial limits loosening
Date: 2009-04-21 07:08:22
Debate at the first meeting of farm ministers from G8 and G5 states has shifted towards improving food security. Food protectionism, as exercised by both rich and poor countries in...
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Hungarian Agraracademy last weekend
Date: 2009-04-21 06:59:59
Representatives of Hungarian agriculture and food industry gathered for a two-day long program last week in Pápa. According to József Gráf agricultural and rural development minister, 2010 is going to...
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Exxon Mobil overtakes Wal-Mart to top Fortune 500
Date: 2009-04-20 03:47:54
Exxon Mobil Corp. unseated Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in the 2009 Fortune 500 list, shrugging off the oil price bubble and weathering what the magazine called the worst year ever for...
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Nearly one billion euro sales on the Romanian beer-market
Date: 2009-04-20 03:04:50
The four multinational companies of the Romanian beer-market are closing a year with a nearly one billion euro sales – as announced in the Friday issue of Ziarul Financiar. Eighty...
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Domestic FMCG market turndown in Q4 in 2008 and in the first two months of 2009
Date: 2009-04-17 03:21:13
Daily consumer-products value has rosen faster than inflation, yet in October when worldwide economic crisis had been announced, the market fell back with 3.7 percent – a survey called Commercial...
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Garantiqua raising guarantee limit to 90 percent
Date: 2009-04-17 03:18:26
Garantiqa Hitelgarancia Ltd. has raised its guarantee limit from 80% to 90% for companies whose loans do not exceed their annual payroll costs, and the EU has accepted the company's...
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Lack of poultry-products on the Hungarian market
Date: 2009-04-17 02:59:16
Deficiency may take shape in the next months when it comes to certain chicken products on the domestic market as inland demand for certain poultry meats is getting more and...
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Prices falling in Spain, too
Date: 2009-04-16 04:17:42
Prices have been confirmed to have fallen in Spain for the first time in March, down by -0.1% in the annual IPC released by the INE, National Statistics Institute. The...
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At least eight organic farmers a month are quitting their scemes
Date: 2009-04-16 04:14:12
At least two organic farmers a week are leaving the movement as consumer demand for premium food stagnates and costs rise – according to The Guardian1s article, this tendency continues....
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Senior citizens and young people are not likely to change their shopping habits
Date: 2009-04-16 04:07:10
With the latest news showing that most Americans are continuing to hold back on spending, it looks as if Gen Y and senior citizens may be the exceptions, according to...
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Food-to-Go shoppers say quality is more important than price
Date: 2009-04-16 03:53:54
Shoppers who buy food and beverages to go are more concerned about quality and freshness than price – according to a new consumer trends report released by United Kingdom-based IGD....
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Agricultural Chamber says a good crop is to be expected
Date: 2009-04-16 03:50:25
Due to the sudden warm spring, nearly all hosts involved in agriculture have fallen behind with their work to do, including plant-protection – the Hungarian Agricultural Chamber has pointed out....
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Increased interest in Real Vienna trade fair
Date: 2009-04-15 09:55:48
Real Vienna, the international trade fair for commercial and industry properties opens on 26th and 28th May this year, for the fourth time. The trademark of the Real Vienna and...
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Online marketing blooming in Hungary
Date: 2009-04-15 09:50:12
2008 saw a 7 percent increase in the amount of money spent on advertisements, with online marketing gaining a 10 percent part of the entire market – Hungarian Commercial Association...
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