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The same number of people buy more baking products
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
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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Shrinking real wages
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
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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Milk procurement price: dream and reality
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
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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Fifth stop of the Balkan Express
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
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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Orange took back the lead from peach
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
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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Foreign trade balance improving
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
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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New recognition: Hungarian Agricultural Economics Quality Prize
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
Soon a new trademark will appear on the packaging of a few food products: the Hungarian Agricultural Economics Quality Prize honours companies’ efforts to meet quality requirements, thereby setting them...
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A bit of vitamin for consumers and turnover
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
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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Temporary halt among non-alcoholic cold beverages
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
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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Sensormatic system at NorgesGruppen
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
Norway’s leading food retail chain, NorgesGruppen equipped its stores with Sensormatic® acousto-magnetic (AM) detection technology in order to cut down on stealth and increase profits. Sensormatic AM labels are smaller...
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The new trend – as nature planned it: fruit juice not from concentrate
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
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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Austrians trust their good old brands
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
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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The diamond of beer tapping
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
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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We remain loyal to fruit juices
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
The fruit juice market keeps shrinking, with the exception of 100% fruit juice’s volume sales, the segment’s market share improved by 2 percentage points in the first eight months of...
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Price/value ratio and the brand value of products and retail chains put in the limelight
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
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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Marvellous Coffee Exhibition
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
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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Wine parade according to retail channel at Prowein
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
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 first E-Mail Marketing Report was prepared
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
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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Trends in high turnover food products
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
Retail turnover growth of a few high turnover food products in October 2008-September 2009, compared to the previous such period (measured in value; in percentage)....
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Hungarian exhibitors at the world’s biggest confectionery fair in Cologne
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
Four Hungarian producers, Bonbonetti, Felföldi Kft., McScotland Kft. and Vida Kft will take part in the next International Confectionery Fair, the ISM. The event, held on 31 January-3 February 2010,...
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Among the last in Europe
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
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)
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
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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Solutions of the future in Düsseldorf
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
More than 200 exhibitors will participate in Düsseldorfs information technology fair EuroCIS, on 2-4 March 2010. The most important topics will be effective cash register solutions, payment systems, supply chain...
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Hungary increased prices the most
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
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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Increasing public demand for cheap products
Date: 2009-12-03 00:03:55
According to the datas of GfK Hungária Market Research Institute; in the third quarter of 2009, the households purchased recommended daily products 1.3 percent lower than a year earlier. However,...
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Domestic food retail sales increased in value, decreased in volume in the third quarter
Date: 2009-12-03 00:03:42
According to Nielsen market research company; with Hungary food retail sales volume decresed in nine European countries in the third quarter, compared to last year’s July -September. In Hungary, the...
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We are facing a money saving Christmas
Date: 2009-12-02 00:07:07
The Christmas season in the United States starts each year, the Friday after Thanksgiving day. The Equilor Investment Ltd. examined how the Christmas shopping season can evolutate in Hungary and...
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Eurozone’s unemployment rate reached its 11-year peak
Date: 2009-12-02 00:05:11
In the Euro-zone, the seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate is currently 9.8 percent, stagnaiting on its 11-year peak level in October, after the September rate was modified from 9.7 percent to 9.8...
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GVH would pay tracking fee
Date: 2009-12-02 00:03:08
According to a law proposal; In the future 1 percent of the imposed fine, but not more than 50 million HUF would be given to the person who provides evidence...
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Traditional Viennese Christmas Fair
Date: 2009-12-02 00:01:59
The traditional Christmas fair started in Vienna, with the lightening of the 27-meter tall pine in front of City Hall. The Austrian Chamber of Commerce (WKÖ) is looking forward optimistic...
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