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More colour in domestic market of decor cosmetics
Date: 2008-06-27 08:00:00
Hungarian women tend to use less make up than women in neighbouring countries. Mainly foundation cream and mascara are used, while coloured products like lipstick are not very popular. According...
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Cooking oil producing highest price rise
Date: 2008-06-27 08:00:00
The average rise in consumer prices was 0.3 per cent in April. Prices were 6.6 per cent higher than in April 2007. Food prices were up by 1.4 per cent...
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Great Loss reaching its objective
Date: 2008-06-27 08:00:00
The topic at the meeting of Trade Marketing and Sales Klub held on 5. June was the peculiarities in the marketing and trade marketing of low calorie and health products....
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NESPRESSO coffee machines in retail chains
Date: 2008-06-27 08:00:00
In addition to the showroom in Andrássy út, the full range of NESPRESSO coffee machines has also been available in Saturn and Media Markt stores since June. Nine Budapest stores...
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Hygienic, multiple layer packaging from plastics
Date: 2008-06-27 08:00:00
Plastics are the most commonly used packaging material for food, accounting for 50 per cent of all packaging materials in Hungary, in terms of volume. Plastics are used in three...
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Food industry in recession
Date: 2008-06-27 08:00:00
Industrial production was up by 4.3 per cent in March 2008, compared to the same month in 2007. Industrial production was 6.9 per cent higher in the first quarter of...
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VIII. Univer Business Golf Championship
Date: 2008-06-27 08:00:00
The idea of organising a golf championship for prominent members of the business community was conceived seven years ago. Both active golfers and leading business people open to the idea...
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Revolution in self service
Date: 2008-06-27 08:00:00
According to a 2008 survey conducted by BuzzBack Market Research for NCR Corporation about consumer attitudes towards self service solutions, 67 per cent of French, German, Italian, Spanish and English...
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Foreign trade of agricultural products with question marks
Date: 2008-06-27 08:00:00
According to KSH data, our agricultural export expanded almost twice as dynamically as overall export in 2007, achieving record breaking revenues of more than EUR 4.8 billion. Imports totalling EUR...
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Decrease in the EU as well
Date: 2008-06-27 08:00:00
Retail sales were down by 0.4 per cent in the EUR zone and by 0.7 per cent in the EU-27 zone in March, compared to February. According to Eurostat data,...
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IBM fights queues
Date: 2008-06-27 08:00:00
IBM has launched a self service cash register system under the name “Anyplace Checkout”. Customers use hand scanners to read bar codes when products are placed in the shopping cart...
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National shop windows
Date: 2008-06-27 08:00:00
Most countries spend a lot of money on marketing support for their food products in foreign markets. Methods are diverse. In some countries, a government organisation is in charge of...
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Positive balance for foreign trade
Date: 2008-06-27 08:00:00
Exports totalled HUF 6,394 in January-April 2008, while imports amounted to HUF 6,309. The volume of export was up by 19 per cent compared to April 2007, while imports grew...
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Oily seed plant in Foktõ
Date: 2008-06-27 08:00:00
The plant to be built by the Glencore group will be the largest facility of its kind in Hungary with an annual capacity of 600,000 tonnes. Construction is expected to...
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Region marketing
Date: 2008-06-27 08:00:00
Not only countries, but regions may also use collective marketing. The Spanish region specialising in agriculture and the food industry, Castillia-Leon is a good example. Many synergies exist between government-level...
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Higher price for livestock as well
Date: 2008-06-27 08:00:00
The prices of agricultural products were up by 38.1 per cent in March 2008, compared to March 2007. The prices of plant products were up by 52 per cent, while...
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Vonalkód Rendszerház at this year’s Industria
Date: 2008-06-27 08:00:00
Vonalkód Rendszerház Kft, a leading player in the Hungarian automatic identification technology market presented its latest innovations at this year’s Industria exhibition. In 2008, they became the official distributors of...
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Aperitif a la française celebrating its fifth birthday
Date: 2008-06-27 08:00:00
The event called „Apéritif a la française” started its world tour on 5. June. It is held at the same time in 24 countries and serves to present the full...
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Private labels playing growing role
Date: 2008-06-27 08:00:00
According to data from the ConsumerScan survey of GfK Hungária Piackutató Intézet, the market share of private labels continued to grow in the FMCG market in 2007. In the first...
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Széchenyi Card 2 launched
Date: 2008-06-27 08:00:00
The two year Széchenyi Card 2 was launched by KA-VOSZ ZRt in co-operation with its partner banks, Hitelgarancia ZRt, and the Ministry of Economy and Development on 2. June. This...
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An efficient foreign legion
Date: 2008-06-27 08:00:00
Many people believe that the only purpose of import is to flood our stores with cheap products. However, appropriate quality products are often simply not available in the domestic market....
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Traditional stores till strong in Poland
Date: 2008-06-27 08:00:00
Though the number of hyper markets is growing in Poland, their market share is shrinking. At the same time, supermarkets and discount stores have increased their market share. Traditional stores...
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Bottled responsibility
Date: 2008-06-27 08:00:00
Corporate social responsibility serves as the basis for not only long term planning and corporate strategy but it is also a criteria for the evaluation of management performance in Coca-Cola...
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Adapting to local conditions
Date: 2008-06-27 08:00:00
According to an analysis prepared by the Budapest Chamber of Commerce and industry (BKIK) last year, the general marketing of multinational companies is prevalent in Hungary. Advertisements lack local features...
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Where is the Hungarian retail sector heading?
Date: 2008-06-27 08:00:00
A study has been prepared about the future prospects of the Hungarian retail sector by the consultants of PricewaterhouseCoopers and the students of Corvinus University. It is foreseen as a...
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Hungarians Drunk More Milk
Date: 2008-06-27 00:00:00
In the first quater of 2008 the milk consumption grow, but people buy less „light” 1.5% milk and because of price, more 2.9% milk. According to GfK's ConsumerScan research the...
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Domestic sales prices of industry rose by 11.7%
Date: 2008-06-27 00:00:00
Export sales prices of industry, measured in HUF, decreased by 2.2% compared to the previous month and slightly, by 0.1% compared to the corresponding month of the previous year. ...
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Environmental Friendly Companies are looking for!
Date: 2008-06-26 00:00:00
In the last six years 56 organisation with 67 tenders take part at the Environmental Economy Award. In this periode HUF 14.7 billion was saved by environmental friendly business solutions....
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New tax stamp for alcohol drinks from July
Date: 2008-06-26 00:00:00
The inspector can control the information on the tax stamps with a laptop and a bar-code reader direct in the store. After the electronic data recording the product's way...
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It isn't worth not to pay the TV tax
Date: 2008-06-26 00:00:00
The penalty is insignificant, but it has no sense therefore to come tax authorithy's horizon. After nowadays rules TV tax must to pay for Hungarian Tax Authority, but first...
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