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Identification, control, product suggestion: the future has arrived
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
One of the key drivers of consumer behaviour is distrust that is rooted in fear from the unknown. Providing consumers with precise and credible information could alleviate this distrust –...
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Falling prices in the meat sector
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
The Agricultural Economics Research Institute (AKI) continuously monitors and publishes world trends in poultry and fruit/vegetable products. Their last report reveals that the production price of domestic pork fell by...
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Frozen products are waiting for the market to thaw
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
2009 was the year when consumers started spending more time in the kitchen and spending less eating out. Dr József Losó, the CEO of MIRSA Zrt. completely agrees. He saw...
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Machine on the body
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
Adwalker, a wearable digital screen that is perfect for communication, data registration and measuring has reached Hungary. The 4-kg device consists of two ergonomic monitors built in a vest and...
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Few fruits and vegetables were profitable
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
Last summer brought hailstorms and drought, the damages amounted to billions of Forints. Due to the economic crisis the sector lost markets. Only watermelon and white paprika did considerably well....
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Metro, TESCO and Co-op have already realised…
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
Mistakes occurring in the supply chain are often the result of partners not communicating correct data to each other about the products. The retail chains mentioned above have already realised...
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Pasta and wine on the top of the import list
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
The head of the Budapest office of the Italian Institute for Foreign Trade (ICE), Alessio Ponz de Leon Pisani informed us that pasta, wine and olive oil were the most...
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CSR – what lies behind the letters
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
In 1987, the United Nations’ World Commission on Environment and Development established the following definition: ‘sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability...
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Tastemakers – quality at Packforum
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
On 21-22 October, Packoforum hosted the Tastemakers event where 70 participants represented 45 food service companies from Europe, the United States and New Zealand. Presentations at the seminar shed light...
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Two-digit decrease among frozen convenience foods and ready-made meals
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
ConsumerScan by GfK Hungária reveals that narrowing spending possibilities of households had a significant effect on convenience foods and ready-made meals as well. The market was expanding until 2007, when...
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Preserving industry produces less
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
Two thirds of the preserving industry is dominated by Hamé, Univer and Bonduelle. Last year they held back production by 15-20 percent. The canning segment’s annual sales revenue is HUF...
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Creative yearend
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
The end of the year was all about the holidays: an arsenal of decorational accessories lured customers and the impulse zone was full of seasonal products. Small household appliances and...
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Trade marketing toolbar – Display
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
What makes a display work? Why do some of them multiply sales while others remain practically invisible? Are their golden rules? What are the latest trends? To display means making...
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‘It is a pleasure to give’ campaign was a success
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
On 15-20 December 2009, it was for the 14th time that SPAR stores hosted the Hungarian Maltese Charity Service’s annual durable food-collecting campaign. 118 tons of food were collected in...
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We economise on pizza too
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
The frozen pizza category has always been price-sensitive and the market has been shrinking since 2007. Despite consumers’ spending more time with cooking at home, frozen pizza sales are not...
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The frozen food market contracted
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
According to GfK Hungária’s ConsumerScan, 67 percent of Hungarian households bought a frozen product (pizza, meat product, potato, vegetables) at least once in October 2008-September 2009, down 1 percentage point...
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Most people would prefer free Internet content
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
80 percent of Internet users would like free access to Internet contents; one third want free content without advertisements, but the majority would tolerate advertisements if access was free. In...
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Environmental product charge system changed again from 1 January
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
As recession hit different industries to a varying extent, actors in the packaging industry sensed the crisis differently. Those who produce packaging for daily consumer goods were affected less or...
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Visitor information
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
FOODAPEST International food, drink, food processing and hospitality trade fair • UKBA International trade fair for confectionery, bakery and gastronomy • 21-24 February 2010 • Venue: HUNGEXPO Budapesti Vásárközpont Budapest,...
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More expensive milk chocolate egg and rabbit figures are the most popular
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
Easter sweets sales are expected to be around HUF 2.3 billion-2.5 billion. According to the Nielsen Retail Index, seasonal turnover growth stopped in 2008 – in volume there was an...
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Baking industry concentrates further
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
While last year’s grain harvest was good, low buying prices were a disappointment to farmers. The baking industry has been concentrating for years; the number of small companies is declining,...
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Retail keeps shrinking
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
Retail sales continued to fall in October, informs KSH’s quick report. Volume sales of retail stores were down by 4.7 percent in the first t en months of 2009 and...
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It is rewarding to care about hair
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
Hair dye belongs to the smaller categories on the cosmetics market, but it is very important and it expands by 3-5 percent every year. No wonder, as many decide to...
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You can look and you can touch – Easter chocolate figures
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
After last year’s renewal, this year it is the turn of presenting the assortment in a spectacular fashion at Bonbonetti, the market leader in Easter chocolate figures production. According to...
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Pasta prices slightly reduced – turnover remains stable
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
Pasta is one of the most popular food products in Hungary. It ranks eleventh among the 90 categories measured by Nielsen, measured in value. Annual retail sales are above the...
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Fewer promotional leaflets and shorter promotional periods
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
According to GfK Hungária’s Leaflet Monitor, comparing the first nine months of the leaflet market in 2009 with the same period in 2008 shows that the number of leaflets published...
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The own branded products market is a 300 billion market
Date: 2010-02-12 00:02:03
Almost every fourth forints that the costumers spent, went on the purchasing of own branded products last year. This is approx. 300 billion HUF – sets Nielsen market research company,...
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Slowly the spring will come in the Hungarian economy
Date: 2010-02-12 00:01:45
The tempo of the decline in retail turnover can slow down, decrease will stop in industrial production and sales – indicates the publication of Ecostat Economic Research, called Mikroszkóp. According...
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Hungarian paprika in Japan
Date: 2010-02-12 00:01:11
Hungarian peppers are grown in Szolnok’s Japanese twin town: in Yuza. The vicinity of the town became an important pepper-growing area within the country, so there is a chance that...
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