Events
Counterfeit Trade Is Growing Worldwide
Date: 2007-06-08 00:00:00
Trade in counterfeit and pirated goods across national borders totaled at least $200 billion in 2005. „Trade in counterfeit goods is a big problem and getting bigger," says John Dryden,...
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Hungarian drunk more beers in 2006
Date: 2007-06-07 00:00:00
68 % of the sold 7,152 hectoliter was traditional beer. Although the tax costs, the energie- and raw material prices growth, the hungarian beer industries has a positive balance for...
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Season products on Lehel Market
Date: 2007-06-07 00:00:00
AMC, Hungarian Agromarketing Centre sets up an exhibition with tast from hungarian season fruits and vegetables in the capital. Between 6-15 of June daily 18 different vender shows their products...
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Stronger food and drug safety controlls in China
Date: 2007-06-07 00:00:00
China has released food and drug safety goals for the next five years, promising stronger surveillance and export controls that officials say will help improve China's international image and relations....
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The Hungarian shop more often, but give the same money as last year
Date: 2007-06-07 00:00:00
Trade brands growth, first of all in discountstores – according to Nielsen newest research. The number of fmcg stores decreased last year from 23086 to 21959, their income was 3-4%...
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Irish soft drinks pass safety tests
Date: 2007-06-06 00:00:00
Irish soft drinks manufacturers have responded to a new health scare by having their products tested by Irish and EU food safety authorities. The Beverage Council of Ireland (BCI)...
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EU overturns Sweden alcohol import ban
Date: 2007-06-06 00:00:00
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled Sweden's ban on private consumers importing alcoholic beverages is an “unjustified quantitative restriction on the free movement of goods” under European Union...
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The british organic foods market is attractive enough for american bio companies
Date: 2007-06-05 00:00:00
Whole Foods Market Inc., America's most successful organic supermarket chain, opens its massive flagship London store next week. Whole Foods — founded 30 years ago by Texan John Mackey, a...
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Hungarian trade deficit decrease
Date: 2007-06-05 00:00:00
Hungary's revised Q1 trade deficit came in at €280,4 million, €377,6 million less than a year earlier, the Central Statistics Office (KSH) said. Exports in Jan-March rose 18% to €16...
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Chinese organic food on the European borders
Date: 2007-06-05 00:00:00
An ever increasing assortment of organic produce from China finds its way onto supermarket shelves in Europe. Organic produce still accounts for only a tiny fraction of China's food consumption....
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Carbon points on british food
Date: 2007-06-04 00:00:00
The Government has taken the first step towards introducing carbon labelling for all products sold in shops. Plans have been unveiled to design a "carbon calculator" that could work out...
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There is demand for milkproduct in the world
Date: 2007-06-04 00:00:00
After the first quarter dates of hungarian milk section, the subsidence can be stop – according to Miklos Istvanfalvi, president of Hungarian Milk Marketing Board. Last year the milk output...
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Subsequent chinese poison for America – this time in toothpaste
Date: 2007-06-04 00:00:00
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned consumers to avoid using tubes of toothpaste labeled as made in China, because some toothpaste containing the poisonous chemical diethylene glycol (DEG). ...
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Frozen vegetarian food from Bohemia
Date: 2007-06-04 00:00:00
The israelien Tivall group, controlled by Nestle, built a new $30 million in in the Czech Republic, in the Krupka industries park. Tivall's frozen foods are sold in West- Europe,...
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Allergy-safe bakery produces from Ok Foods
Date: 2007-06-04 00:00:00
The UK's 'free-from' bakery market is benefiting from continuing innovation with the launch of new snacking options from leading niche producer. Ok Foods manufacturers snacks for consumers unable to eat...
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More informed consumer, faster decisions
Date: 2007-06-01 00:00:00
Consumer decision-making patterns, according to new consumer research released today by global public relations firm Weber Shandwick. Decision-making among global consumers has accelerated in recent years. Nearly two-thirds (63...
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Obesity white paper from European Commission
Date: 2007-06-01 00:00:00
The European Commission yesterday adopted a white paper setting out a European strategy on nutrition, overweight and obesity, including plans to review progress in three years. In the majority of...
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United Biscuits rolls out healthier crisps
Date: 2007-06-01 00:00:00
Following its decision to cut saturated fats from top snack lines, European biscuit and crisp manufacturer United Biscuits UK (UBUK) is venturing further into healthier reformulation with the relaunch of...
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By now Germans dont want to eat Polish meat
Date: 2007-05-31 00:00:00
The local sanitary services of the Berlin district of Moabit have qualified Polish meat as health-threatening. Initially, they did not even have to conduct sophisticated tests. The meat looked so...
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Alcohol and tobacco tax to rise in Estonia next year
Date: 2007-05-31 00:00:00
A previous decision, alcohol is to rise in price by ten per cent from the beginning of 2008. Now the government decided to raise the tax on alcohol by a...
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Father's Day Sales Expected to Reach $9.9 Billion in the US
Date: 2007-05-31 00:00:00
The NRF 2007 Father's Day Consumer Intentions and Actions Survey, conducted by BIGresearch, found that 76 percent of Americans plan to celebrate Father's Day. Those who plan to celebrate will...
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Manufacturers’ brands a hair ahead
Date: 2007-05-30 08:00:00
Among cosmetics in general, manufacturers’ brands have been quite successful against private labels so far, but among shampoos, they seem to be staging a true counter-attack. The market share of...
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Feeling like travelling again
Date: 2007-05-30 08:00:00
The number of nights spent at commercial places of accommodation by foreign and domestic guests in the first quarter of the year grew by 6 per cent compared to the...
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One out of two deodorants are still sprays
Date: 2007-05-30 08:00:00
The size of the deodorant market has exceeded HUF 12 billion. Retail sales grew by 9 per cent in terms o value in the March 2006–February 2007 period. 40 per...
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How to measure success?
Date: 2007-05-30 08:00:00
As Péter Biczó director of Price Waterhouse Coopers Kft. has pointed it out to us, different figures may be used to describe market success, according to different systems of accounting....
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Alimentaria: opening to the East
Date: 2007-05-30 08:00:00
Alimentaria, the food exhibition in Spain, one of the biggest European markets is becoming truly international. The event to be held between 10-14. March 2008 will be attended by more...
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Fragrance is not all that matters to women
Date: 2007-05-30 08:00:00
While sales of deodorants for women show steady growth from year to year, the same cannot be said about deodorants for men and this is not the only difference. Regarding...
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Croatian retailers resisting
Date: 2007-05-30 08:00:00
As lake Balaton cannot be compared to the Adriatic sea, retail business in Croatia is also hard to compare with the Hungarian retail sector. Hardly any Hungarian products can be...
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Hungarian and French gastronomy
Date: 2007-05-30 08:00:00
The Budapest office of the marketing and communication consultants Sopexa held a conference about gastronomic culture and its role in defining identity on 27. March. The conference was also the...
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Weight Control and Update competing
Date: 2007-05-30 08:00:00
We have taken a close look at the two best known lifestyle programs and the assortment of products sold under the two labels. According to a survey by GfK Hungária...
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