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Business Days 2008
Date: 2008-02-01 08:00:00
The Business Days 2008 conference is to be held jointly by Trade magazine and Lánchíd Klub again between 24-26. September this year, in Hotel Pelion, Tapolca....
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Black tea continues to fade in the market
Date: 2008-02-01 08:00:00
The market of tea is becoming increasingly colourful. Owing to the rapid changes in tea culture, green, herbal and fruit teas are challenging the once dominant black tea. Black tea...
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Budapest hotels: below average
Date: 2008-02-01 08:00:00
Commercial places of accommodation generated total gross revenues of HUF 209 billion in the January-October 2007 period, which is 4 per cent up, compared to the same period in 2006....
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EuroShop: all that is important for stores
Date: 2008-02-01 08:00:00
According to Szilvia Máté, representative of the Düsseldorf exhibition in Hungary, a record number of exhibitors will attend the EuroShop event to be held in Düsseldorf between 23-27. February. 55...
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Market of detergents above HUF 20 billion
Date: 2008-02-01 08:00:00
Retail sales of household detergents show continuous increase and have exceeded HUF 20 billion. Overall growth amounted to 4 per cent in the November 2006–October 2007 period. Sales of washing...
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Still minuses
Date: 2008-02-01 08:00:00
Retail turnover continued to shrink in October 2007. According to KSH data, sales were 2,7 per cent down in the first ten months of 2007, compared to the same period...
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United against obesity
Date: 2008-02-01 08:00:00
Lectures on educating people about health and fighting obesity in Europe have been delivered at the conference held by the Food, Lifestyle, Exercise (TÉT) Platform. TÉT is an organisation for...
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Scented and no stains
Date: 2008-02-01 08:00:00
The market of detergents shows continuous growth and innovation. Drugstores are still the places where most consumers go when looking for innovations. Consumers have less time to spend cleaning things...
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Hungarians are child-centred in bio
Date: 2008-02-01 08:00:00
According to a Nielsen survey conducted among Internet users in 46 countries, the most popular bio foods in Hungary are fruits, vegetables and eggs, like in the EU. While almost...
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Information, hunger
Date: 2008-02-01 08:00:00
Mella Frewen, general secretary of CIAA, expressed special appreciation at the press conference for the work of the Hungarian platform in introducing RDA labelling, as it is their mission to...
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Extraordinary snapshot – domestic food industry in 2007
Date: 2008-02-01 08:00:00
The well known and grave problems of the Hungarian food industry continued to exist in 2007 and no major positive breakthrough took place. Domestic purchasing power is in decline, while...
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Frost makes apple expensive
Date: 2008-02-01 08:00:00
The average price of agricultural produce was up by 34,4 per cent in October compared to the same period in 2006. According to KSH data, the average price of plant...
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Carrier and style: related notions
Date: 2008-02-01 08:00:00
Karrier és Stílus Kft. held a conference about the notions used in its name on 11. December. Mrs. Csík dr. Klára Kovács, managing director of Karrier és Stílus Kft. spoke...
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Has been better – will be better?
Date: 2008-02-01 08:00:00
Regarding last year, everybody agrees that it has been a difficult period and it’s far from being over. As a result of austerity measures, purchasing power and sales dropped, while...
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Food production in decline
Date: 2008-02-01 08:00:00
Industrial production was up by 5,9 per cent in October 2007 compared to the same month in 2006. According to KSH data, the volume of production was 8,6 per cent...
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Difficult year behind and ahead of us
Date: 2008-02-01 08:00:00
Last year was a difficult one as a result of austerity measures and decreasing purchasing power. Though exact figures are not available yet, the end of the year shopping frenzy...
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A European bronze for Belgium in discount stores
Date: 2008-02-01 08:00:00
There are only 8,000 food stores in Belgium which has a population equal in size to that of Hungary, where we have over 20,000. According to a Nielsen survey, even...
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Internet in focus
Date: 2008-02-01 08:00:00
Google held a conference on e-commerce with the Association of Electronic Commerce on 22 November, in Budapest. On-line marketing was the subject discussed in the morning with case studies about...
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Two giants battle in Hungary as well
Date: 2008-02-01 08:00:00
Two giants and gigantic competition. The battlefield is Europe and to some extent, the whole world. Aldi is present in ten countries in Europe, but it also has stores in...
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Bitter-sweet Belgian praline
Date: 2008-02-01 08:00:00
The Belgian GDP is USD 38,000 and economic growth is 3-5 per cent, but they have their problems too. Theoretically, the Walloons and the Flemish should live together in harmony....
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World of commerce in Hungary
Date: 2008-02-01 08:00:00
“World of commerce – Episodes from the history of Hungarian commerce” is the title of a book by Anikó S. Nagy published in December. The “World of Commerce” draws attention...
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Brands coming to life in stores
Date: 2008-02-01 08:00:00
Hostess promotions are the biggest “events” that take place inside stores. What are the details which need to be taken into consideration in order to make such events truly effective?...
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About 2007 and 2008
Date: 2008-02-01 08:00:00
In recent year, our prime ministers have picked up the habit of addressing the public in “State of the Union-style” about the year. This reminds me of the joke: “This...
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176 medals at HunDeszt 2007
Date: 2008-02-01 08:00:00
As the 6th of December was the day of palinka, results were announced at the Hun Deszt 2007 palinka competition where 220 spirits from 25 distilleries competed. 57 gold, 76...
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Withdrawal of sugar
Date: 2008-02-01 08:00:00
Many people believed that hard times were over for local producers of sugar in 2006, when Eastern Sugar closed its Kaba factory and handed back its production quota which accounted...
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Superior entertainment
Date: 2008-02-01 08:00:00
Organising events is an ancient activity which has matured over the centuries both in terms of technology and human resources. According to György Pártos, strategic director of Creamteam, success can...
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The secret of real wiener schnitzel
Date: 2008-02-01 08:00:00
Gathering information and being well informed is essential today, in our accelerated life. We must be familiar with the market we compete in and consumers are also increasingly familiar with...
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Gateway to world trade
Date: 2008-02-01 08:00:00
The Global European Food Industry Event of ECRM to be held between 9-11. March in Budapest is intended to help trading enterprises and suppliers in making contact. ECRM helps the...
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Looking for a way out
Date: 2008-02-01 08:00:00
Open and constructive discussion took place at the roundtable conference organised by the Milk Product Council and SOLE-MiZo. The 75 participants were trying to work out the best conditions for...
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Independent profession at last
Date: 2008-02-01 08:00:00
The Association of Hungarian Event Organisers was established in 1992, and has over 105 members at present. However, this activity was only issued a TEÁOR registration number of its own...
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