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Food sector waiting for reforms
Date: 2008-06-27 08:00:00
Well-known experts of the food business, including József Gráf. Minister of Agriculture and Rural development and Péter Futó, chairman of Futureal Holding and of the National Association of Industrialists and...
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Atradius credit insurance company of the year
Date: 2008-06-27 08:00:00
Atradius Credit Insurance has been awarded the title “Credit insurance company of the year 2008” by World Finance Magazine. Atradius provides reliable and effective services in over 40 countries....
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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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Night of placements
Date: 2008-06-27 08:00:00
An interesting night event was held by the Hungarian section of POPAI in Interspar Eurocenter, on 2. June. The event served as a training exercise for experts of POS promotional...
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Bio – our health and that of our kids
Date: 2008-06-27 08:00:00
The increasing popularity of bio food is a result of the two most important trends of our decade: health and wellness. This is one of the conclusions of the global...
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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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Manufacturing private labels no longer derogatory
Date: 2008-06-27 08:00:00
Over 1,600 companies from 70 countries attended the largest ever PLMA exhibition held in Amsterdam, on 27-28 May. We asked the managing director of Mona Hungary, Bernadett Strasser-Kátai about what...
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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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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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Guest list helps in preparations
Date: 2008-06-27 08:00:00
Detki Keksz is a regular exhibitor at PLMA. According to Mrs. Juhász, Marianna Lipusz, organisation has been excellent. The list of visitors sent by the organisers before the event has...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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In April the domestic retail turnover exceeded HUF 508 billion
Date: 2008-06-26 00:00:00
Compared to the previous month, the volume of retail sales increased by 0.4% according to seasonally and calendar adjusted data. According to calendar adjusted data, the volume of retail...
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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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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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1% fall in EU27's retail
Date: 2008-06-26 00:00:00
For the eurozone countries the decrease was by 2.9% compared with the same month a year ago. According to a Eurostat the highest increases were observed in Romania (18%)...
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EU farm union sees higher 2008-09 cereals harvest
Date: 2008-06-25 00:00:00
European Union farmers should harvest 293.32 million tonnes of cereals in the 2008-09 (July-June) crop year, up from the 254.99 million tonnes seen in 2007-08, EU farm union Copa-Cogeca said....
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Replacing HUF 200 note with coin in 2009
Date: 2008-06-25 00:00:00
The coin would be more practical and safe than the notes that generally need to be replaced every two years. Hungary's Monetary Council has decided on Monday to introduce a...
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German business confidence falls in June
Date: 2008-06-24 00:00:00
The index fell in June, dragged down by concerns over record high oil prices, the closely watched Ifo survey showed. The Munich-based Ifo institute's business climate index fell to...
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