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Hoventa – everything that is catering
Date: 2007-10-31 08:00:00
This year’s Hoventa attracted over 15,000 visitors. The main attraction was the WACS Global Chefs Challenge”, but the 4th Hungarian Barista Championship was also a very successful event. Over 150...
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Perfume market becoming more masculine
Date: 2007-10-31 08:00:00
According to data from MEMRB Market Research, the perfume market produced growth of 9 per cent in terms of value in the September 2006 – August 2007 period. Seven out...
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How does it work?
Date: 2007-10-31 08:00:00
Széchenyi Card is a form of financing for SME-s, with preferential interest rates subsidised by the government, which is intended to improve their liquidity. Access to this form of financing...
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Everything you want to know about your consumer
Date: 2007-10-31 08:00:00
Career & Style held its conference on 7. September, where current issues of the consumer market and possible future changes were discussed. In her opening presentation, the managing director of...
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Continuing concentration of margarine sales
Date: 2007-10-31 08:00:00
According to the Retail Index of Nielsen, the average price of margarine rose by 5 per cent in August-September, compared to the same period last year. Retail sales in terms...
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Who are the users?
Date: 2007-10-31 08:00:00
Széchenyi card accounted for a substantial part of financing agreements signed by SME-s with banks for a shorter than one year term. The largest part of the amount available is...
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CIES MARKETING FORUM
Date: 2007-10-31 08:00:00
7-8 November 2007, Brussels A unique speaker, Rob Reid, is coming from Los Angeles to Brussels to share his success story at the CIES Marketing Forum. He founded Listen.com, the...
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Lighter butter creams on bread
Date: 2007-10-31 08:00:00
While margarine continues to remain a basic product, consumers are becoming familiar with its alternatives. Creams which can be spread on bread not only compete with each other but with...
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Post/pre mix Colas continue to lose ground
Date: 2007-10-31 08:00:00
According to Nielsen data, HoReCa sales of carbonated soft drinks amounted to over HOF 55 billion in the August 2006 – July 2007 period, with the rate of decrease in...
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„A spark appears, and a miracle happens”
Date: 2007-10-31 08:00:00
A few interesting quotes from my notebook: „A commercial revolution is taking place today in China” Alex Thompson from ITN, host of the conference „ The grey economy accounts for...
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Marketing might become yeast for the baking industry
Date: 2007-10-31 08:00:00
Bakery products are popular in Hungary. Production is fragmented however, which means resources are not sufficient for powerful marketing. According to József Werli, secretary of the Hungarian Association of Bakers,...
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From grape to bottle
Date: 2007-10-31 08:00:00
2007 is really a difficult vintage. It was started with a very mild winter, early budding, but spring frost limited our crop at some vineyard-sites. Hot and dry summer made...
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How far have we come?
Date: 2007-10-31 08:00:00
We heard some success stories during our Business Days conference held in September. For example Pöttyös sales exceed that of Cola in some stores. However, price rises were in the...
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From killer of ideas to creative thinker
Date: 2007-10-31 08:00:00
The amount of knowledge to be learned from the three days of the Esomar conference equalled a university semester. The international organisation of market researchers celebrated the 60th year of...
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Our everyday bread from the neighbourhood store
Date: 2007-10-31 08:00:00
According to data from the GfK Shopping Monitor, small, neighbourhood stores account for the largest part of sales and their market share has increased from 48 per cent in 2004...
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Revival in the poultry market
Date: 2007-10-31 08:00:00
Agricultural Business Research Institute (AKI) continuously monitors developments in the world market of meat and poultry. Data from the Price Information System of KSH and AKI can be useful for...
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In house competition for baristas
Date: 2007-10-31 08:00:00
The in house barista competition of Piazza d’Oro was held by Sara Lee Hungary Zrt. in Dumas Restaurant of the French Institute. Sara Lee Hungary Zrt. has been playing a...
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Record breaking CMS in Berlin
Date: 2007-10-31 08:00:00
14 thousand people visited the largest trade exhibition of the cleaning industry held in Berlin in mid-September. 343 exhibitors from 25 countries attended the four day event. Prospects in Poland,...
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Bread dominant
Date: 2007-10-31 08:00:00
According to data from the Hungarian Association of Bakeries for 2006, per capita consumption of bread was 80 kilos with another 14 kilos of other bakery products. This proportion has...
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Economic growth at its lowest
Date: 2007-10-31 08:00:00
According to a forecast prepared by GKI Gazdaságkutató Zrt. with Erste Bank, economic growth will be slower this year than expected previously, while the rise of gross wages and the...
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Pálinka Promenade in Vigadó square
Date: 2007-10-31 08:00:00
The II. Budapesti Pálinka Promenade was held between 28-30. September, in Vigadó square. Only authentic palinkas, made exclusively from fruit were allowed to be presented. Products of Zwack Kecskeméti Pálinka...
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Vending machines heading east
Date: 2007-10-31 08:00:00
We have found at the Eu’Vend exhibition of the vending machine business held in Cologne, in September that Hungarians, Poles and Czechs had become important for the industry, which generates...
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Extreme wine labels spreading
Date: 2007-10-31 08:00:00
Labels make a big difference when customers do not have a definite idea of what kind of wine they are looking for. Today, the trend is to make labels simple...
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Corn prices: + 45 per cent
Date: 2007-10-31 08:00:00
According to a KSH report, the prices of agricultural produce were 10.4 per cent up in July 2007 compared to July 2006. Plant produce showed a price rise of 20.8...
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Prophecies and facts in Tapolca (part 1.)
Date: 2007-10-31 08:00:00
Despite negative market trends, the atmosphere was pleasant at the Business Days conference organised by Trade magazin and Lánchíd Club in Tapolca, on 26-28. September with nearly 300 guests. During...
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Internet banking not very popular among Hungarians
Date: 2007-10-31 08:00:00
According to an international, online survey conducted by Nielsen, Hungarian Internet users rarely use the net for banking transactions and use ATM machines less frequently than the international average. Only...
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Food boosting inflation
Date: 2007-10-31 08:00:00
According to a KSH report, consumer prices remained unchanged in August 2007, compared to July, but the rate of inflation was 8.3 per cent. Prices were on average 8.5 per...
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Growth to begin next year
Date: 2007-10-31 08:00:00
In his presentation about the state of the Hungarian economy, Dr. Gábor Karsai Gábor, deputy general director of GKI, had words of encouragement for the audience, pointing out that the...
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How is the banking sector?
Date: 2007-10-31 08:00:00
The number of banks per HUF one million is between 3-4 in Hungary, which is around the international average. The leading seven banks (OTP, K&H, MKB, Erste Bank, CIB, Raiffeisen,...
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Retail turnover of food continues to shrink
Date: 2007-10-31 08:00:00
The shrinking of retail turnover continued in July. According to a KSH report, sales were 4.2 per cent down in July 2007 compared to July of 2006 and also showed...
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