Company and Personal News
Gyulai and Csabai sausage have become protected
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
As of 18 June 2010, the European Commission authorised the use of PGI (protected geographical indication) marking to both Gyulai and Csabai sausages. The two products have entered the exclusive...
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New managing director for Duropack-Starpack Kft.
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
From August Dr Róbert Kocsis is the new managing director of Duropack-Starpack Kft. Mr Kocsis started his career at the Budapest affiliate of Planzer Transport AG in 1992. From 1999...
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The wine market is waiting for better times
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
– Sales and buying occasions of consumers moved drastically towards products supported with promotions. It is promotion campaigns that drive consumers to sales channels and products – Gábor Soltész, president-director...
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Garden stores flee forward
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
No precise data is available on the size of the domestic garden plant market, but experts’ estimate is that there are about 100 wholesalers in the country. Most of them...
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The background of the future
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
‘Future Store’ is not only about the equipment on the shop floor: an integrated IT system also forms part of it. These days when retailers try to keep only a...
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Chio fries products in healthier oil
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
From 1 July 2010, Chio Magyarország Kft. started using new frying oil blends in both of its plants. The new oil contains 30 percent less saturated fatty acid, so Chio...
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Innovation manager at GfK Hungária
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
From 19 July 2010 Péter Sári fills the position of innovation manager at GfK Hungária Market Research Institute. The 34-year old economist worked for Sanoma Budapest Zrt. as on-line marketing...
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Bestillo Pálinkaház distills 3,000 litres of pálinka
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
Despite bad weather conditions Gönc apricot, a product of protected geographical indication, yielded well (around 30 tons of good quality fruit) this year. Apricot pálinka will be bottled in November...
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Turnover increased in the country of supermarkets this June
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
In Austria food retail turnover grew by 1.5 percent in value in the June 2009-May 2010 period, compared with the same period a year earlier – informs Sigrid Göttlich, the...
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Hungaricum Corner in CBA Plaza
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
This July CBA Sopron Plaza opened the first Hungaricum corner where wines, pálinkas, sweets, fresh and preserved food products from Hungarian manufacturers can be found. Pricer electronic labels were used...
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Theodora: the streets are buzzing with their advertisements
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
In June 120 citylight posters in Budapest and 130 in the country advertised the mineral water company with the slogan ‘What makes you special is the distance that you have...
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József Bock is Royal Winemaker of the Year
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
József Bock won in the Royal Winemaker category of the Followers of Royal Cooks event in Nagyszakácsi. This is a special competition, where each of the six courses of last...
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The way a large retail chain does it
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
SPAR offers 600 types of wine in bigger stores. In their assortment there are three private label ranges: under the S-Budget name they sell four types of table wine, the...
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The Internet helps in buying medicine
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
Hungarian medicine and medicinal product buyers use the Internet to gather information more often than other nationals. A Nielsen survey (conducted in 55 countries) found that 34 percent of Hungarian...
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Pricer shelf label in the Hungaricum Corner too
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
CBA and Szintézis Informatika proved that they not only lead the way in innovation (CBA was the first food store to use electronic shelf labels), but also in promoting Hungarian...
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New on-line application to calculate ecological footprints
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
BASF developed an Internet-based eco-efficiency measuring system, which makes it possible for users to examine the environmental impacts of products, for instance shopping bags. New products can be easily and...
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Lánchíd Club also urges companies to help flood victims
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
Members of Lánchíd Club also decided to help the victims of flood. Their donations were transported to Felsőzsolca by trucks offered by Lekkerland. The two trucks transported nearly 60 pallets...
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Wine has become cheaper in retail chains, while organised retail is consolidating
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
According to the Nielsen Retail Index, wine value sales grew by 14 percent and volume sales were up 8 percent in the eight retail chains measured by Nielsen, in the...
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Shoppers who buy vodka are likely to put other drinks in the basket too
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
Nielsen’s Retail Index reveals that discount stores realised 17 percent of value sales in the 90 food categories measured in the December 2009-May 2010 period. As for the 60 household...
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Packaged expectations
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
According to data from the World Packaging Organisation (WPO), the global packaging material market represented a value of USD 564 billion in 2009, from which the consumer packaging market was...
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Hungarians economise on food, clothes and energy the most
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
This May Nielsen surveyed 27,000 Internet users in 48 countries. In Hungary 68 percent said they had changed their spending habits this spring, compared to the previous year; the international...
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First book published about displays
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
‘Inspire people to buy more!’ is the title of the first book about displays, published by Deutscher Fachverlag. The 300-page, English- and German-language work was introduced at the Deutscher Supermarktkongressen...
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The Spritzer Bus has hit the road
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
The idea came from the Community Wine Marketing Fund: promoting spritzer made from good Hungarian wines with a 2-month, nearly 2,000-km tour around the country. Early July ‘spritzer master’ András...
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Skills and thrills: METRO’s Customer Academy is about to open
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
Next to the Budaörs METRO store the chain’s Customer Academy will open in October. The Customer Academy’s head of department Piroska Balestra shared the details with readers of our magazine....
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The silent shop assistant
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
Trends in the packaging of daily goods are influenced by global processes in world society and economy, creating new opportunities and demand, but posing new challenges as well. Experts have...
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Washing in a café-like atmosphere
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
In cooperation by Henkel and Bosch, the first laundry-café opened in Munich. Wash&Coffee boasts a modern design and the staff consists of Henkel and Bosch experts, who offer help to...
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Crowd trampling
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
Wal-Mart, the world’s biggest retail chain has been fighting for months against paying a USD 7,000 fine, while they are spending millions of dollars to settle the case in the...
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Tamás Ács ask Péter Feiner
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
Question: ‘We keep facing changes every day: another crisis in the eurozone, plummeting sales, the landslide victory of a political party, the new government’s programme promising radical changes in priorities....
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Traditional shops increased their market share
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
According to the Nielsen Retail Index, 8 percent less salami and 4 percent less sausage was sold in value by retailers in January-April, in comparison with the same period in...
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Ready to be transported and put on the shelf
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
Global trends influence the Hungarian collective packaging market. One of the current trends is using lighter cardboard products, especially on developed markets. In Europe demand is constantly growing for below...
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