Company and Personal News
Shaken, not stirred
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
After the increase in excise duty and VAT, spirit distributors spent most of 2009 with rethinking their price strategies. Although the number of spirit buyers is declining, the average price...
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Foreign trade balance improving
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
In January-August 2009, the volume of foreign trade was 17 percent lower in export and 23 percent lower in import than one year earlier. KSH’s quick report also states that...
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Six and a half million glasses of water for those in need
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
As a result of Procter&Gamble’s 3-month programme, more than 1.3 litres of clean, potable water was ”collected” by Hungarian consumers. Those who bought any product from the Aqua collection supported...
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The market of baking additives, dessert powders and fruit preserving agents expands
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
Powder product sales are on the increase, the market expanded by 17 percent in terms of value in August 2008-July 2009, to surpass the annual HUF 8 billion level. In...
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Temporary halt among non-alcoholic cold beverages
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
In the first six months, 10 percent less non-alcoholic cold beverages were bought in Hungary, reveals a joint survey by GfK Hungária and Agrár Európa Tanácsadó Kft. The world market...
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Together for a higher-level culture of wine
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
Zwack Izabella Borkereskedés and WSET (Wine and Spirit Education Trust) International Wine Academy signed an agreement of cooperation in November. WSET helps Zwack in shaping the company’s wine portfolio, offers...
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The rebirth of home baking
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
As a result of austerity measures, the positions of several food categories connected with home cooking/baking improved. Families do not buy as many ready-made cakes as before and spend less...
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Austrians trust their good old brands
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
According to Nielsen Austria, retail turnover growth in food products is losing speed in Austria. Last year food sales augmented by 4.8 percent, largely due to increased prices, but in...
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2009, the year of changes at Mary-Ker
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
All of Mary-Ker Kft.’s brand products were modernised and changed in the spirit of healthy eating, thanks to innovations in 2009. From October 2009, Mary-Ker Pasta Kft. produces and distributes...
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Kalifa now also offers Oriental flavours
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
– I am happy to say that our sales turnover in the cooking-baking segment in last October-December improved by more than 20 percent. Around Christmas, Kalifa ground poppy seed and...
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Price/value ratio and the brand value of products and retail chains put in the limelight
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
According to David Calhoun, Nielsen’s president/CEO consumers are getting used to changes caused by the crisis. They worry less and try to accommodate to the new situation. Spending habits changed...
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Trends in high turnover food products
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
Retail turnover growth of a few high turnover food products in October 2008-September 2009, compared to the previous such period (measured in value; in percentage)....
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The same number of people buy more baking products
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
Certain product categories are able to improve sales even in a negative consumer atmosphere, because at the time of crisis people spend more time at home. In January-July 2009, we...
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The first E-Mail Marketing Report was prepared
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
90 percent of active Internet users read approved commercial e-mail messages with an interesting subject, but an informal addressing is not always an advantage – reveals the E-Mail Marketing Report...
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Eckes-Granini’s management visited Hungary
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
SIÓ-ECKES Kft.’s headquarters in Siófok was the place where the shareholders, board members and executive directors of Eckes-Granini Group held their annual meeting. The aim of the visit was getting...
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Orange took back the lead from peach
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
Fruit juice sale are increasingly concentrated. The 401-2,500 m² channel improved its market share by 3 percentage points to 36 percent in October 2008-September 2009. In total, the market contracted...
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Among the last in Europe
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
According to a quick estimate by Eurostat, in August 2009, the volume of retail turnover kept falling, by 1.8 percent in the EU-27 and by 2.6 percent in the eurozone,...
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Decimating in the sties
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
There are fewer pigs in the sties than any time in the past 60 years, still their price fell by 15-16 percent in a week. Pig breeders are asking from...
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Strawberry Puppy and Honey Bunny
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
We are in the middle of celebrating the 20th birthday of Hungary’s oldest discount chain. After the Korda-Balázs celebrity duo in 2008, this year the campaign is built around the...
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A bit of vitamin for consumers and turnover
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
The juice category will surely not sleep the winter over, since these vitamin-providing beverages is about to enter the high season. According to Nielsen’s data, juice sales in September 2009...
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Hungary increased prices the most
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
In August 2009, consumer prices in the EU-27 were 0.6 percent higher than in August 2008, according to harmonised data. The biggest price increase was in Hungary with 5 percent,...
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Bonbonetti CEO awarded prize
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
On 16 October, CEO of the Bonbonetti group, Sándor Sánta was awarded the 2009 World Food Day prize by FAO. The Bonbonetti group has already participated in several charity campaigns...
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Riceland’s prize game continues
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
As part of Riceland’s loyalty programme, from 1 July to 31 December the company had a prize game the first part of which is now over. One lucky buyer took...
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The new trend – as nature planned it: fruit juice not from concentrate
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
More and more people follow the new trend all over the world: they love fresh pressed fruit juices. These juices do not contain preservatives, taste enhancers or additives. But first...
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Light at the end of the tunnel?
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
A regional study recently published by PricewaterhouseCoopers paints a slightly unexpectedly positive picture of the consumption markets of upcoming states. According to experts, most global companies realised before the crisis...
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Tchibo celebrates with planting trees
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
Tchibo celebrates its 60th birthday with planting 6 trees within the framework of its “Together for kindergartens” programme, making the environment more pleasant for the little ones. It is the...
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Fruit adventure in kindergartens with SIÓ VitaTigris
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
Think healthy! Foundation and SIÓ-ECKES Kft. launched a programme for the little ones. The programme itself fits into the daily skill-developing activities in kindergartens and teaches children about healthy eating...
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We remain loyal to fruit juices
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
The fruit juice market keeps shrinking, with the exception of 100% fruit juice’s volume sales, the segment’s market share improved by 2 percentage points in the first eight months of...
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Social responsibility awarded
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
Coca-Cola HBC Magyarország Kft. won the Social Responsibility prize at the Figyelő Top 200 Gala on 16 October. This year there were 24 applications for the prize. On behalf of...
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