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‘Let us do something for children together’ programme was a success in 2010

The ‘Let us do something for children together’ programme ended and HUF 18,482,473 was collected. Danone Kft. has been helping the rehabilitation and healthy eating of children with cancer for...

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Facing innovations

The facial care category managed to grow, but the market share of cheaper and private label products increased in this category too. Branded product manufacturers stepped up their efforts by...

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Consumers did not feel more inclined to buy in the summer either

According to KSH’s quick report, volume sales in retail were down by 4.7 percent in the first six months of 2010 and by 4.6 percent in June, compared to the...

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Demand is shifting towards higher lemon content

Lemon juice sales decreased in volume but increased in terms of value in the past period. Ágnes Chvojka, Maspex Olympos Kft.’s junior brand manager explained this with this year’s unfavourable...

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METRO helps children who suffer from hunger in the summer

Children’s Catering Foundation and METRO Hungary organised an awareness raising and donation collecting campaign in 4 cities and in the capital from 11 until 31 August, to help children in...

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New marketing director at McDonald’s

From 1 August Jörg Pizzera fills the position of marketing director of McDonald’s in Hungary. The Austrian executive started his career at Unilever and joined the McDonald’s team in 2006....

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Manly development on the body care market

The body care market can be divided into three categories: shower gels, deodorants and body lotions. In the first two categories versions for men are available in almost as high...

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The food industry was one of the losers again

According to KSH, in 13 sub-sectors of the processing industry 9 experienced volume growth. The third biggest sub-sector, food, beverage and tobacco production declined by 5.6 percent because of falling...

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40-percent lemon juice is the most popular

Nielsen Retail Index reveals that lemon juice retail sales grew by 4 percent in terms of value in December 2009-May 2010, compared to the previous period a year before. The...

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POS Média acquired majority ownership of Célcsoport Média

Europe’s leading in-store media company, POS Media Europe bought a majority share in Célcsoport Média Kft. Célcsoport Média and POS Media Hungary have been operating in the same field in...

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Herz products resurface on the shelves

Thanks to Bonafarm Group, Herz products find their way back to shops, less than six months after Bonafarm Zrt. brought the brand name. Nine products of the traditional high quality...

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Safety and closeness

Condom is one of the few product categories which were able to increase sales recently. László Pusztai, SSL Magyarország Kft.’s Durex category manager told our magazine that a large part...

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We continue to spend less on FMCG products

In the first half of 2010 households spent 0.5 percent less on FMCG products, compared with the same period a year before, revealed GfK Hungária’s Retail Analyses. This entailed a...

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At half-time

If somebody takes a closer look at the selection of wines Hungarian restaurants and wine shops offer, they would think we live in a prospering country with a large middle...

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Desgner waste containers all over the country

In September Öko-Kord Országos Nonprofit Kft. started planting its designer selective waste containers in food stores. Thanks to the new containers, people will be able to get rid of plastic...

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Spider monkeys instead of gorillas

In the past couple of years even the smallest sales details were decided in Wal-Mart’s headquarters. The recession changed everything, consumer demand has become much more diverse. As Doug Stephens...

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The paper tissue season is about to start

Paper products have been expanding slowly in terms of both volume and value. According to Zsuzsa Hunwald, Zewa’ marketing coordinator their products are of basic importance, so sales did not...

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‘It is ending precisely now…’ (Part 5)

This new, 6-part series by Trade magazin and GfK Hungária Market Research Institute focuses on price trends, pricing policies and consumer expectations in terms of price. The nominal value of...

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It is cheaper at home

The summer did not bring the long expected change, markets are shrinking and there is less money to spend. Fewer daily consumer goods are sold and the significance of home...

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Coop – Cipó-Ház in Szolnok

Coop Szolnok Kereskedelmi Zrt. and Cipó-Ház Kft. ceremonially opened their bakery in Zagyvarékas on 18 August. They make 45-50 products in the bakery, where 34 people will be employed –...

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MasterCard in the shop window

MasterCard appeared with interactive public space advertising surfaces for the first time, on the streets of New York, Chicago, Miami and Philadelphia. In busy retail zones they placed advertisements in...

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Autumn foot marketing from Scholl

Scholl will try to cheer up cloudy autumn days with launching a fashion advice website. The Internet site will help in finding the right shoes for different outfits, with guidance...

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Hungarians are rather optimistic: more of us see a way out of the crisis than last year

According to a Nielsen survey conducted in May, Hungarians are more optimistic than the international average: while in 48 countries 21 percent of people said their countries will leave the...

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We still love sweet wine

Each year, an average of 30-32 liters of wine we drink, we love sweet wines more. The premium drinks are mainly purchased as a gift – it was found out...

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GfK: the steps towards Hungarian health economy have failed

The researchers of the global trends, increasingly agree, that health economy will be the engine of the post-crisis growth and the new world order. Experiencing the difficulties of the system,...

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This year dynamic growth of world trade is expected

The World Trade Organization (WTO) revised upwards its growth forecast of this year's world trade turnover: growth this year will be a 13.5 percent instead of the 10 percent forecasts...

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The Váci street is the 37th most expensive retail space

The world's most prominent retail location has not changed over the past 12 months. The latest research of Cushman & Wakefield measured the highest rental growth in South America and...

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Targeted advertising messages from Twitter

The Twitter will soon introduce the concept of “promoted” tweet, which is similar to Google’s advertising mechanism. Twitter has currently 160 million users, and about one-fifth of them follow brand-or...

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Tesco's strategy: web stores all over the world

Tesco’s CEO candidate has announced that online retail sales will start next year in Poland, in the Czech Republic and then in Shanghai. Philip Clarke – who will take over...

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The 25th Jubilee SPAR Budapest International Marathon is ready to start

The greatest domestic running event, the 25th Jubilee SPAR Budapest International Marathon will be held on the 26th of September 2010. The SPAR is the main sponsor of the event...

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