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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Increasing public demand for cheap products
Date: 2009-12-03 00:03:55
According to the datas of GfK Hungária Market Research Institute; in the third quarter of 2009, the households purchased recommended daily products 1.3 percent lower than a year earlier. However,...
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Domestic food retail sales increased in value, decreased in volume in the third quarter
Date: 2009-12-03 00:03:42
According to Nielsen market research company; with Hungary food retail sales volume decresed in nine European countries in the third quarter, compared to last year’s July -September. In Hungary, the...
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SPAR became ” This year’s committed dealer of Hungarian goods”
Date: 2009-12-03 00:03:40
The SPAR Magyarország Kereskedelmi Kft. won ” This year’s committed dealer of Hungarian goods” prize of Magyar Termék Nonprofit Kft. on the professional competition of Progressive Magazine on 27th November...
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We like Hungarian products in vain
Date: 2009-12-03 00:03:21
It seems difficult to carry out the goal that the proportion of imported foods should be reduced to 20 percent, on the shelves of the domestic stores. The share of...
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Thinking of you Tibi – with love
Date: 2009-12-03 00:02:35
The Bonbonetti Group would like to cause delight with specific surprise to the residents of children homes. Bakáts Tibor Ambassador of Tibi Chocolate and Jóban Rosszban stars – Végh Judit,...
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Hungarian goose thigh will disappear from IKEA restaurants
Date: 2009-12-03 00:01:02
According to the German news agency the DPA; Hungarian goose thigh will disappear from the restaurants of the Swedish furniture group. Four Paws strikes again on the Hungarian goose breeders:...
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Tesco stores are preparing for Santa Claus
Date: 2009-12-03 00:00:55
The all available chocolate Santa Claus figurines would enfold the road between Budapest and Siófok, if we could put them together side by side. The giant supermarket chain is waiting...
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The COOP Santa Claus Minitrain is in Szolnok again
Date: 2009-12-03 00:00:25
The COOP Santa Claus Minitrain arrived to Szolnok for the third time. Like in the previous years, the COOP Santa Claus Minitrain operating on 3rd and 4th of December in...
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Veszprém Lapterjesztő Ltd. awarded by ”Pegasus 2009 Prize”
Date: 2009-12-03 00:00:12
The Pegasus Prize, which is a prestigious recognition of the most dynamically developing companies, was allocated for the second time on an exclusive gala, held in the Chain Bridge Palace...
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We are facing a money saving Christmas
Date: 2009-12-02 00:07:07
The Christmas season in the United States starts each year, the Friday after Thanksgiving day. The Equilor Investment Ltd. examined how the Christmas shopping season can evolutate in Hungary and...
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New seed plant in Szenttamás
Date: 2009-12-02 00:06:12
The new seed processing plant of the Törökszentmiklósi Mezőgazdasági Zrt. was handed over, which was partly financed by MFB Zrt. Due to the improvements, a modern workshop and a factory...
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Eurozone’s unemployment rate reached its 11-year peak
Date: 2009-12-02 00:05:11
In the Euro-zone, the seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate is currently 9.8 percent, stagnaiting on its 11-year peak level in October, after the September rate was modified from 9.7 percent to 9.8...
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Hard Rock Cafe arrives in one and a half year
Date: 2009-12-02 00:04:12
The first unit of Hard Rock Cafe will open on the spring of 2011, at the corner of Vörösmarty square, in the former BÉT-palace on thousand square meters. The lease...
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GVH would pay tracking fee
Date: 2009-12-02 00:03:08
According to a law proposal; In the future 1 percent of the imposed fine, but not more than 50 million HUF would be given to the person who provides evidence...
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Year-end mall handover rush
Date: 2009-12-02 00:01:25
While less shopping centers are handed over this year, than in the last year, at the end of the year, malls are handed over; one after the another in Europe....
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One giant leap in the Chinese credit card debt
Date: 2009-12-02 00:00:35
According to the report of the Chinese central bank; The over six months credit card debts more than doubled in the first three quarters of the year in China, compared...
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New Lidl opens in Győr
Date: 2009-12-02 00:00:15
Lidl’s third store in Győr will open on Szabadhegy in the neighborhood of the Bilux Headquarters. This year, the German network opens its third store in Győr. The first store...
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The number of dangerous products are growing due to the crisis
Date: 2009-12-01 00:04:51
Although there is no accurate measurement and assessment of the impact of the crisis, in the market of counterfeit products, the turnover of the non authentic products shows an increasing...
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Environment protection product fee: a lump sum, instead of the more complex solution
Date: 2009-12-01 00:03:01
From January agri-producers can pay their environment protection product fee, product registration, record keeping, reporting and payment obligations with lesser administration, as a lump sum – thanks to the legislative...
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