Company and Personal News
New CEO at Kékkúti Ásványvíz Zrt.
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
From 1 September 2009, Henrik Gotterbarm is the new CEO of the market leading mineral water company. He has been working for mother company Nestlé Waters for 15 years, prior...
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They spent more on wieners
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
According to GfK Hungária’s ConsumerScan, Hungarian households bought 3 percent less wiener in the first eight months of 2009, compared to the same period last year. The average price per...
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Retail in a bad patch
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
Retail sales continued to fall in August, in terms of volume. Sales turnover of retail stores was down by 4.2 percent in the first eight months of 2009 and by...
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New recognition: Hungarian Agricultural Economics Quality Prize
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
Soon a new trademark will appear on the packaging of a few food products: the Hungarian Agricultural Economics Quality Prize honours companies’ efforts to meet quality requirements, thereby setting them...
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In terms of volume pálinka, in value bitters lead
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
Spirit retail sales are stable in terms of value, surpassing HUF 73 billion in October 2008- September 2009, just like a year earlier. However, Nielsen registered a 5 percent decline...
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Shrinking real wages
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
At enterprises employing a minimum of 5 people and at budgetary institutions, gross average wages were 1.3 percent higher and net average wages improved by 1.6 percent in the first...
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Sensormatic system at NorgesGruppen
Date: 2009-12-03 08:00:00
Norway’s leading food retail chain, NorgesGruppen equipped its stores with Sensormatic® acousto-magnetic (AM) detection technology in order to cut down on stealth and increase profits. Sensormatic AM labels are smaller...
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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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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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