Company and Personal News
Heartening domestic retail data
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
According to KSH’s report, after a 0.6-percent growth in January, retail turnover in Hungary stagnated in February, but the annual downturn diminished from 5.6 to 4.3 percent. In terms of...
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Cheese in chocolate-type multi-block form
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Chunka Cheese’s experts had two things in mind when they created a cheese block design that is similar to a chocolate bloc or bar: convenience and simplicity. Smaller sections of...
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Whitening toothpaste is stable in popularity
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Toothpaste volume and value retail sales grew only in hypermarkets and in the 201-400 m²-channel in March 2009-February 2010 – the Nielsen Retail Index informs us. Hypermarkets’ value share reached...
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New CEO for BAT Hungary and BAT Austria
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
From 1 January 2010, Octavian Dascalescu (39) is replacing Emil Moskofian in the CEO’s seat of British American Tobacco (BAT) Hungary. He started his career at BAT Romania in 1997...
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Pampers and UNICEF continue the battle against newborn tetanus
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
In 2010, Pampers and UNICEF keep fighting for eliminating newborn tetanus by 2012. This year Gabriella Jakupcsek will represent the campaign in Hungary. After every Pampers product bought from 1...
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Hungarian pigs cannot cope with competition
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
The Agricultural Economics Research Institute (AKI) continuously monitors and publishes world trends in poultry and fruit/vegetable products. Their last report reveals that this year we can expect a global growth...
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ChocolateStory
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
These days one of the strongest consumer trends is transparency. US company Original Beans plants a tree after every bar of chocolate they sell. Documents in the packaging indicate the...
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The teeth situation
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Hungarian people’s oral hygiene is still below par. Márton Pál, brand builder with Unilever Magyarország Kft. shared some data with us: toothbrush usage is 1/person/year, toothpaste consumption is 3 tubes...
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dm changes the design of its shop windows
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
dm Kft. will refurbish the shop windows of 32 stores by September and in 5 years time all of their units will look different. The idea for the new façade...
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Economic policy dilemmas
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
According to a forecast by GKI Gazdaságkutató Zrt. and Erste Bank, the Hungarian economy will stagnate in 2010 and a moderate growth is expected only in the second half of...
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Personalised rejuvenation
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Cosmetics manufacturer Skin Mood offer perfectly personalised cosmetics products to consumers. They employ dermatologists, chemists and geneticists who create face creams based on consumers’ own genome; it takes 20 days...
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Functionality gets a leg up
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
The economic recession hit the foot care category hard, buyers were forced to make decisions by looking at the prices only, which resulted in a fallback amongst premium brands. Renáta...
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Smile Magic Lifestyle Days programmes commenced
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
On 17 April a series of programmes started, with the goal of raising awareness of a healthy lifestyle. Organised by Mosoly Alapítvány, Tesco and Procter&Gamble, the programme will travel to...
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In the developed world growth is already palpable
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
According to an analysis by credit insurance company Coface Hungary, in the first quarter of 2010 companies’ insolvency indicator augmented by 12 percent, compared with the same period in 2009....
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Most people expect the growth of the Internet
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Hungarian Mediaindex, a survey by Marketing&Media and Ipsos revealed that 83 percent of those asked expect growing advertising revenues on the Internet for the second half of 2010. The heads...
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Shoe care brands are strong
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
The Nielsen Retail Index registered 13 percent lower value sales in shoe care product retail, while volume sales were 20 percent lower in comparison with the previous year. Average price...
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Forest helps protecting birds
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Forest-Papír Kft. and the bird hospital in Hortobágy organise a prize game – with Kiskokas napkins and Selfness Ecoring handkerchiefs – to call attention to the beauties of nature and...
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METRO focuses on private labels
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
From 15 April, METRO Hungary will carry out a 2-week campaign that focuses on their six private label products (Aro, Fine Food, Horeca Select, H-Line, Rioba, Sigma), offering several hundred...
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Strengthening Forint, expanding food export
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
According to a preliminary estimate by KSH, our foreign trade surplus was EUR 374 million (HUF 103 billion) in February, up EUR 78 million (HUF 14 billion) from February 2009....
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Surprising changes in online content consumption
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Data from the gemius/Ipsos Audience online audience measurement system shows that the Internet using habits of certain target groups and the character of consumed content has changed considerably. While the...
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Gloomy Sunday?
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
The battle in the past 10 years between retail chains and trade unions about Sunday shopping seems to settle for a draw in Hungary. However, the debate continues on a...
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Another environmentally conscious step from Mars
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Mars Incorporated’s pet food manufacturing company was the first to announce that by 2020 they will only be using fish from sustainable sources for pet food production. At the end...
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POS Media helps with advertising surface
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
In 2010, POS Media Hungary will support PCOS Szívügy Foundation with advertising surface that is worth HUF 8 million. The foundation helps those (about 10 percent of Hungarian women) who...
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Agricultural prices augmented at the beginning of the year
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
KSH’s report informs that the production price index of agricultural products went up by 0.2 percent in February 2010, compared with the same period a year before. This February vegetable...
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Competing with the neighbours drives the garden product market
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Experts say that the development of people’s gardens depends on how much they earn and on their rivalry with neighbours. From year to year, the garden product market expands by...
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Tracked fleets
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Many companies distribute solutions such as vehicle tracking system, satellite fleet management system or GPS fleet tracking. In everyday conversations GPS (Global Positioning System) means a navigation system installed in...
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Coded price-hunting with iPhone
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Árukereső.hu, Hungary’s most popular price comparison site introduced a useful application for iPhone. By using the iPhone camera to read products’ barcodes in-store, the application finds the best on-line price...
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Tesco and Rosenthal announced a new loyalty point collecting promotion
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
The promotion is called ’The art of cuisine from point to point’ and it will give shoppers the opportunity to buy products from the exclusive Thomas dinnerware range with a...
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Increasingly conscious decisions by shoppers
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Last year the complete turnover of daily consumer goods bought by Hungarian households remained stable in nominal value, in comparison with 2008. However, in terms of volume turnover lowered –...
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Germans shoppers buy comfortably in a pleasant environment
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Edeka Group, the market leader in German food retail improved its turnover by 17 percent, compared with the previous year, and its sales revenue surpassed the EUR 39.6 billion threshold...
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