Company and Personal News
Few fruits and vegetables were profitable
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
Last summer brought hailstorms and drought, the damages amounted to billions of Forints. Due to the economic crisis the sector lost markets. Only watermelon and white paprika did considerably well....
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Identification, control, product suggestion: the future has arrived
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
One of the key drivers of consumer behaviour is distrust that is rooted in fear from the unknown. Providing consumers with precise and credible information could alleviate this distrust –...
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‘Many products are missing that Hungarians would appreciate’
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
Bartolomeo La Cava founded his food product import company a year ago. Delifood International Kft.’s most popular products in Hungary are Parma ham and Parmigiano Reggiano. Their main distribution channels...
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Modest growth may start in the summer of 2010
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
According to a forecast by GKI Gazdaságkutató Zrt. and Erste Bank, after a 6.5-percent economic decline in 2009 stagnation is expected for 2010. The Hungarian economy has probably hit the...
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Synergon becomes founding member of a cluster
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
On 1 December 2009, Synergon Rendszerintegrátor Kft. joined the Economy-driven Vocational and Development Cluster. The organisation is made up of 11 companies and its objective is to develop and utilise...
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International cosmetics trade fair in Düsseldorf
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
‘Beauty International’, held on 26-28 March 2010 will concentrate on beauty and especially skin care. 1,200 companies and brands are going to be present and 50,000 visitors are awaited. You...
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More expensive milk chocolate egg and rabbit figures are the most popular
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
Easter sweets sales are expected to be around HUF 2.3 billion-2.5 billion. According to the Nielsen Retail Index, seasonal turnover growth stopped in 2008 – in volume there was an...
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Preserving industry produces less
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
Two thirds of the preserving industry is dominated by Hamé, Univer and Bonduelle. Last year they held back production by 15-20 percent. The canning segment’s annual sales revenue is HUF...
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Metro, TESCO and Co-op have already realised…
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
Mistakes occurring in the supply chain are often the result of partners not communicating correct data to each other about the products. The retail chains mentioned above have already realised...
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Creative yearend
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
The end of the year was all about the holidays: an arsenal of decorational accessories lured customers and the impulse zone was full of seasonal products. Small household appliances and...
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Back to the future – Future store solutions at Praktiker
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
The masters course of POPAI Magyarország Association involved learning about the future store solutions at the Praktiker store in Vecsés, last autumn. Marketing director Péter Dömötör analyses the elements of...
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Caffé Perté entered the vending market
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
Caffé Perté, one of the biggest café suppliers on the domestic market entered the market with professional hot drink vending machines. Commercial director Andrea Boda said that the term ‘premium’...
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New management for the Czech fair organiser
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
On 17 December 2009, the board of directors of Veletrhy Brno public limited company (BVV) appointed Jiří Kuliš to the post of director general. Norbert Schmidt was created general commercial...
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You can look and you can touch – Easter chocolate figures
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
After last year’s renewal, this year it is the turn of presenting the assortment in a spectacular fashion at Bonbonetti, the market leader in Easter chocolate figures production. According to...
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The frozen food market contracted
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
According to GfK Hungária’s ConsumerScan, 67 percent of Hungarian households bought a frozen product (pizza, meat product, potato, vegetables) at least once in October 2008-September 2009, down 1 percentage point...
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Inflation just above the 4-percent threshold in 2009
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
According to KSH, consumer prices in 2009 were 4.2 percent higher on average, compared with the previous year. Household energy prices augmented the most, by 8.2 percent, followed by alcoholic...
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Foreign markets – Croatia – Where traditional shops are still able to grow
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
According to a study by Nielsen, titled ShopperTrends, supermarkets dominate the food retail of Croatia (a market of 4.5 million consumers), as 69 percent (up from 49 a year ago)...
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Magyar Cukor Zrt. got a top mark
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
The only Hungarian sugar company finished a successful year at the end of 2009. In the Kaposvár refinery they completed a campaign at the end of last year: 730,000 tons...
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MFP rebranded
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
Last November the Hungarian Consumer Platform (MFP) appeared on the scene with a new, characteristic and colourful image. They also developed a new brand position that is best characterised by...
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Easter chocolate figure market keeps shrinking
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
This March-April 30 percent of Hungarian households bought some kind of Easter chocolate figure, while in the same period a year earlier this ratio was around 33 percent – informs...
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Baking industry concentrates further
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
While last year’s grain harvest was good, low buying prices were a disappointment to farmers. The baking industry has been concentrating for years; the number of small companies is declining,...
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Falling prices in the meat sector
Date: 2010-02-14 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 the production price of domestic pork fell by...
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Happy Day gyümölcslevek
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
Two delicious flavours from Happy Day! Happy Day Kajszibarack’s unique taste and silky thickness are the result the 40%-fruit content, which is the most perfect in the case of apricot....
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Frozen products are waiting for the market to thaw
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
2009 was the year when consumers started spending more time in the kitchen and spending less eating out. Dr József Losó, the CEO of MIRSA Zrt. completely agrees. He saw...
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New sales director at Wrigley
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
From 1 Januray 2010, György Walter is the new sales director of Wrigley Hungária Kft., the domestic market leader in chewing gum distribution. György Walter started his career at Unilever...
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The epaper solution wins
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
CBA was the first to introduce ZBD’s new generation epaper shelf label solution, in its new store in Mogyoród: the solution is a world premiere that came out in 2009...
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Shampoo average prices develop steadily
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
Shampoo ranks ninth among the 60 household chemicals and cosmetics categories measured by Nielsen. The annual market is worth HUF 11 billion and value sales were up by 2 percent,...
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Pasta prices slightly reduced – turnover remains stable
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
Pasta is one of the most popular food products in Hungary. It ranks eleventh among the 90 categories measured by Nielsen, measured in value. Annual retail sales are above the...
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Most people would prefer free Internet content
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
80 percent of Internet users would like free access to Internet contents; one third want free content without advertisements, but the majority would tolerate advertisements if access was free. In...
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