Company and Personal News
Machine on the body
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
Adwalker, a wearable digital screen that is perfect for communication, data registration and measuring has reached Hungary. The 4-kg device consists of two ergonomic monitors built in a vest and...
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Poultry product retail sales are highly concentrated
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
Nielsen Retail Index registered a 7-percent increase in poultry product sales in November 2008-October 2009. The annual market surpassed HUF 20 billion. Volume sales were up 5 percent and exceeded...
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Full wine cellars, protected pálinkas
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
Beer consumption was 6-7 percent lower in Hungary last year– the market continues to shrink. Domestic wine consumption is estimated to be 3 million hectolitres per year; wine cellars are...
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The Popai report
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
From September 2009, the new president of POPAI Hungary is Ágnes Csiby, the executive director of In-store Team Kft. POPAI United Kingdom has more than 300 members and it supports...
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Distributor of Scholl and Durex is the Best Workplace
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
SSL Magyarország Kft. finished first in the Világgazdaság-Hewitt Best Workplace Survey. An 87-percent employee loyalty can only be the result of consistent human resource management with long-term goals. According to...
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Trends in high-selling food products
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
Retail turnover of the 90 food categories surveyed by Nielsen was HUF 1,320 billion in December 2008-November 2009, up 2 percent from the same period a year earlier. The following...
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(HU) Hírmorzsák
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
German Aldi and Lidl face decrease of consumers. According to the survey of GfK market research institute; in the first ten months of the year, the turnover of Aldi and...
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Turkey sales plummeting
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
It seems that demand for cheaper poultry also started to shrink: last year poultry processing companies bought only 1 percent less chicken meet from breeders, but at a 6-percent lower...
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More wine, but less beer sold in the first nine months of 2009
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
According to GfK Hungária’s ConsumerScan, in the alcoholic beverages category households bought 6 percent less beer than in the same period of 2008, but as average prices were slightly up...
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Increasingly popular
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
In Hungary, olive oil retail sales grew by 3 percent in December 2008-November 2009, nearing HUF 2.5 billion. Volume sales were up by 4 percent; hypermarkets generated 45 percent of...
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New communications director at Henkel
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
From 1 March 2010, Carsten Tilger will assume the position of head of corporate communications at Henkel; he will succeed Dr Marcus Kuhnert. 42-year old Carsten Tilger holds a Master’s...
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SGS against climate change
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
SGS, the world’s leading quality controlling, testing and certifying company is devoted to the protection of the environment, supporting several awareness raising campaigns. One of these is the ‘100 PHOTOS...
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Half a kilo of poultry products bought per purchase
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
Poultry products is the second biggest segment on the market of processed meat. GfK Hungária’s Consumer Scan reveals that in October 2008-September 2009 the segment shrank by a mere 2...
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Canned beer keeps conquering
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
Beer retail sales topped HUF 116 billion in December 2008-November 2009. Volume sales fell by 3 percent to 386 million litres – according to the Nielsen Retail Index. The average...
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Chewing gums in a hot spot
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
The area around cash desks is the best place for chewing gums. This healthy product is fast-moving and loyalty-building, therefore it is important to make the most popular varieties constantly...
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Experience-hungry consumers vs. discount store dominance
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
The fact that large German retail syndicates went bankrupt this year indicates that new strategies are needed to survive. 90 lecturers and 1,200 decision-makers focused on these new strategies at...
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Red Bull’s website refurbished
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
Last December brought the refurbishment of Red Bull’s Hungarian website www.redbull.hu that now focuses on videos and interactive content about Red Bull’s world. The most watched videos are collected under...
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Eight happy winners at PICK
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
PICK Szeged Zrt. celebrated its 140th anniversary with launching its integrated communication campaign last September. Eight lucky winners will always remember 22 January 2010, when they were presented their Vista...
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Domestic products’ share shrinking among dairy products
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
Last year milk processing generated a gross production value of HUF 218 billion. Production cost was HUF 75-80/kg – rather competitive, if we consider that in the EU the average...
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With modern packaging against deterioration
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
According to the latest survey by USDA, 40 percent of food sold worldwide lands in the garbage can. 100 million tons of food decomposes every year in European waste disposal...
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Olive oil marketing the Italian way
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
The olive oil and wine producers of the Italian province of Imperia turn to the Hungarian, Czech and Polish markets for new sales opportunities. The chamber of commerce invited purchasers...
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SPAR keeps up the momentum
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
SPAR Magyarország transforms 70 stores this year. In self-service type stores they plan to expand the assortment, open exhibition bakeries, use modern bread stands and displays fruit and vegetables in...
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Special wine bottles from O-I
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
O-I, one of the world’s leading glass packaging producers participated with its own stand at the SIMEI trade fair in Milan, where they introduced their revolutionarily new wine bottles, which...
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Two-digit decrease among frozen convenience foods and ready-made meals
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
ConsumerScan by GfK Hungária reveals that narrowing spending possibilities of households had a significant effect on convenience foods and ready-made meals as well. The market was expanding until 2007, when...
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Cheese, fruityoghurt, sour cream
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
Among the 90 food categories measured by Nielsen, cheese ranks 3rd, fruit yoghurt is 7th and sour cream is 9th in terms of value. All three achieved growth in terms...
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BIZERBA in the service of retail sales
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
When developing the KH-type scales, Bizerba focused on the results of a survey, according to which international retail chains would like to create a more interactive and more interesting shopping...
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Pasta and wine on the top of the import list
Date: 2010-02-14 08:00:00
The head of the Budapest office of the Italian Institute for Foreign Trade (ICE), Alessio Ponz de Leon Pisani informed us that pasta, wine and olive oil were the most...
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