Company and Personal News
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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PDA and smartphone: about to merge
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
The market of PDA devices, which are capable of transmitting data directly from the store via the Internet, has been standing still for quite a while. Neither Microsoft nor Symbian...
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Modern packaging system from Cryovac
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
FLOW-VAC system by Cryovac® is one of the most successful packaging systems available in Europe. Designed in cooperation with ULMA, FLOW-VAC guarantees a perfect packaging for cheese and meat products....
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S-Budget is two years old
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
SPAR Hungary’s private label product range celebrates its 2nd birthday. Back in April 2008 40 products were launched, now SPAR offers 240 S-Budget products, 75 percent of which are Hungarian...
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Television advertising campaigns’ reach can now be measured electronically
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
GfK Panel Services Germany expanded its Web Efficiency Panel service: it now involves monitoring the reach of television advertising campaigns. Panel members were given special mobile phones which are capable...
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A stable yoghurt market with strong manufacturer brands
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Manufacturer brands strengthened their position in yoghurt retail sales: they improved by 1 percentage points in value (reaching an annual HUF 29 billion) and by 3 in volume against private...
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Behind the scenes
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
The crisis generated cost efficiency measures and structural changes, which affected sales teams too. Work has been outsourced at several companies, either completely or in part. According to Ágnes Csiby,...
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STI Group acquired Line Packaging & Display company
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Europe’s leading POS solution provider and top-quality packaging material manufacturer STI purchased UK company Line Packaging & Display Limited, on 31 March 2010. The company has 100 employees and its...
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New finance director at METRO
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
From 19 April, Csaba Mándoki is the new finance director of METRO Hungary. He started his career at METRO Hungary in 1995 as head of the controlling department. From March...
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‘It is ending precisely now…’ (Part 2)
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
This new, 6-part series by Trade magazin and GfK Hungária Market Research Institute focuses on price trends, pricing policies and consumer expectations in terms of price. Last time we called...
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Yoghurt drinks are coming up
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
The yoghurt segment which focuses on health managed to expand despite the crisis, only the medium price segment contracted a bit. Beáta Kiss, external relations director at Danone Kft., is...
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Down on your knees or standing up?
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
‘How many of you are convinced that win-win business relationships are good for you?’ 90 percent of people in the room raised their hands. ‘Your minutes are numbered!’ – said...
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Equipment for firefighters in Sopron and screenings for Martfű dwellers
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
The two winner foundations spent the HUF 3 million they won in the ‘Heineken Hungária for Sopron / Martfű’ charity programme on the projects mentioned above. Heineken announced its charity...
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Sialogue for improving the conditions of dogs
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Mars organised a meeting for experts, NGOs and public authorities who work for solving the problems of domestic animal keeping. Participants of this Social Dialogue discussed problematic issues and proposed...
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Net wages escalated by ten percent
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
At enterprises employing a minimum of 5 people and at budgetary institutions, gross average wages were 3.7 percent higher and net average wages improved by 10.3 percent in the first...
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Households spent less on yoghurt last year
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Last year 86 percent of households bought yoghurt – shows ConsumerScan by GfK Hungária. As for fruit yoghurts, 81 percent of consumers bought one flavour or another, so sales remained...
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Private life made public
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
While shopping, customers can now use their smartphones to compare prices with prices offered by other shops. Shopkick, a recently established California enterprise uses the phones’ location-sensing abilities to send...
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