Company and Personal News
METRO’s profits halved
Date: 2009-05-06 00:23:28
One of the biggest German chain of stores’ profit halved during the first quarter of 2009. Revenue is expected to fall throughout the year, though the management is still optimistic....
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Free parking for suppliers
Date: 2009-05-06 00:16:34
Suppliers does not have to pay parking fee during the loading time after Metropolitan Assembly has accepted Budapest Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s proposal. According to regulation between 10 and...
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Hard times for the retailers of shopping centers
Date: 2009-05-06 00:11:26
The fall in household consumption causes downhill-ride for the retail sector. Customers increasingly looking for cheaper products, which affects negatively the more expensive shopping centers. The decreasing demand may have...
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Adult education – the more efficient usage of human resources
Date: 2009-05-06 00:02:00
Especially those companies can survive, the global economic crisis, which focuses on not only the business but also the training of the staff. The majority of small businesses in Hungary,...
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Mobile bar by Poplart
Date: 2009-05-05 08:00:00
A prize winning Austrian product has been added to the assortment offered by Poplart BTL Kommunikációs Ügynökség. The JUSTINCASE mobile bar fits in a bag and can be assembled without...
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Already huge CSR market still growing dynamically
Date: 2009-05-05 08:00:00
In the opinion of Éva Bitter, independent sales consultant, CSR is a new form of communication for FMCG companies which is still quite rarely used, but can be far more...
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Portugal in the forefront of growth
Date: 2009-05-05 08:00:00
Food retail has been developing at a remarkable rate in Portugal, which was second only to Poland in terms of quantitative growth last year. Sales of FMCG products grew by...
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Always promoting learning
Date: 2009-05-05 08:00:00
Always is to launch a scholarship scheme for young people from poor families which is intended to help them in accessing higher education. Applications for the HUF 150,000 per year...
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Fruit yoghurt among the biggest categories
Date: 2009-05-05 08:00:00
Yoghurt consumption was up by 5 percent last year, exceeding 66,000 tonnes in the March 2008-February 2009 period. Sales in terms of value exceeded HUF 35 billion, with a 10...
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SIÓ–ECKES CSR programs focusing on children
Date: 2009-05-05 08:00:00
Corporate social responsibility is a strategy which represents a commitment to certain causes. For SIÓ-ECKES, the safe and healthy lifestyle of children has been such a cause for several years....
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Nielsen reporting from London and Brussels: „Food relatively resistant to crisis”
Date: 2009-05-05 08:00:00
According to Jonathan Banks and Jean-Jacques Vandenheede from Nielsen, the number of purchases has begun to drop while demand is shifting from pleasant things towards necessary products. Everything is related...
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Wellness services on Tesco Row
Date: 2009-05-05 08:00:00
Tesco-Global Áruházak Zrt. is to launch a coupon campaign for customers visiting the shops located in its Bonyhád, Dombóvár. Miskolc-Avas and Szeged-Mórahalom stores. Customers holding receipts about goods worth more...
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Yoghurts for all occasions
Date: 2009-05-05 08:00:00
If protecting one’s health is affordable and this is communicated intensively, negative market trends can be defied. Yoghurt is probably the best example for this. Sales of yoghurt have risen...
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Three pillars
Date: 2009-05-05 08:00:00
The CSR activities of SIÓ ECKES Kft represent three pillars: the Thank You SIÓ! program, traditional charitable activities like support for Heim Pál Children’s Hospital and other social initiatives like...
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Inflation fastest in Latvia
Date: 2009-05-05 08:00:00
Consumer prices were up by 1.7 percent on average in the EU-27 countries in February 2009, compared to 2008. Inflation was slowest in Ireland and Portugal (0.1 percent) and fastest...
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Buying local products voluntarily
Date: 2009-05-05 08:00:00
Following many months of negotiations, a code of ethics has been signed by the representatives of retailers, farmers and processing enterprises which will become effective on 1. July. According to...
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The finest Stella Artois beer is being produced by Borsodi Brewery Plc
Date: 2009-05-05 08:00:00
Borsod Brewery Plc., Hungarian factory of AB-InBev has won an international quality prize for beer-producing developments realized in 2008. AB-InBev runs a quality-competition among its breweries every year. Beer produced...
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More households buying yoghurt
Date: 2009-05-05 08:00:00
According to the GfK Hungária ConsumerScan, 84 percent of households bought yoghurt in 2008. The segment of fruit yoghurts produced growth in 2008, while that of natural yoghurt declined. Demand...
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Non-profit wholesaler
Date: 2009-05-05 08:00:00
With four years in existence and a turnover of HUF 600 million, the Hungarian Food Bank has already proven that this globally known initiative has a place in Hungary as...
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The “price of fear”
Date: 2009-05-05 08:00:00
According to cultural anthropologist László Bence Tarr, who regularly holds courses on stress management, it is a mistake to think that stress is an unavoidable feature of work, because stress...
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Gallicoop’s 20th birthday
Date: 2009-05-05 08:00:00
Even though the poultry-market is not being left untouched by the crisis, Gallicoop has reached a yield of 25 billion HUF and they are about to launch new projects in...
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SOS-stores selling cheap food in Belgrad
Date: 2009-05-05 08:00:00
Grocery store chains launched the so-called SOS-stores, grocery store for low-income individuals in Belgrad, Serbia. The outlet features prices 20-50% lower than regular retail rates. The freshly opened stores are...
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Ice cream sales stable in terms of value, dropping in terms of quantity
Date: 2009-05-05 08:00:00
Retail sales of ice cream remain stable at HUF 18 billion annually, but dropped by 7 percent in terms of quantity in the February 2008-January 2009 period, compared to the...
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Healthy Danone products for every child
Date: 2009-05-05 08:00:00
Though Danone Kft. has different programs for different target groups, the message is the same in all CSR activities pursued by the company. Danone Kft has been supporting a number...
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New cash register zone concept by Wrigley
Date: 2009-05-05 08:00:00
According to Csaba Vajdahunyadi, sales director of Wrigley Hungária Kft., the market leader in the chewing gum category, the time has come for them to further enhance the scope of...
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Royal vodka introducing their new lid and bottle design
Date: 2009-05-05 08:00:00
Starting from April this year, Royal Vodka is coming out with a new design. Besides the new lid, the bottle is going to get a new form too, commensurate with...
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Negative self regard among the aged
Date: 2009-05-05 08:00:00
We were told at the Hungarian Consumer 50+ II conference held on 8. April, that people belonging to the 50+ generation in Hungary have an essentially negative regard of themselves...
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More intense POS activities for ice cream sales
Date: 2009-05-05 08:00:00
Private labels have conquered nearly one half of the market of ice cream. Flavour preferences are quite stable in the larger segments where intensive communication and innovative promotions can be...
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