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Beer tax kills pubs

Since September, three hundred British pubs had to be closed because of the rising taxes on beer, and this year five thousand jobs will terminated in Great Britain, as the...

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A new era in employment

The new Labour Law is to enter into force on 1 July 2012, making significant changes in the relationship between employers and employees. One of the changes is that in...

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Profi: improving the level of retail

Profi Magyarország Zrt.’s owner is the Louis Delhaize Group. Profi appeared on the Hungarian market in 1989, establishing a food discount store chain from wholesale warehouses. Some of their units...

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Csemege-Match: quality groceries – comfortably

Csemege-Match Kereskedelmi Zrt. is a member of the Louis Delhaize Group. Their Hungarian network consists of 113 stores with a floor space of 300-2,500m² and they have more than 2,000...

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Auchan: Hungarian products is the way to go

French retail group Auchan opened its first Hungarian store in 1998 and currently has 12 units and 11 boutique rows, employing 5,600 people. Auchan Hungary’s turnover was HUF 230 billion...

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Lidl: more than 150 stores

Lidl operates Europe’s biggest food discount store chain that is present in 27 countries. Lidl entered Hungary in 2004 with 12 stores and a logistics centre. Today they have 152...

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With two new central warehouses Reál plans expansion

Reál’s turnover in 2011 was similar to their 2010 performance – the moderate growth was the result of inflation. At the end of the year Reál decided to build two...

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SPAR Hungary celebrated twenty years last year

SPAR Hungary expanded further in 2011 and an important element of this expansion was the refurbishment of another 27 former Plus stores. Two new units also opened, one of them...

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CBA: Príma and Cent came to the rescue

In 2011 the CBA network’s turnover was HUF 565 billion, surpassing the HUF 555 billion performance of 2010 despite the recession. CBA still has the most units among Hungarian chains,...

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dm-drogerie markt is in top form

The first Hungarian dm store opened in Budapest in July 1993. Currently they have 256 units all over Hungary and employ 2,251 people. In the 2010/11 fiscal year dm’s turnover...

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Tesco’s revenue was above 700 billion

In the 2011-12 fiscal year Tesco Hungary’s turnover augmented by 6 percent, thanks to innovations and to increasing the number of their services. Tesco Hungary’s gross revenue was HUF 705.2...

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Retail chain ranking 2011: Tesco, CBA and Coop are the top three

Although the level of consumer confidence is strikingly low in Hungary (the lowest in the world: in the fourth quarter of 2012 it was 30 points when the global average...

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Trends, whys and answers – part 2

If ten years ago the word ‘elite’ was written on a certain product, a significant proportion of people were willing paying to much more for it than for a similar...

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One billion pound revival plan for Tesco

Tesco, the world’s third biggest retailers announced that the plan is ready to overhaul its underperforming (trading profit fell 1 percent) UK business. Chief executive Philip Clarke told reporters that...

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Insider

POPAI Awards Paris, the French POP competition is held every other year as part of the Marketing at Retail Show (MPV). This year there were 340 entries from 14 countries...

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51-200m²

Almost one third of the nearly 20,000 general food stores belong to the 51-200m² channel: according to the last Nielsen census there are 6,355 of them and the majority of...

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To invest – but how?

We cannot hope for more investments and economic growth until the legal and fiscal environment becomes more stable. Investment activity also reduced because of lower domestic demand and the lack...

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Can we be hopeful?

Here we are in our little country that is the centre of the world for us, but sometimes we forget that it is only us who feel this way. Therefore...

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Retail sales in the EU and in the euro area increased in March

A turn took place in the euro area retail trade in March: the volume of turnover increased by 0.3 percent, compared to the previous month, when the decline was 0.2...

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The logistics center of Alföld Pro-Coop was implemented from half-billion HUF

The storehouse base of the Alföld Pro-Coop Zrt. is ready with a 462 million HUF investment in Kecskemét. The European Union supported the project with 161.8 million HUF. With the...

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The Gallicoop turkey processor is crisis resistant

The determining Hungarian poultry company, the Gallicoop Pulykafeldolgozó Zrt. based in Szarvas closed last year with a 31 billion HUF revenue. That means a 13.6 percent sales increase, compared to...

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A store has opened in Szekszárd ditributing local products

A store ditributing local products opened in Szekszárd. The non-profit business, created with EU support offers local branded products to the customers. The shop was implemented by the Eco-Sensus Közhasznú...

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Hey-Ho’s manufacturer requests bankruptcy protection

The manufacturer of Hey-Ho fruit juice, the First Hungarian Fruit Processing and Fruit Juice Manufacturing Inc. (Elma) asked for bankruptcy protection. The company has been profitable even in 2010,its turnover...

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Romanian retail sales have increased

The Romanian retail sales increased by 4.5 percent in the first quarter of this year, compared to the same period of last year – the country's statistical office announced on...

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The Chinese government promises the greater quality control of food and drugs

After the scandals of the past few months – in many cases international companies were involved – the Chinese government promised increased quality control in case of the most important...

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Pepsi pays tribute to Michael Jackson

Soon Pepsi cans will appear on the shelves of the stores with the face of the king of pop. Pepsi pays tribute this way to Michael Jackson celebrating the 25th...

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Tesco has agreed with the trade unions on the wages of cashiers

The satisfaction of its employees is important for the supermarket chain, and therefore Tesco will pay the same amount of rate collated with the trade unions. Tesco has agreed with...

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Emerging e-commerce and m-commerce

In the USA 6.6 percent of retail sales are realised online and according to researchers this ratio will go up to 20 percent in the next 10 years. eMarketer claims...

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Growing unemployment in Europe

The number of unemployed broke a negative record in the euro area. In the 17 member countries, the number of registered unemployed was 17.36 million in March – Eurostat announced...

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(HU) Hogyan döntenek a vásárlók? A döntési fa megalkotása és megértése

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