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MaxSan

Four new antiseptic cleaning products will be introduced under the MaxSan brand name....

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Somat Standard Gel

New Somat Standard soda effect dishwasher gel easily dissolves and removes even the must stubborn stains....

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FruFru fruit sour milks with fresh fruits

By distributing FruFru fruit sour milks with fresh fruits, we bring back traditional, popular flavours and consumption habits of Hungarian cuisine and make them part of a healthy nutrition. With...

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Halls

Kraft Foods welcomes 2011 with another global brand: Halls, famous for its menthol flavour, has made it to the company’s portfolio....

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Different roles in the sales area – Nielsen workshop about category management

How can the performance of a category can be improved in store sales? Paris Galanis, Nielsen’s regional category manager consultant gave answers to this question at a 2-day workshop in...

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Budapest Calling

On 23-24 November 2010 Budapest Calling, the first Hungarian call centre trade fair took place, where 36 companies and organisations of the dynamically growing sector introduced themselves. Direct Marketing Association’s...

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For TESCO music matters too!

From October 2010 TESCO in-store radio broadcasts new content in every hypermarket. Music has been broadcast in TESCO stores since 2009 by a music channel tailored to the retail chain’s...

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POS-011

Last year we introduced three campaigns each month, from the food, non-food and drink categories. This year we are going to feature two campaigns each month, one of them will...

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The evolution of shopping

An increasing number of products available is the way forward – states Tracy Bagshow, the marketing director of Service Innovation Group. Shoppers in the 21st century buy ‘every possible item...

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Gillette wins in marketing at retail

At the 2011 Night of Honors Gilette will receive the ‘2010 Chief Award for Merchandising Excellence’. POPAI president Richard Winter told that Gilette’s forward thinking approach was proven by their...

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Does holiday season spending generate profits?

After a 6-percent growth in November, in the US Wall Street analysts expect a 3.4-percent average growth from leading retail chains for December. What investors would like to know is...

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Hungary

POPAI Hungary Association held its first meeting on 20 January, where new members were introduced and the action plan for 2011 was finalised. Closer domestic and European relations and more...

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Performing on the parallel bars, in the spirit of Porter

The Business Days in Tapolca were great, my presentation was also good, but afterwards I was thinking more about what I had missed from my presentation than usual. I would...

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The bankruptcy wave is still here

In real economy the crisis is far from being over and a large number of companies are still expected to grow bankrupt. With 20,000-30,000 bankruptcies a year, Hungary is still...

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Fruit prices increased the most

Agricultural product prices significantly elevated in the past year. The production price level of agricultural products was 31 percent higher in November 2010 than a year earlier: vegetable product prices...

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obli/ance

The smart buyer’s main aim is to find the supply with the best price/value ratio. For the sake of the best offer the consumer is willing to collect information and...

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iconising

People’s attention span has become shorter in their stimulating environment. The sender of information only has a few seconds in which it must grab the consumers’ attention. Only those can...

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blind leading the blind

Consumers want to find new sources of information instead of those with expertise. Companies lose control over consumers and over the information flow. People turned their back on experts and...

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sustainable quality of life

After the recession consumers still want to sustain their standard of living. They reject obscure and vague promises, advantages and brands. Consumers set reachable purposes and look for more down-to-earth...

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age-lag

Everybody wants to be younger, wants to look youthful and is ready to make sacrifices in order to achieve this. There is a whole shift concerning age groups: children grow...

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Packaging units shrank on the frozen product market

Due to last year’s unfavourable weather there is a product shortage on the market of frozen fruits and vegetables all over the world. Prices elevated on the domestic market too,...

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share!

Consumers would like to do their bit and take their share of the work as active participants. Clubbing: groups of consumers form online communities for the sake of sharing profit...

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socio/control

Society’s social control – that is how we can sum up this trend in short. Consumers are forming communities to force companies to become transparent and socially responsible. They use...

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skeletonising

We have just started recovering from the recession and a new kind of asceticism controls our attitude. Producers have to return to the basic competences and get rid of unnecessary...

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business out of zero

With the help of the Internet it is possible to start prospering businesses as sources, ideas and know how are obtainable by anybody free of charge. A good idea or...

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Out of rock bottom

Retail volume sales were down 2.7 percent in the first ten months of 2010. According to the latest data by KSH, the volume of sales in October was at the...

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Alcoholic beverage and tobacco product prices increased above the average

In 2010 consumer prices were up by 4.9 percent on average, compared with 2009. Prices of ‘other products’ were up the most, by 8.8 percent, alcoholic beverages and tobacco products...

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Romania is on top of the EU’s inflation ranking

In November 2010 in the EU-27 consumer prices were 2.3 percent higher on average, compared to prices in November 2009. The biggest price increase was measured in Romania (7.7 percent)...

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Sharp increase in the turnover of Polish shops

According to a quick estimate by Eurostat, the volume of retail sales grew in October 2010: by 1.8 percent both in the EU-27 and in the eurozone, compared to the...

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Export drove industrial prices up

Domestic industrial sales prices were 1.2 percent higher in November 2010 than in the previous month. If compared with November 2009, they were 10.8 percent higher. Industrial export sales prices...

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