News and articles
Chicken sales on the rise
Date: 2010-12-03 13:18:10
Agricultural Economics Research Institute (AKI) monitors and regularly publishes the world’s poultry and meat product trends. Their latest report reveals that the volume of broiler chicken purchased weekly on weeks...
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Industrial production improved after last year’s poor performance
Date: 2010-12-03 13:16:37
In August 2010 the volume of industrial production increased by 17.6 percent from August last year. Production level in the first eight months of the year was 10 percent higher...
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Everything for the guest
Date: 2010-12-03 13:14:10
…or Alles für den Gast is the name of a four-decade old trade exhibition in Salzburg. This year there were not many Hungarian visitors, despite the fact that the venue...
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Online food stores are in trouble
Date: 2010-12-03 13:13:47
Every fourth online food store eliminates its operation in Great Britain. Years ago, the Internet has revolutionized the business sector. Costumers did not have to go to the hypermarkets: the...
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Facing the challenge in New York – part 14
Date: 2010-12-03 13:12:36
From last July Roland Oláh, formerly the chef of Café Erté, tries his luck in the USA. He regularly reports to our magazine: ’I feel alright at Martel, but it...
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The new Wine Marketing Committee has been formed
Date: 2010-12-03 13:00:12
Yesterday, the Wine Marketing Committee held its inaugural meeting at the Agricultural Marketing Center. The Committee on its first working day proposed the Ministry of Rural Development to continue the...
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Did they change weight class?
Date: 2010-12-03 12:59:25
Soon after we shed a tear for elBulli, Ferran Adria and his brother, Albert announced that they would be opening two new places, connected with a corridor, in Barcelona’s theatrical...
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Bulgarian pensioners stormed the Lidl stores
Date: 2010-12-03 12:58:24
Pensioners stormed Lidl stores in Bulgaria last Thursday. The stores advertised huge promotions, offering bananas and cucumbers for pennies. In Sofia, a Lidl store opening attracted mainly pensioners living in...
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They turned it on its side
Date: 2010-12-03 12:57:55
The designers of D’Espresso, a small coffee bar in New York took the idea of a coffee bar that looks like a library and turned it on its side. It...
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Where do the fruits come from?
Date: 2010-12-03 12:54:29
To sell apple from vending machines – this is a decades-old idea overseas, which now seems to be realised as part of the fight against childhood obesity and the trend...
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Cold wonders of the summer
Date: 2010-12-03 12:44:43
The most disappointing thing a bar owner cans say to a guest in summer is ‘I do not have cold beer or Coke’. Blitz Chiller is the solution: a rapid...
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Edible drinks
Date: 2010-12-03 12:43:11
If there is a popularity ranking for cocktails in the United States, Bloody Mary probably has a place in the top 5. A couple of years ago in a Florida...
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’Sho(r)t nights’
Date: 2010-12-03 12:29:47
We discussed the role of spirits in catering and the Hungarian culture of cocktail consumption with Zsolt Tokaji, on-trade manager of Bacardi-Martini Hungary Kft. • We see few alcoholic beverage...
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Wine Island
Date: 2010-12-03 12:26:39
At this year’s Hoventa Bor és Piac magazine built its Wine Island stand for the second time. This was the first collective introduction of Hungarian wines at a prestigious domestic...
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New 85 inch Panasonic plasma display set to impressin conference rooms
Date: 2010-12-03 11:57:07
A new 85-inch Full High-Definition (HD) Plasma display has been rolled out by Panasonic South-East Europe and its partner CubeMedia Ltd. Designed initially for the commercial market the screen was...
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A cooperative yesterday and today
Date: 2010-12-03 11:53:43
The first cooperatives were established during the industrial revolution. Their main principles were solidarity, joint work and democratic management; besides, they also helped members with opening shops and joint procurement....
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COOP has been a good neighbour for 15 years
Date: 2010-12-03 11:49:59
Co-op Hungary celebrated its 15th birthday in Budapest’s Palace of Arts in November. Nearly 1,000 business partners, colleagues and friends showed up and in the following you can read excerpts...
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Celebration and concerns at Europe’s Day in Commerce
Date: 2010-12-03 11:37:41
Europe’s Day in Commerce was celebrated for the sixth time in Budapest on 3 November. The National Association of Entrepreneurs and Employers (VOSZ) and the Hungarian member organisation of EuroCommerce...
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Hungexpo expands and customises
Date: 2010-12-03 11:32:52
Willingness to exhibit instantly reduced in the crisis-ridden sectors, therefore Hungexpo has to come up with exhibition concepts customised to the needs of exhibitors, to offset the drawbacks of economic...
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Nearly all households buy some kind of hygiene or skin care product
Date: 2010-12-03 11:22:48
According to GfK Hungária’s ConsumerScan, 95 percent of households bought some kind of hygiene or skin care product in the first half of 2010. In the youngest age group (under...
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Hand care creams have become cheaper
Date: 2010-12-03 11:18:38
From the Nielsen Retail Index we learn that the annual market of hand and body care creams amounts to an annual HUF 7-8 billion. From this hand crams represent HUF...
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More expensive nuts and seeds, successful dried fruit novelties
Date: 2010-12-03 11:16:43
Economic recession did not spare the domestic and international market of dried fruits and nuts/seeds. Mariann Novák, sales director of Nobilis told Trade magazin that the majority of Hungarian shoppers...
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So far we spent more on sweet biscuits this year
Date: 2010-12-03 11:13:54
Data from Gfk Hungária reveal that households spent more on sweet biscuits in the first half of 2010 than in 2009. The number of buyers did not increase, but the...
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The biscuit market suffers from increased flour prices
Date: 2010-12-03 11:12:14
Data by Nielsen revealed that sweet biscuits lost a significant share of their market in the last six months. Zsanett Teveli, Maresi Foodbroker Kft.’s brand manager told us that it...
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Plain biscuit strengthened its leading position
Date: 2010-12-03 11:10:13
Sweet biscuit sales amount to HUF 23 billion per year, according to Nielsen. Plain sweet biscuit’s market share in December 2009-July 2010 grew to 43 percent in value (up 4...
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Rauch expands on a shrinking market
Date: 2010-12-03 11:07:43
On 12 November Rauch announced at a press conference that they processed 80,000 tons of Hungarian fruit, 80 percent of which was apple. Gábor Kardos, Rauch Hungária Kft.’s director told...
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More expensive juice products increased their market share
Date: 2010-12-03 11:03:08
In the fruit juice category, sales shifted toward more expensive products with a higher fruit content: the market share of juice grew to 29 percent in value – in December...
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40 years of learning
Date: 2010-12-03 10:55:37
Balázs Pászti received the Lifetime Achievement Award of Trade magazin and Lánchíd Club. Mr Pászti was born in Budapest in 1948 and worked at only two places during his 40-year...
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From being an architect to working in the sugar industry
Date: 2010-12-03 10:54:03
Béla Fischer received the Lifetime Achievement Award of Trade magazin and Lánchíd Club. Mr Fischer was born in Esztergom in 1952 and earned a degree in architecture, which was later...
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Now we can use our mobiles to pay when shopping
Date: 2010-12-03 10:45:50
MobilePayment is available in 400 SPAR, Kaiser’s and Interspar stores from 11 November 2010, so Telenor and T-Mobile customers can use their mobiles instead of their wallets when they pay...
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