News and articles
Packaged expectations
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
According to data from the World Packaging Organisation (WPO), the global packaging material market represented a value of USD 564 billion in 2009, from which the consumer packaging market was...
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Road show popularising selective waste collection
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
Tesco and ÖKO-Pannon organised a road show to raise awareness of selective waste collection. Games, craft workshops and other fun events awaited children and adults in 5 towns. The events...
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First book published about displays
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
‘Inspire people to buy more!’ is the title of the first book about displays, published by Deutscher Fachverlag. The 300-page, English- and German-language work was introduced at the Deutscher Supermarktkongressen...
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Company evolution
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
Polish-owned MOKATE Group has several foreign companies in its portfolio. One of them is Mokate Kft. that recently introduced two new brands to the retail market: Vienna roasted Caffee Crema...
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Warm weather brought elevated prices
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
Analysts were somewhat surprised by the moderate increase in inflation in June. According to KSH’s quick report, consumer prices climbed by 0.2 percent from May and were 5.3 percent higher...
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Long-established Hungarian meat brands stand firm
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
Although meat is one of the essential food products, the market was unable to evade the effects of economic recession. Zoltán Nagygyörgy, PICK Szeged Zrt.’s product manager told us that...
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HUNGAROPACK 2010 packaging competition
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
There were 56 entries from 28 companies at the 27th HUNGAROPACK Hungarian Packaging Competition. The jury evaluated 51 works in the consumer and collective packaging category and 5 in the...
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When irresistible flavours meet
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
After launching GURU, Pöttyös entered the market with yet another novelty this year: Pöttyös Pont2 with orange flavoured Szamos marzipan. The product is available from the end of June. István...
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Food policy summit at Grüne Woche in Berlin
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
Berlin’s food fair Grüne Woche is increasingly important in the political aspects of organising the food market. For 21 January next year more than 50 countries will send their agriculture...
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What comes after the website?
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
There is no doubt that the future of restaurants’ advertising communication is the Internet. Today every 10th Hungarian has a Facebook profile, but only every 250th bar or restaurant has...
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Joya Finesse cooking cream
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
Joya Finesse vegetable-based cooking cream resembles cream, but its ingredients make it smoother and creamier....
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Emergency alert off
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
According to a forecast by GKI Gazdaságkutató Zrt. and Erste Bank, production will grow the most this year in those sectors which sell their products or services to foreign markets....
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The average volume of cured products bought per household keeps shrinking
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
According to ConsumerScan data from GfK Hungária, 87 percent of households bought sausage or salami last year, 3 percent more than a year earlier. However, in the past couple of...
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The silent shop assistant
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
Trends in the packaging of daily goods are influenced by global processes in world society and economy, creating new opportunities and demand, but posing new challenges as well. Experts have...
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With the help of British Telecom, Unilever becomes part of the everyday life of two billion people
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
BT and Unilever expanded their already existing outsourcing contract by EUR 173 million. In the following four years BT will speed up technological innovation in more than 100 countries, in...
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Business and brand building at the same time
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
Another great initiative in catering: Arany Kaviár restaurant in Budapest serves its own caviar brand to guests and to a few selected partners. The Siberian sturgeon roe is produced by...
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Embassy of Tuscany in Budapest
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
Hungarians like Italy and Italian cuisine and last year the first Italian deli opened in Budapest. Toscana Gusto procures all products from family farms in Tuscany. It took two years...
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Knorr Home Style Soup Base
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
Knorr Home Style Soup Base is a new premium product which makes the flavours of dishes richer and more delicious....
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Soaring retail growth in Malta
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
A quick estimate by Eurostat pointed out that in April 2010 the volume of retail turnover decreased by 1.6 percent in the EU-27 and by 1.5 percent in the eurozone,...
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Rice turnover concentrates and the 501-1,000-gram format is dominant
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
Retail sales of rice diminished by 2 percent in value and by 3 percent in volume in the April 2008-March 2009 period. According to the Nielsen Retail Index, the size...
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Ready to be transported and put on the shelf
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
Global trends influence the Hungarian collective packaging market. One of the current trends is using lighter cardboard products, especially on developed markets. In Europe demand is constantly growing for below...
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Henkel’s turnover grew considerably in the second quarter
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
In the second quarter of 2010 Henkel’s sales revenue totalled at EUR 3,890 billion, rising by 11.6 percent from the second quarter in 2009. Adhesive Technologies and Cosmetics branches contributed...
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Bankruptcy
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
Opten Informatikai Kft. announced in August that a record number of accommodation service providers and catering ventures went bankrupt in the first six months of 2010. The number of companies...
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Crowd trampling
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
Wal-Mart, the world’s biggest retail chain has been fighting for months against paying a USD 7,000 fine, while they are spending millions of dollars to settle the case in the...
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Fütyülős by Zwack
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
Fresh, fruity and fizzy elder taste from Fütyülős, with a low, 5% alcohol content; carbonated and contains caffeine....
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Packaged products (CPG) in the virtual space
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
It is more likely that consumers would visit the website of a packaged product (CPG) than become the manufacturing brand’s followers on Twitter or Facebook, irrespective of the product category...
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Growing diversity on the rice and flour market
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
Eating in restaurant less often could have entailed an increase in flour sales, but market players’ opinion is that demand remained stable. – The fact that flour sales did not...
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Rondo Kft. has been a key player in the Hungarian packaging material sector
since 1995
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
Cardboard is used by basically all industries, for collective, individual or shelf-ready packaging. Rondo’s partners are food and non-food companies manufacturing in Hungary. Rondo has also been IKEA’s European supplier...
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Strategic partnership will strengthen the distribution Rézangyal
Date: 2010-08-29 08:00:00
Rézangyal Kft. and Coca-Cola Hungary signed an agreement on 15 June 2010, according to which from 5 July Coca-Cola HBC is the exclusive distributor of Rézangyal Classic Selection (11 flavours)...
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