Alföld Pro-Coop Zrt. strengthens its fresh product segment

Alföld Pro-Coop Zrt. strengthens its fresh product segment

Domestic retail is stricken by economic difficulties, less money in consumers’ pockets and weakening purchasing power. Coop reacted to these trends by not surrendering: they carry on with the modernisation...

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Majority of Hungarians are not against receiving ads in e-mail

Hungarians have a more favourable opinion of receiving online advertisements via e-mail than the European average – revealed a 55-countrey survey conducted by Nielsen. 58 percent of Hungarian participants said...

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Ladybird discount stores, Real, Tesco, Lidl…

In the second quarter of 2010 51 percent of Polish consumers were of the opinion that their country’s economy was in a state of crisis – the European average was...

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Foreign trades shows pre-crisis characteristics

In January-May 2011 the volume of Hungary’s foreign trade developed as follows: the volume of export augmented by 16 percent and import grew 14 percent from the same period in...

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More and more people buy in separate shops

GfK Hungária conducted its annual nationwide survey on shopping malls. One third of the survey’s participants go to a shopping mall at least once a week and 31 percent visit...

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In Hungary FMCG product prices were up 5 percent on average

In the second quarter of 2011 average prices in food retail rose by 5 percent if compared with the same period of 2010. The increase in the price of food,...

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Food prices are in the centre of attention

In June 2011 the production price level of agricultural products was 35.3 percent higher than a year before. KSH’s report indicates that vegetable product prices surged by 46.7 percent and...

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Do we Hungarians also belong to the group of achievers?

Is it true for us Hungarians what is true for one quarter of the world’s population, that our main motivation is financial well-being, position, power, ambition and our own interests?...

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Employment data look a bit better

In the first six months of 2011 39,000 more people were working at enterprises employing a minimum of 5 people than in the first half of 2010. Together with them,...

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European pig prices are slowly increasing

Data from the Agricultural Economics Research Institute (AKI) and KSH’s market price information system (PÁIR) reveal that according to the estimation of the European Commission, 2 percent more pigs were...

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Facing the challenge in New York – part 21

Roland Oláh earned himself a good reputation in Hungary and has been working in the United States for nearly two years. He regularly shares his experiences with our readers: ‘I...

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Everything for the flavour!

Four fifths of Hungary’s population drink coffee and 71 percent uses some kind of equipment for brewing up a cup of this hot beverage. For the perfect flavour of the...

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Everything about fish

Fish tradesman/chef Péter Szabó and György Hoitsy, the director of the trout farm in Lillafüred published a book titled ‘Fish and Fish Dishes’, which was presented at Metro’s Customer Academy...

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A loud beer feast

Budapest dwellers seem to be thirsty for beer festivals – the four-day beer feast held in Buda Castle was so crowded that one could hardly move. Domestic artisan breweries and...

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After sobering up

After the turbulence of the last few years when organisations came and went, now the profession is ‘sobering up’ and those organisations that are unable to make compromises will disappear,...

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The traps of a recommendation

On 1 August 2011 Dr Judit Paller, appointed surgeon general published a recommendation on nutrition for health for public catering service providers, which had been developed by the National Institute...

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From a good family

Zoltán Gottwald, the co-owner of Hotel Gottwald in Tata and member of MVI’s (Guild of Hungarian Restaurateurs) presidency is characterised by traditional values and a modern way of thinking. •...

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Room at the top!

From year to year the bartender competition is one of the most exciting and most spectacular events at Hoventa. This year Monin will be the main sponsor of the competition:...

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Star trends of hotel rooms at Hoventa

This is the second year that Trend Island is set up at Hoventa, to present the latest interior design trends to hotel experts. The focus is on hotel rooms, five...

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Live competition for confectioners

Domestic professional competitions are very important for Hungexpo – they support them by providing the venue and by implementing intensive communication campaigns. At this year’s Hoventa, Confectioner of the Year...

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Giropizza – one of the biggest pizza making competitions in Europe

This year one of the highlights of Hoventa will be a pizza making competition: the regional final of the 8th Giropizza d’Europa will be held on 13 October. Giropizza is...

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HOVENTISSIMA

Between 11 and 14 October Hoventa, the international hotel, restaurant, catering and gastro-technological trade exhibition is waiting for visitors at the Hungexpo fair centre with more programmes than ever before....

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Body care for all ages

Body care is a complex category that comprises accessories of bathing, skin care and beauty care. Consequently brands play an important role in the category as few take the risk...

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Both value and volume sales improved

Body lotions bettered their market position: retail sales were up 9 percent in value and 5 percent in volume in January-June 2011. The category is 12th in the Nielsen ranking...

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Increased demand for pricier teas

We buy more than HUF 13-billion worth of tea every year and retail sales augmented 2 percent in the December 2010-May 2011 period, while volume sales did not change –...

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Future in capsules

Coffee is still in the top 5 food categories but according to Nielsen volume sales dropped by a couple of percent. Value sales did not change because increased raw coffee...

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Elevated coffee prices resulted in slower sales

Coffee has the fifth biggest turnover among the 90 products measured by Nielsen. Annual retail sales amounted to HUF 47 billion. Value sales were stable in the December 2010-July 2011...

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Successful dairy snacks

Data by Nielsen tell the story of stable sales on the cooled countline sweets, with túró rudi dominating. Dairy snacks represent one quarter of the market and the trend is...

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Demand kept growing for curd-filled bars in terms of value

Cooled snack bars are the 11th most important among the 90 food categories measured by Nielsen, with annual sales nearing the HUF 27-billion threshold. In January-June 2011 value sales rose...

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Motivating programmes improve public health the most

Budapest was the host of CAOBISCO’s (association of chocolate, biscuit and confectionery industries of the European Union) annual meeting and the following open roundtable discussion for members of the trade....

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