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Ice cream sales by shops took a favourable turn

Ice cream managed to better its market position: according to the Nielsen Retail Index retail turnover increased in terms of both value – by 3 percent, reaching HUF 18 billion...

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Hungarian POP contest

POPAI Hungary joins the international POPAI Awards series by announcing a competition for POP tools. The jurying will take place at the next Business Days in Tapolca. Winners will participate...

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Forest helps protecting birds

Forest-Papír Kft. and the bird hospital in Hortobágy organise a prize game – with Kiskokas napkins and Selfness Ecoring handkerchiefs – to call attention to the beauties of nature and...

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dm changes the design of its shop windows

dm Kft. will refurbish the shop windows of 32 stores by September and in 5 years time all of their units will look different. The idea for the new façade...

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We are having a McBreakfast

According to the McBreakfast Quick Report, more than 800,000 Hungarians start the day with an empty stomach. More than 1.5 million people have breakfast in some café or snack bar...

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Treasure hunt

Super premium category and special beers are of moderate importance in domestic retail, but in HoReCa they are more and more present. In the past 2-3 years, a wide selection...

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Firsthand market research

Firsthand market research data’ was the title of Trade Marketing Club’s meeting on 15 April in the BKIK headquarters. Leading experts from GfK, Nielsen and Ipsos analysed the past year...

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Food prices stepped on the brake

In March 2010, the monthly average consumer price increase was 0.7 percent, but compared with March 2009 prices were up by 5.9 percent On average, prices were 6 percent higher...

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Ice cream experiences from branded products

It seems like the crisis does not affect ice cream sales – Nielsen reported improvement. If we look behind the trend, we can see that private labels are slowly expanding...

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Private life made public

While shopping, customers can now use their smartphones to compare prices with prices offered by other shops. Shopkick, a recently established California enterprise uses the phones’ location-sensing abilities to send...

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Another environmentally conscious step from Mars

Mars Incorporated’s pet food manufacturing company was the first to announce that by 2020 they will only be using fish from sustainable sources for pet food production. At the end...

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Smile Magic Lifestyle Days programmes commenced

On 17 April a series of programmes started, with the goal of raising awareness of a healthy lifestyle. Organised by Mosoly Alapítvány, Tesco and Procter&Gamble, the programme will travel to...

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Hungry Americans

Even bad publicity is publicity – goes the proverb. KFC’s Double Down sandwich is simply called ‘heart attack’ by some – instead of a bun it is made with two...

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Improving toilet room hygiene

The quality level of toilets in hotels and restaurants often falls below the standard guests expect. Erika Sárközi, a junior product and market manager with SCA Hygiene Products Kft. agrees...

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Members of the food chain are more disciplined year by year

In Hungary people’s trust in food products has never been shaken. Not even six years ago, during the paprika scandal. Nevertheless, the bird flue did some harm to chicken farmers....

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Industrial prices decreased

lthough in February 2010 industrial export prices were 0.9 percent higher than in the previous month, they were 5.4 percent lower in comparison with February 2009. Prices in the food...

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Larger packaging units experienced a bigger decline

Data from GfK Hungária’s ConsumerScan indicates that 40 percent of Hungarian households bought some kind of family size ice cream in 2009. The average household purchased this cold delicacy 6...

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The fourth screen

It caused a lot of excitement when in Nielsen’s first quarterly report the company audited the efficiency of programmes and ads in so-called 4th-screen broadcasts – these run on displays...

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Coded price-hunting with iPhone

Árukereső.hu, Hungary’s most popular price comparison site introduced a useful application for iPhone. By using the iPhone camera to read products’ barcodes in-store, the application finds the best on-line price...

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METRO focuses on private labels

From 15 April, METRO Hungary will carry out a 2-week campaign that focuses on their six private label products (Aro, Fine Food, Horeca Select, H-Line, Rioba, Sigma), offering several hundred...

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Be happy if they complain!

The average Hungarian guest is not hard to please, very often they would tolerate anything even if their problem could be solved easily. Who is the loser in cases like...

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NaturAqua

Thanks to NaturAqua Emotion Peer-Lemon Balm’s unique, pleasant taste the daily liquid intake is more pleasurable....

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Consumer trust

Food safety is important for every second Hungarian in deciding where to do their shopping, informs a Nielsen survey. Six out of ten Hungarians think the products they buy in...

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Inflation in Hungary is the highest

In February 2010, in the EU-27 consumer prices were 1.4 percent higher on average, compared to prices in February 2009. The biggest increase was measured in Hungary (5.6 percent) and...

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Growth in terms of both value and volume

The Nielsen Retail Index revealed that mineral water’s market position strengthened in retail: in April 2009-March 2010 value sales improved by 3 percent and neared HUF 47 billion, while Nielsen...

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Design and brand building the P&G way

The significance of in-store marketing keeps growing. According to a report by Nielsen, in-store tools are more influential in shaping awareness than television. So Phil Duncan, the head of P&G...

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Modern packaging system from Cryovac

FLOW-VAC system by Cryovac® is one of the most successful packaging systems available in Europe. Designed in cooperation with ULMA, FLOW-VAC guarantees a perfect packaging for cheese and meat products....

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POS Media helps with advertising surface

In 2010, POS Media Hungary will support PCOS Szívügy Foundation with advertising surface that is worth HUF 8 million. The foundation helps those (about 10 percent of Hungarian women) who...

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Data speak

Three years ago the marketing department of the University of Mississippi surveyed customers’ level of satisfaction with bars and restaurants. Nearly 47 percent of guest said they never complained about...

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Fanta Bongo

This time the new, limited edition was inspired by South Africa....

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