Company and Personal News
We are No.1 in CSR in the region
Date: 2009-08-27 08:00:00
Based on the CSR 24/7 evaluation Hungarian and Polish companies did the best. Bulgarian and Romanian companies were also analysed. Magyar Telekom occupies the number one spot on the Hungarian...
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Electronic shelf labels in Tesco’s Budaörs store
Date: 2009-08-27 08:00:00
In the summer, Tesco replaced more than 44,000 shelf labels to electronic ones in its Buadörs store. The new labels are in wireless connection with the store’s computerised retail system,...
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Mouth care brands expand with specialties
Date: 2009-08-27 08:00:00
Sales expectations in the mouth care product category focus on keeping up the present level. Toothbrush is the leading segment of innovation, but toothpaste and mouth wash novelties are also...
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Hungarian households switch from ”A” to ”B”?
Date: 2009-08-27 08:00:00
According to data by Gfk Hungária, in the first quarter of 2009 we bought 7 percent less daily consumer goods than a year before. Brands with a higher price level...
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Kubu 100% juice – egészséges gyerekital
Date: 2009-08-27 08:00:00
Kubu products of 100% fruit content are produced without the addition of sugar, sweetness of the drinks come from the fruits’ natural sugar content....
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The price of shopping
Date: 2009-08-27 08:00:00
The communications war between Hungary’s two FMCG giants, Tesco and Spar keeps raging. A few weeks ago, Spar filed a complaint against Tesco at the Hungarian Trade Association’s Ethics Committee...
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Tesco donated clothes to charity
Date: 2009-08-27 08:00:00
Tesco-Global Áruházak Zrt. donated HUF 35 million worth of clothes in July to social welfare institutions and families in need. From its 95 hypermarkets, the chain regularly collects the products...
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Top 10 trends in petrol station shops
Date: 2009-08-27 08:00:00
Petrol station shops excel in cigarette sales: sales in terms of value increased by 15 percent in June 2008-July 2009 and exceeded HUF 34 billion. Beer and carbonated soft drinks...
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100 ml tubes strengthen on an expanding market
Date: 2009-08-27 08:00:00
Retails sales of toothpaste augmented by 6 percent in July 2008-June 2009, compared to the previous period, surpassing HUF 10 billion. In terms of quantity, the market did not change....
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Hungarians not taken to shopping malls yet
Date: 2009-08-27 08:00:00
According to a survey conducted by Gfk in June 2009, Hungarian shoppers prefer separate shops to shopping malls. 83 percent shop in the store type they like the most. More...
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Oral-B Expert Antibacterial
Date: 2009-08-27 08:00:00
The new Oral-B toothbrush prevents bacteria from settling and growing on the bristles for as long as 3 months....
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Stores opening
Date: 2009-08-27 08:00:00
City Spar, Szeged Open: 25 June Chain: City Spar Store space: 264 m2 SKU: – Spar, Ercsi Open: 2 July Chain: Spar Store space: 938 m2 SKU: – Tesco, Sárvár...
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Hungarian wine and pálinka in Düsseldorf
Date: 2009-08-27 08:00:00
This year the famous ”Die Düsseldorfer Jonges” association’s annual reception put Hungary in the limelight. On 12 May, more than 450 politicians and businessperson participated in the event in the...
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September? Education!
Date: 2009-08-27 08:00:00
Several manufacturers and retailers are involved in the mouth care weeks. They try to raise awareness of the importance of dental hygiene. With support from the Hungarian Association of Dentists,...
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Price increase slowing down
Date: 2009-08-27 08:00:00
In June consumer prices augmented by 0.1 percent, totalling at 3.7 percent higher than in the same period of 2008. According to a report by KSH (Central Statistical Office), there...
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Óbester új ízek: Mézes Kajszi és Mézes Szilva
Date: 2009-08-27 08:00:00
New, easy-to-drink flavours in line with consumer trends....
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Gold medal winner vending machine
Date: 2009-08-27 08:00:00
An interactive Coca-Cola vending machine won the Golden Lion in the ”Point of Sale” category at the 2009 Lions festival in Cannes. Its display is combined with Flash and Bluetooth...
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Apenta competition finishes
Date: 2009-08-27 08:00:00
Maspex Olympos Kft.’s 9-week competition has finished. More than 100,000 envelopes were sent in and a 4-person family holiday at Siófok’s Hotel Azúr was drawn each week. The main prize...
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Diversification among wine consumers
Date: 2009-08-27 08:00:00
Our own sales data and Nielsen surveys both indicate the increasing dominance of sweet red wines and rosé in the past five years. It is a favourable development that the...
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Three exhibitions: In-Out-Everybody!
Date: 2009-08-27 08:00:00
In – as in packaging, out – as in printing and everybody – as a possible target group: on 22-25 September printing, packaging/logistics and marketing-communication companies introduce themselves at HUNGEXPO’s...
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Half of the unemployed have been looking for work for more than a year
Date: 2009-08-27 08:00:00
In the second quarter of 2009, the unemployment rate was 9.6 percent, with 3,797,000 people being employed and 402,000 unemployed in the 15-64 age group. Compared to the second quarter...
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Fanta Bodza/Fanta
Date: 2009-08-27 08:00:00
This time the new limited edition was inspired by Hungary....
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ProWein trade fair in Düsseldorf
Date: 2009-08-27 00:07:35
Europe's largest wine and distilled spirits trade fair is the ProWein in Düsseldorf. Next year more than twenty Hungarian companies are expected to exhibit similarly to this year's event. In...
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The price of milk does not reduced
Date: 2009-08-27 00:06:52
Despite the fact, that from 1st July the milk and milk products’ reduced VAT will be 18 percent, the prices did not reduced, rather further increased by 1 percent, compared...
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The last Plus shop had been rebuilt to Spar
Date: 2009-08-27 00:05:10
The Plus brand has disappeared. The former Plus supermarkets became to Spar – a new corporate identity, extended range, high quality trade are waiting for the customers. The Spar Hungary...
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Auchan launches hypermarket price comparison site
Date: 2009-08-27 00:05:00
Auchan launches a website, he www.hiperarak.hu which will compare the prices of the domestic hypermarkets. The www.hiperarak.hu website (currently not working) established in accordance with previous recommendations of Self-contolled Advertising...
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Gastro fests in the first autumn weekend
Date: 2009-08-27 00:04:30
Between 4th and 6th September the SzeptEmber Fest of Népliget and the September Fest of Pestszentlőrinc in the Bókay Kert, are both waiting for the visitors with culinary and cultural...
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Kapuvári Meat Zrt. will expand its production
Date: 2009-08-27 00:04:00
Kapuvári Meat Zrt. will expand its production to two shifts at the recently built bacon plant, built by a 400 million HUF investment, due to the planned autumn launch of...
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