News and articles
Deficit in retail
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
In terms of volume, retail sales were 5.6 percent lower in January 2010 than in the same period the previous year. Retail sales were up by 0.6 percent in January...
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Ariel Active Gel capsule available in shops from April
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
In April 2010, Ariel introduces the latest innovation in the field of detergents, Ariel Active Gel capsule. It removes stains twice as effectively as Ariel liquid detergent, so a smaller...
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Teflon paint
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
There is a negative sentiment on the Hungarian paint market. One way out of the crisis is innovation – said Antal Szabó, managing director of Poli-Farbe Vegyipari Kft. when introducing...
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The beer market contracted further last year
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
Just like in 2008, the beer market kept shrinking in 2009, revealed GfK Hungária’s ConsumerScan, because the average household bought 6 percent less beer, 72 litres. 67 percent of Hungarian...
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A derby of traditional favourites?
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
An Internet voting by 77,000 users revealed that Hungary’s most popular dish is Újházy Chicken Soup. In a one-month survey that started on Greedy Thursday, it even proved more popular...
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They long for warmness!
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
Hot meals grown cold and cold drinks gone warm can spoil the joy of eating and drinking. An Iowa company, Roccia Bollente manufactures a product named Dining Stones. These are...
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A decrease in prices dragged Slovakian turnover down
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
According to Lucie Hrusová, communications and customer relations director of Nielsen Czech Republic the turnover of hypermarkets in Slovakia fell in terms of both value and volume last year. Discount...
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Sága innovations
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
This spring Sága is completely reborn! We sport a new logo, new packaging for our products and several exciting new products....
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Shining cleanness with the fresh scent of spring
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
Henkel welcomed spring with new, cherry blossom-scented Biopon washing powders and gels. Biopon washing powders now also make clothes easy to iron. Play at www.biopon.hu to win a wellness weekend...
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Tetra Pak closed a successful financial year
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
2009 was a successful financial year for Tetra Pak. Despite the crisis, the company managed to improve its sales revenue by 1.2 percent to EUR 8.95 billion in 2009, compared...
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Orange, peach and apple is the ranking in terms of volume
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
Fruit juice retail sales were down 9 percent in value in the February 2009-January 2010 period, compared to the same period a year earlier and totalled at HUF 42 billion....
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The bartender of the future…
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
…this is how Péter Morafcsik, vice president of the Hungarian Bartender Union called Máté Csatlós. The young barman, who works in Ibiza, won the fifth De Kuyper bartender competition for...
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Based on their own recipe
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
A German enterprise called Chocri started out as a small confectionery and in two years it became famous across the Atlantic too. The company sells chocolate that is flavoured and...
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Facts and misbeliefs about our trade with Slovakia
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
Slovakia is the 5th biggest target market of our agricultural export, but it is also one of our top five import markets. Among the countries of the Visegrád Group, Slovakia...
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Joya Sojagurt
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
Made from Austrian soya bean, guaranteed to be GMO-free, 100% vegetable origin, lactose-, gluten- and cholesterol-free....
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Strategy brings success
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
Odary, the new umbrella brand of Kazakhstan’s Agroprodukt and the recently introduced reclosable Cryovac® EOR211 foil started a retail and social revolution. Packaged in the innovative new foil, Odary cottage...
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Comfort packaged
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
The latest novelty by Sealed Air Cryovac is the unique Cryovac® Oven Ease™ HC2440 gas-tight baking bag. Food is more delicious and tender if prepared in the new baking bag,...
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Fruit juices bought less often
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
GfK Hungária’s ConsumerScan reveals that only 100% fruit juice volume sales remained stable on the shrinking fruit juice market. The segment’s market share improved by 2.5 percentage points in 2009....
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’Only one can stay’
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
Heston Blumenthal, one of the world’s most famous chefs announced his ‘A stage at Heston Blumenthal’s’ competition. The Fat Duck Team and the Hungarian Bocuse ’Or Academy will select the...
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Beer-friendly work clothing
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
An English creative agency created the world’s smartest and cheapest ‘work clothing’. The T-shirts imitate the clothing worn at Bavarian beer festivals and most probably generate positive feelings in beer...
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From Michurin to Volkswagen
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
By buying and using the Mirelite name, Mirsa not only saved a Hungarian brand, but they also proved that SMEs can be strong if they have a modern company structure....
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Vanish Oxi Action Extra Hygiene
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
Vanish Oxi Action Extra Hygiene is the newest product family of Vanish stain removers, which not only removes different types of stains, but also kills 99.9% of bacteria....
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Pöttyös Túró Rudi is Hungary’s strongest brand
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
B&P Braun & Partners Hungary and GfK Hungária Market Research Institute conducted a survey on the strength of brands: Pöttyös Túró Rudi is on top of the list, followed by...
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New owner at Lekkerland
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
From February 2010, HU Management Kft. is the 100-percent owner of the Hungarian affiliate of German company Lekkerland AG & Co. KG. The company’s name, logo, strategy and commitment to...
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House of Hungarian Flavours opened in Szentendre too
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
A new Prémium Hungaricum shop opened in Szentendre at the end of March. There are already 6 partner shops in the franchise system of the Prémium Hungaricum Association, which tries...
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Cream and waxing strips were the most popular
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
The annual market of hair removal products is above HUF 1 billion. Retail turnover diminished by 2 percent in value and by 8 percent in volume last year – states...
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Double influence
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
István Kiripolszki, the sous-chef of Kogart in Budapest entered both category ‘A’ chef competitions. Q: Did you try to demonstrate something by this? A: Not at all, I just wanted...
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Faithful followers of the system
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
There is one field in catering that definitely develops faster then the others: restaurant IT systems. It is not new information that the Hungarian market is really price sensitive, therefore...
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EuroCIS in Düsseldorf: Information technology specifically for retail
Date: 2010-04-27 08:00:00
There is a constant demand from retailers for IT innovations, so it does not come as a surprise that early March the EuroCIS retail information technology trade fair in Düsseldorf...
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