News and articles
Expensive chip in the sheep
Date: 2010-03-24 00:05:12
Animals born after 31st of December 2009, should be marked with electronic chip to be identified – states the analysis of the animal husbandry department of the Hungarian Chamber of...
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New Corporate and Regulatory Affairs Director at BAT Hungary and Austria
Date: 2010-03-24 00:02:01
Mikola Gergely was appointed as the Director of Corporate and Regulatory Affairs at BAT Hungary and Austria. British American Tobacco Hungary, the market-leader tobacco company of Hungary has recently appointed...
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A new mall opened in Arad
Date: 2010-03-24 00:01:21
Arad’s first shopping center, the Atrium Center officially opened at 5 pm yesterday. The shopping center situates right beside the central railway station, which is the most important railway junction...
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150 year old Campari celebrates with an artistic surprise
Date: 2010-03-24 00:00:59
One of Europe's most famous drink, Campari celebrates its 150th year birthday this year. On the ocassion of the anniversary three world-famous artists, designed three new labels for the bottles...
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Tesco disproves
Date: 2010-03-24 00:00:09
The Union of Independent Commercial Workers will turn to the labor affairs court to gain equal pay to all Tesco workers – stated Magyar Nemzet. Tesco disproves; equal treatment is...
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Decreasing expectations in wages
Date: 2010-03-23 00:08:55
According to Workania.hu web job site; the expectations of job searchers fell to 166,700 HUF for an average wage in 2010, while in 2009, the expected to average wage was...
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The 102nd Social Store opened in Dombóvár
Date: 2010-03-23 00:08:12
At the weekend the 102nd social store opened in Dombóvár. In the retail network – that was the initiative established by MAGOSZ – the fruits, vegetables basic foodstuffs of Hungarian...
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Last year a 30 percent decrease in sales of processed fruit occured
Date: 2010-03-23 00:07:15
According to the president of the Hungarian Fruit and Vegetable Interprofessional Organisation and Marketing Council (FruitVeb) less fruit is expected this year than in 2009, although last year, the sector...
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New owner at Lekkerland
Date: 2010-03-23 00:04:55
The company dealing with the wholesale distribution of convenience products has a new owner. HU Management Ltd. took over the Hungarian subsidiary of German Lekkerland AG & Co. KG parent...
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Sealed Air Cryovac: a successful strategy in Kazakhstan
Date: 2010-03-23 00:03:25
What a transformation: With the help of to Sealed Air Cryovac, from an unknown branded cottage, a star product of one of the leading company of Kazakhstan was transformed. The...
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China aims to be world's number one tourist destination
Date: 2010-03-23 00:03:21
The current trends would suggest that until 2015 China will be the world's number one tourist destination – said Taleb Rifai, Secretary-General of the UN Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) in the...
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New owner at Naturland
Date: 2010-03-23 00:02:15
The company previously was belonging to the interest of Szabó József, was acquired by the NV Holding Company. The company owned by Nyíri Viktor will buy the part of Naturland...
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Lighter, eco friendly champagne bottles to come
Date: 2010-03-23 00:01:33
In the homeland of champagne in the French province of Champagne, champagne glasses will be replaced with more environmentally-friendly bottles. Instead of the former used 900-gram bottles, the champagne factories...
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Tesco may expect labour proceedings
Date: 2010-03-23 00:01:11
The Union of Independent Commercial Workers will turn to the labor affairs court in every affected counties. The union wants to achieve that Tesco have to pay equal wages to...
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The first self-service warehouse opened in Hungary
Date: 2010-03-23 00:00:08
Nearly for 50 years, a large part of Americans do not store unnecessary stuff at home, rather in self-service stores. In the specially-built warehouses anyone can rent storage place. The...
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Ham producers communicate via packaging and schedule price promotions
Date: 2010-03-22 08:00:00
Last year the contracting ham market experienced positive trends in the Easter period, however, the biggest winners were cheap import products and private labels. Strong domestic brands manage to hold...
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SNICKERS® Team finished fourth at the 2010 Budapest-Bamako
Date: 2010-03-22 08:00:00
Members of the team, Kálmán Lukács Tóth and Norbert Lehotzky competed well and the charity truck managed to deliver the donations offered by Mars Magyarország to Mauritania and Mali. The...
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Top 10 chemical categories in drugstores
Date: 2010-03-22 08:00:00
Nielsen measures the retail turnover of 60 household chemicals and cosmetics. In the following table, you can find the share of the drugstore channel in the turnover of the ten...
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Ham sales remained stable at Easter
Date: 2010-03-22 08:00:00
Consumers stick to their good old Easter ham: value sales were up by 5 percent, while volume sales grew by 1 percent in last March-April. 21 percent (3,000 tons) of...
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An opportunity for a breakthrough: kosher food products
Date: 2010-03-22 08:00:00
Hungary is a small country, therefore we only have a chance on the world market of food if we find a market niche. One possible segment for a breakthrough is...
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Wine samples
Date: 2010-03-22 08:00:00
There is a new term used in marketing: tryvertising (try + advertising), which stands for ‘get to know the product by trying it’. The term may be new but the...
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Annual inflation mitigated by food prices
Date: 2010-03-22 08:00:00
This January the monthly average consumer price increase was 1.4 percent, but compared with January 2009 prices were up by 6.4 percent. In comparison to December 2009, food prices grew...
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Carte d’Or Gerbeaud Muffin jégkrém
Date: 2010-03-22 08:00:00
New Carte d’Or Muffin is the ice cream version of the cake that is increasingly popular in Hungary....
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Environmental, economic and moral issues in Berlin
Date: 2010-03-22 08:00:00
Besides the 400,000 visitors and 12,000 exhibitors, there was another record for the 75th Grüne Woche: agricultural politics was more important than ever before. The ministers of agriculture from 46...
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A real treat from Milli Mia Piruet
Date: 2010-03-22 08:00:00
The new year brought something new at Milli Mia: from January the Milli Mia Piruet cream pudding is also available in cappuccino flavour. Cappuccino-cocoa Piruet will also appear in shops...
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Unilever gathers speed
Date: 2010-03-22 08:00:00
On 4 February, Unilever published its annual global results and the report on the last quarter of 2009. Last year the company’s turnover improved by 3.5 percent, equalling a 2.3-percent...
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Less machine ham but more cooked-smoked ham sold in the first 11 months of 2009
Date: 2010-03-22 08:00:00
According to GfK Hungária’s Consumer Scan survey, consumers bought 2 percent more cooked-smoked ham (not home-made), but 6 percent less machine ham in January-November 2009 than a year earlier. In...
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They are experienced now
Date: 2010-03-22 08:00:00
This year brought the fifth Greedy Thursday and according to Magyar Turizmus Zrt.’s data more than 1,300 restaurants participated. It became evident that lower prices attract more customers to restaurants....
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