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Strengthening forint slows down meat imports

Agricultural Economics Research Institute (AKI) monitors and regularly publishes the world’s poultry and fruit/vegetable product trends. Their latest report reveals that the price of Hungarian slaughter pigs decreased early July....

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Playboy Energy Drink & Playboy Energy Drink Light

Mixed fruit flavoured, carbonated energy drink with a high caffeine content....

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The price of shopping

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

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

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

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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Leading his own team

András Wolf, the chef of Boscolo’s New York Szalon is one of those young chefs who were given the opportunity to prove their skills. Needless to say that he worked...

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Waiting for the nadir

According to economic projections by GKI Gazdaságkutató Zrt. and Erste Bank, the worse is yet to come for the Hungarian economy, with GDP expected to decrease to 6.5 percent. Agriculture...

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Lipton Piramis Tea

The new pyramid-shaped tea bag helps to bring out the flavour and aroma of bigger tea leaves and fruit bits....

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Stores opening

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

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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News

The world’s largest retailer, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. achieved a 3.44 billion USD, 88-cent per share profit in the second quarter of 2009. The result is almost the same as the...

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September? Education!

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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Double role

Many would like to be in the place of Zoltán Danó, the chef of Kogart restaurant in Budapest: he cooks for elite guests in the modern kitchen of a fancy...

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Hungarian households switch from ”A” to ”B”?

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

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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Gold medal winner vending machine

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

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

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!

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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Platán étterem

Platán restaurant in Tata is a premium, but not elitist place created by an „all stars” team. László Jakabffy has been responsible for the design while Sándor Facsar is in...

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Hungarians not taken to shopping malls yet

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

The new Oral-B toothbrush prevents bacteria from settling and growing on the bristles for as long as 3 months....

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ProWein trade fair in Düsseldorf

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

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

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

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

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

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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Bio mangalica do not purchased ,while traditional pork is popular

According to experts, the “triumph” of biomangalica is a myth. Eco- mangalica is expensive and noone pays for it domestically and abroad as well. In big volumes it is almost...

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