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Chocolate for SMS?

Vending machines have become a tool for interactive marketing communication in the 21st century, as they are beginning to be used for promotional sampling. Consumers can request a sample from...

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Volume of foreign trade down

Export was down by 28 percent in January, compared to January 2008, while import was down by 27 percent. The balance of foreign trade showed a deficit of HUF 47...

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Törley Nyerspezsgő – Chardonnay 2006

Champagne from the Etyek region, made using the traditional method....

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Gallicoop’s 20th birthday

Even though the poultry-market is not being left untouched by the crisis, Gallicoop has reached a yield of 25 billion HUF and they are about to launch new projects in...

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Wellness services on Tesco Row

Tesco-Global Áruházak Zrt. is to launch a coupon campaign for customers visiting the shops located in its Bonyhád, Dombóvár. Miskolc-Avas and Szeged-Mórahalom stores. Customers holding receipts about goods worth more...

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Question

What means are available for supporting the international marketing of Hungarian wine? How useful are the new resources made accessible by the EU wine/grape reform? How could market players co-operate...

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Companies getting greener

Regardless of the economic crisis, no company can afford to neglect the protection of our environment, because consumers are getting increasingly sensitive to such issues. – We spend a lot...

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Whatever you’d like?

When asked about the kind of soft drink they prefer, some people say “any”. This is also the concept used by a company called Out of the Box for naming...

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Portugal in the forefront of growth

Food retail has been developing at a remarkable rate in Portugal, which was second only to Poland in terms of quantitative growth last year. Sales of FMCG products grew by...

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Cherry Queen Marcipán 3 szemes

The new size Cherry Queen Marzipan (35g) offers the delicious flavour of the original Cherry Queen Marzipan in a smaller package....

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Royal vodka introducing their new lid and bottle design

Starting from April this year, Royal Vodka is coming out with a new design. Besides the new lid, the bottle is going to get a new form too, commensurate with...

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The finest Stella Artois beer is being produced by Borsodi Brewery Plc

Borsod Brewery Plc., Hungarian factory of AB-InBev has won an international quality prize for beer-producing developments realized in 2008. AB-InBev runs a quality-competition among its breweries every year. Beer produced...

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Answer

Since August 2007, winemakers have been subject to a marketing tax. 60 percent of tax revenues which amount to HUF 750 million annually are allocated to collective wine marketing. A...

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Already huge CSR market still growing dynamically

In the opinion of Éva Bitter, independent sales consultant, CSR is a new form of communication for FMCG companies which is still quite rarely used, but can be far more...

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Sweetening drops

Flavouring syrups represent the main area of innovation in the market of cocktails and coffees. The number of activities where syrups can be used is growing – says Gábor Szabó...

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Nielsen reporting from London and Brussels: „Food relatively resistant to crisis”

According to Jonathan Banks and Jean-Jacques Vandenheede from Nielsen, the number of purchases has begun to drop while demand is shifting from pleasant things towards necessary products. Everything is related...

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Fonte Verde természetes ásványvíz 0,75 l-es

The new Fonte Verde 0,75 litre natural mineral water brings convenience into our everyday life and provides the most important conditions for our well being....

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New name for courier service

Road Parcel, one of the leading courier services in Hungary is to change its portfolio, image and name. Its name is to change to trans-o-flex and will specialise in delivering...

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SOS-stores selling cheap food in Belgrad

Grocery store chains launched the so-called SOS-stores, grocery store for low-income individuals in Belgrad, Serbia. The outlet features prices 20-50% lower than regular retail rates. The freshly opened stores are...

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Fruit yoghurt among the biggest categories

Yoghurt consumption was up by 5 percent last year, exceeding 66,000 tonnes in the March 2008-February 2009 period. Sales in terms of value exceeded HUF 35 billion, with a 10...

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SIÓ–ECKES CSR programs focusing on children

Corporate social responsibility is a strategy which represents a commitment to certain causes. For SIÓ-ECKES, the safe and healthy lifestyle of children has been such a cause for several years....

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Rauch entering the cocktail market

Rauch is to enter the market of premium products with two cocktails in 2009. FRUCTAILS is an alcohol free fruit cocktail in two flavours (Red Colada and Tropical Sunrise), in...

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Inflation fastest in Latvia

Consumer prices were up by 1.7 percent on average in the EU-27 countries in February 2009, compared to 2008. Inflation was slowest in Ireland and Portugal (0.1 percent) and fastest...

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Kométa Finom Grillek négyfűszer, csemege, sajtos-fokhagymás, provance-i grillkolbász

Modernised, dynamic packaging. Premium quality, exceptionally delicious grill sausages in four flavour versions....

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With dots for cultic gifts

A promotion similar to last year’s EFFIE prize winning campaign is planned again by the Pöttyös brand. One of the important innovations is that uploading a single code will be...

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Negative self regard among the aged

We were told at the Hungarian Consumer 50+ II conference held on 8. April, that people belonging to the 50+ generation in Hungary have an essentially negative regard of themselves...

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Yoghurts for all occasions

If protecting one’s health is affordable and this is communicated intensively, negative market trends can be defied. Yoghurt is probably the best example for this. Sales of yoghurt have risen...

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Three pillars

The CSR activities of SIÓ ECKES Kft represent three pillars: the Thank You SIÓ! program, traditional charitable activities like support for Heim Pál Children’s Hospital and other social initiatives like...

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Vodka & Co.

Royal vodka is to get a new bottle again this spring – for the third time in this decade. What is behind this constant urge to change? Competition is the...

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The “price of fear”

According to cultural anthropologist László Bence Tarr, who regularly holds courses on stress management, it is a mistake to think that stress is an unavoidable feature of work, because stress...

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