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Great music in Fressnapf stores

Europe’s No.1 pet food and accessories chain commissioned Mood Media with establishing an in-store radio and scent marketing service. Fressnapf realised the importance of conscious audio communication and the importance...

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Paprika Gourmet is looking for franchise partners

Paprika Gourmet, a Hungarian deli store chain opened its first unit in Barcelona. Owner Veronika Fazekas told our magazine that the first two weeks proved there is great interest for...

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The law regulating the relationship of suppliers and retailers took off well

Márkaklub had a special meeting at FOODAPEST: on 1 January, the Act on the prohibition of unfair market conduct by the suppliers of the food product life cycle entered into...

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Organic eating: the key to the future or passing fad?

Why is the proportion of organic products rising rapidly abroad, while in Hungary it remains the same? Is it because they are too expensive? Is society still unwilling to trust...

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The price of flavours

In the gastronomy of the modern world, sous vide is in the same situation everywhere: some adore it, while others do not want to use this method. This cooking method...

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Food import went downhill

KSH registered a moderate increase in turnover in its latest report: in November 2009 export grew by 3 percent and import augmented by 1 percent, if we compare it with...

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Signal Anti-Age fogkrém

The latest innovation by the researchers of Signal is Anti-Age toothpaste, which helps to fight the signs of aging and to preserve a youthful, healthy smile....

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Ham producers communicate via packaging and schedule price promotions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Facing the challenge in New York – part 6

From July Roland Oláh, formerly the chef of Café Erté, tries his luck in the USA. He regularly reports to our magazine: ‘I thought I would not have to work...

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Supermarkets dominate in Bulgaria

Nielsen’s ShopperTrends revealed last year that sales in almost each category were the highest in supermarkets. Hypermarkets replaced traditional shops as the second most important channel. Researchers interviewed the main...

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Burn Shot

Burn Shot creates a new, innovative segment (Energy Shot) in the energy drink category in Hungary. The product’s advantage is that it stimulates as much as the 250-ml versions, but...

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Organic food products cope with the crisis rather well

Market researchers say that in most countries the crisis did not decrease the demand for organic products. However, Hungarian retailers say the growth has stopped. In Europe’s leading ‘organic states’...

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New meat sales director at Kométa

From 1 January 2010, András Lengyel is the new sales director of KOMÉTA ’99 Zrt.’s meat branch. András Lengyel (40) started his career at Unilever Magyarország Kft. in 1994 and...

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Non-food categories perform well at Henkel

Henkel group’s washing-household cleaner and cosmetics branches did well last year: the former expanded by 2.9 percent, while the latter realised a 3.5-percent growth. Due to the economic crisis, the...

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Energy drinks kept flying high last year

While value sales of the 90 food categories measured by Nielsen grew by 2 percent on average, energy drinks skyrocketed with 18 percent in December 2008-November 2009. The annual market...

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Educational macro analysis

László Sólyom’s Wise Men’s Board and its team of experts recently published its book ‘Szárny és Teher’, which places great emphasis on improving the level of education in Hungary. Representatives...

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Retail still flying low

Retail sales continued to decline in November, according to KSH’s quick report. Volume sales of retail stores were down by 5 percent in the first eleven months of 2009 and...

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Popai Hungary

Enter the competition 11 February-7 May 2010 is the period assigned to enter the POPAI Awards UK&Ireland competition, in 18 categories. Results will be announced in July. GlobalShop 2010 On...

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