News and articles
Balaton-wines received most awards again
Date: 2009-04-14 09:39:33
Wines from the Balaton-area have received most awards at one of the strictest international wine-competitions Vinitaly inVerona, Italy. Seven out of thirty Hungarian competitors have received Gran Menzione-award, and four...
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87% of shoppers are making changes in reaction to the recession
Date: 2009-04-14 09:35:57
87% of UK households are making changes in reaction to the recession – according to new research by Shoppercentric, an independent agency specialising in shopper behaviour research With more than...
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New EU-rule scaring Hungarian wine-experts and manufacturers
Date: 2009-04-14 09:32:51
European Union is about to launch a new regulation which may mean serious danger to Hungarian winery, allowing manufacturers to produce rosé by mixing red- and white wine – Hír...
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Slovakian customers doing all major shoppings in Hungary
Date: 2009-04-14 09:29:08
More and more stores in Győr allow customers to pay in euro, whereas Slovakian supermarkets near the border are missing their old customers and see a 40 percent decrease in...
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Global Innovation Technologies Expo, first time in Budapest
Date: 2009-04-14 09:26:33
The first Global Innovation Technologies Expo is about to take place on 10th-11th June in the European Congess Center in Budapest, to provide Central European entrepreneurs with new technological information....
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Fifty percent of Central-Europeans are pessimistic
Date: 2009-04-14 09:23:18
Almost 50% of Poles, Czechs and Slovaks fear that the world crisis will affect their families’ future, according to the March-results of a poll released by CBOS. Forty-eight percent of...
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New premium-category coffee-drink by Illy and Coca Cola
Date: 2009-04-14 09:20:30
Coca Cola and Italian coffee firm Illy are launching a ready-to-drink luxury coffee in parts of Europe and the US, hoping it would claim 30 percent of the market by...
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Wine distillation support from EU source
Date: 2009-04-14 00:06:14
Those producers who has a fix delivery contract with commercial distilleries can receive wine distillation support. According to the statement of the Agriculture and Rural Development Office, an applicant is...
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Consumer-expectations deteroriating according to GKI
Date: 2009-04-10 10:08:02
Consumers are even more pessimistic in now than they were months ago – according to the forecast of GKI Economic Research Co. prepared in co-operation with the European Union. Since...
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Food Codex finally signed
Date: 2009-04-10 10:05:10
After much waiting, the Food Codex has finally been signed on Thursday. 80% of products would be of Hungarian origin starting from 1st July. As known codex-trials bled between dealers,...
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Campari is doing better than the rest of the market
Date: 2009-04-10 10:01:27
Italian drinks company Campari is „going very well”, in fact better than the rest of the market – CEO Bob Kunze-Concewitz pointed out in Milan this week. He was speaking...
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Instant food and sandwich materials benefit from the crisis
Date: 2009-04-10 09:57:33
Mega-manufacturers with a variety of brands (like Kraft and Nestle) are benefiting from the recession as at-home dining is on the rise – says a London-based consumer market research firm...
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No change in the price of cereals and grain in general
Date: 2009-04-10 09:53:50
The second greatest grain-production of history is about to come, but there is no effective demand due to the crisis, so grain-prices are not going to change – Hungarian Agricultural...
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One billion euro rights issue by Pernod Ricard to get out of debt
Date: 2009-04-10 09:49:58
Pernod Ricard is putting debt-cutting at the top of its agenda as it refinances last year's acquisition of Absolut vodka maker Vin & Sprit in still tough credit markets, and...
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Fashionable coffee-drinks for young people produced a 20 percent rose in Germany
Date: 2009-04-10 09:45:24
Germany's coffee sales rose by 7,140 tonnes on the year in 2008 to 519,160 tonnes, Germany's coffee industry association pointed out. New, fashionable coffee drinks and an expanding coffee shop...
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American retail-chains doing slightly better
Date: 2009-04-10 09:41:59
Sales at U.S. retailers declined less than expected in March in a sign that shoppers may be regaining confidence to open their wallets after more than a year of recession....
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Glass-scandal still going on in Sweden
Date: 2009-04-10 09:39:51
The Chief of Security for the trade federation representing Sweden’s supermarkets believes the incidents of glass found in meat products over the past fortnight may have been inserted into the...
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A site where customers and owners may have a word with each other
Date: 2009-04-10 09:35:23
The review Web site Yelp, which has garnered some criticism from the businesses put under its microscope, will soon let those businesses and others respond publicly to customers' critiques. In...
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What sort of customers are baby-boomers?
Date: 2009-04-09 04:09:15
According to data provided by KSH, 37 percent of the Hungarian population is over 50 – what are their habits as consumers? The truth about fifty-something agrgroups is that there...
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Consumer trust index keeps deteroriating
Date: 2009-04-09 04:02:19
Nearly two-thirds of those being asked are convinced that Hungarian job-possibilities are not satisfactory – a survey by Nielsen about consumer-trust. Six people out of ten, at the age of...
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Starbucks opened in Poland – and probably all over Eastern Europe in 2009
Date: 2009-04-09 03:56:16
Starbucks opens its First store in Poland – AmRest Sp. expects to capture an increasing share of the rapidly growing coffeehouse markets in Central and Eastern Europe. The coffeehouse segment...
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Hungary is the third biggest turkey-consumer country of the world
Date: 2009-04-09 03:52:10
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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Three out of four Hungarians are regular coffee-drinkers
Date: 2009-04-09 03:48:05
Over 76 percent of the Hungarian population is a regular coffee-drinker, and most people – especially those over 30 – tend to drink more than one cup a day. The...
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Agricultural chamber helping entrepreneurs to provide EU with data
Date: 2009-04-09 03:44:17
The European Union makes it compulsory for each agricultural entrepreneur to provide them with data about their business, he Hungarian Agricultural Chamber may be of great help when it comes...
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The finest Stella Artois beer is being produced by Borsodi Brewery Plc
Date: 2009-04-09 03:38:19
Borsod Brewery Plc., Hungarian factory of AB-InBev has won an international quality prize for beer-producing developments realized in 2008. The prize awards the company for producing premium-category global trades like...
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Shepherds on the verge of going bankrupt in spite of the season
Date: 2009-04-09 03:34:34
There is an increasing interest in sheeps, shepherds still do not make any extra cash due to the gradual weaking of forint. Even though most seasonal products associated with the...
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Even foreign tourists make their reservation in the last minute
Date: 2009-04-09 03:30:44
According to fresh data by KSH, Budapest hotels faced a less than 32.2 percent traffic, and not even the Easter-season attracts more guests. The number of guests per night has...
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Royal vodka introducing their new lid and bottle design
Date: 2009-04-09 02:11:00
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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Consumers “eat what tastes good” rather than what's healthy
Date: 2009-04-08 05:25:19
Purchase frequency per buyer has been declining since 2005, though the crisis has brought about an upswing in the uindulgent snack-business. However, healthier snacks have been less affected, and both...
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New four-star hotel in Budapest
Date: 2009-04-08 04:27:49
A four-star hotel is about to be built in Budapest by next summer: constructions of the new Continental Hotel Zara have started on Tuesday at the location of Hungária-bath. Investor...
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