News and articles
Sales prices of industry growing
Date: 2009-03-03 12:24:47
According to Hungarian National Statistical Office the domestic sales prices of industry rose by 0.9% in January 2009 compared to the previous month and were 4.4% higher than in January...
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HUF 350 bln for R+D in Hungary
Date: 2009-03-03 12:15:35
A map of the subsidies was published by R+D minister Károly Molnár at a symposium. About HUF 350 billion in grant money to support research and development as well as...
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Competition Commission to introduce code to protect supermarket suppliers
Date: 2009-03-03 12:13:57
The Competition Commission in the UK will introduce a new code of practice for supermarkets to enhance competition and ensure the fair treatment of suppliers. After investigations last year the...
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Body Shop To Cut Jobs
Date: 2009-03-03 11:41:31
The company said it is consulting employees about proposals to reduce its global workforce by 275 jobs to make the business more efficient. The Body Shop, which employs 9,200 people...
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Drastic Sales decreasing in Lithuanian
Date: 2009-03-03 11:10:22
Sales at food retailers were down 10.2% year-on-year, while non-food retailers suffered more, with sales down 20.6%. Sales at Lithuanian retailers in January slumped by 27.2% on a year-on-year basis...
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U.S. consumer spent more in January
Date: 2009-03-03 10:35:42
The January gain followed a drop of one percent in December 2008 and was even better than the 0.4 percent increase that economists had expected. U.S. consumer spending rose 0.6...
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The value of GKI’s economic sentiment index has been falling
Date: 2009-03-02 06:28:39
According to the survey conducted by GKI Economic Research Co. with the support of the European Union, business expectations deteriorated even more sharply in February than in January, whereas the...
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Less coffee consumption decreasing as awaited
Date: 2009-03-02 06:23:05
Valdo Café made a survey between its 100 big clients about the effects of the financial crisis on coffee consumption in Hungary. According to the survey there is a small...
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Retail investments increased in 2008
Date: 2009-03-02 05:21:26
The annual value of investments came to HUF 4791.5 billion at current prices. Within this HUF 1835.2 billion were spent on investments in the fourth quarter of 2008. According to...
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Returnable packaging contra selective waste collection
Date: 2009-03-02 05:14:07
There are several methods in the EU for collecting of packaging waste. Öko-Pannon Kht. and Ministry of Environment and Water organised a conference about this. The participants of the event...
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Lidl Seeks to Repair Image
Date: 2009-03-02 05:04:00
Europe's biggest discount supermarket chain is trying to fix its image after last year's revelations that it spied on staff. In an interview with SPIEGEL ONLINE, Lidl's purchasing chief Robin...
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Subvention cut is misproportioned – assures the Hungarian Chamber of Agriculture
Date: 2009-03-02 04:55:11
The organisation said the government encroaches on principle of proportion and equitableness. The chamber asks for extending the quarantee of the government for agricultural integrators. The Hungarian Chamber of Agriculture...
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Tesco's agressive price cutting in Britain
Date: 2009-03-02 04:47:00
The retailer was planning to cut prices on 3,000 lines, from fresh meat to baby food, stepping up the pressure on the rest of the industry as it heads into...
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Asda to launch SYM TV
Date: 2009-03-02 04:38:00
Wal-Mart-owned company is driving down the cost of the weekly shop for its hard-pressed shoppers. The supermarket has already cut 7,500 prices since January, and this weekend will see the...
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Antitrust fine on pasta makers in Italy
Date: 2009-03-02 04:23:00
The Italian antitrust authority has fined 26 pasta manufacturers a combined total of E12.5m, for practices that were said to be impeding competition. The regulator said the companies, along with...
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Nespresso expands offer in Hungary
Date: 2009-02-27 13:31:42
The company introduced its new mashine type CitiZ and several Grand Cru coffes in Budapest. The new line of Nespresso slim coffee machines, the CitiZ will be available in March....
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Unilever-Próbakő cooperation continues
Date: 2009-02-27 13:14:29
The PR agency works for Knorr's new ad campaign about common eating. Knorr made a research about eating habits in Europe, also in Hungary. Responders said the family eating make...
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Nestlé Nutrikid Olympic finished
Date: 2009-02-27 12:46:02
The common program of Nestlé Hungária Kft. and the Hungarian Dietetic Association focused on prevention of child obessity. School using the Nutrikid teaching program could take part on Nutrition Olympic....
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Milupa had chosen digital ad agency
Date: 2009-02-27 12:18:42
The food producer call 3 agencies for tender. The winner is EURO RSCG Digital. The tender was first of all about on-line media-planing and -buying and SEO/SEM marketing, but the...
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SMS campaigns by Tesco
Date: 2009-02-27 11:49:13
The retail chain built an own SMS club, a database where consumers, who are interested in price actions, can joined. Tesco think with SMS actions company can faster reflect on...
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From Monday no more daily inventory
Date: 2009-02-27 11:26:18
Restaurants will only be obliged to make a complete registry of alcoholic consumption only once a month from March. Hungarian parliament accepted a change to the regulation on catering establishments...
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International award for Rózsavölgyi Csokoládé
Date: 2009-02-27 10:50:25
The Academy of Chocolate Awards, now in their 4th year are an important event in the International chocolate calendar. The Academy of Chocolate was created in 2005 by 5 of...
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Henkel sponsors Icehockey World Championship
Date: 2009-02-27 10:26:25
The company is donating 50 euros for every goal scored during the tournament, with the total sum going to a children’s aid project. Henkel, the international branded consumer goods manufacturer,...
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Food Makers Pump Up Fiber Contents
Date: 2009-02-27 10:12:21
According to Datamonitor's Product Launch Analytics, the percentage of new food products touting high fiber contents is up in markets like the U.S. In the U.S., the percentage of new...
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Nestle reduces product sizes
Date: 2009-02-27 09:35:05
The world's largest food company will sell more products in smaller quantities in the United States and Europe as customers seek to cut their shopping bills. Reduced product sizes will...
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Financial crisis speeded up the changes in consumption pattern
Date: 2009-02-26 10:44:39
Hungarians spent less in milk, processed meat and detergent categories, but gave the same for paste, cheese, yoghurt and hygienic supplies. According to think tank GfK, the negative tendence in...
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Hungarians bought more suppressed in December
Date: 2009-02-26 10:19:17
According to Hungarian Central Statistical Office's data, the volume of retail sales decreased by 3.9% in December, and by 2.1% in the whole year compared to the same period of...
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Hungarian Product Grand Prix 2009
Date: 2009-02-26 10:15:13
Companies can entry the competition till 22th Mai, this time in 16 categories. The inviters think, that the most important aspects of the 12th Hungarian Product Grand Prix: innovation, active...
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Extech Data Systems Introduces Apex 3 Thermal Printer
Date: 2009-02-26 09:59:01
Reflecting recent market needs, Extech has changed the standard communication options available for the printer. Short Range Bluetooth™, designed for WPAN, and Serial communication is standard on the Apex 3....
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Reborn of Hotel Szilvás
Date: 2009-02-26 09:46:44
The La Contessa Mansion Hotel opened on Valentine's Day in Szilvásvárad. The former Hunguest Hotel Szilvás has been transformed into a 4-star hotel. The budget for the first phase of...
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