Positive trends in Europe

Food retail turnover grew by 4 percent in terms of value and by 1 percent in volume in the first three months of 2010 – informs Nielsen based on data from 21 countries, including Hungary. In Hungary, 3 percent less food, household chemical and cosmetics products were sold in retail than twelve months earlier. This is slightly positive trend after minus 4 percent in the last quarter of 2009.

A growth in volume sales was measured in Norway (by 7 percent) and Finland (5). In terms of value, food stores performed 4 percent worse in the examined period than a year earlier (the last quarter of 2009 brought minus1 percent) in Hungary. Value sales also fell in the Czech Republic (by 3 percent) and Ireland and France (2).