Retail

Retail Sales Rise 2.4% Year-on-Year in August

Hungary’s retail sector showed further signs of recovery in August 2025, with retail trade volume rising 2.4% year-on-year in calendar-adjusted...

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Hungarians Spend More Online Abroad Than at Home for 1st Time

Hungarian e-commerce reached a milestone in the second quarter of 2025, as domestic consumers spent more in foreign webshops than...

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Hungary’s Retail Sales Edge Up 1.7% in July, Slip 0.5% From June

Hungary’s retail sales grew in July compared to a year earlier but slipped slightly from the previous month, according to...

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JYSK Opens 101st Hungarian Store in Körmend, Marks 20 Years in the Country

Danish retail chain JYSK has opened its 101st store in Hungary, continuing its expansion strategy with a new 1,000 sqm...

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Westend Launches First Hackathon to Redefine Visitor Experience

The Westend shopping center in Budapest, part of the Gránit Pólus Group, has launched its first-ever competition aimed at elevating...

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Electronic Shelf Labels to Benefit Spar Staff and Shoppers

As part of its continued roll-out of digital innovations in Hungary, electronic shelf labels are now in use in more...

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Hungary’s Retail Sales Rise 3% Year Over Year in June

Hungarian retail sales grew by 3% in June 2025 compared to the same month last year, according to both raw...

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Retailers Hit by Special Taxes, Price Caps, Waning Purchasing Power

With a faltering economy resulting in January-May retail sales increasing by just 2.1% year-on-year, the outlook for the sector would...

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Hungarian Online Shoppers Increasingly Want Time-specific Deliveries

As age increases, so does the importance of being able to choose delivery times for online orders among Hungarian consumers,...

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Auchan Magyarország Launches Local Suppliers Program

Auchan Magyarország launched a local suppliers program in cooperation with Magyar Termék Nonprofit at its store in Debrecen on Thursday,...

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Mandatory Food Markups Cap Reduces Prices Around 20%

Prices of food products affected by a mandatory cap on markups have fallen by 20% on average since the government...

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Diego Reopens Largest Shop-in-Shop Store in Zugló

Home décor and flooring retailer Diego has reopened its largest shop-in-shop location inside the Tesco hypermarket in Budapest’s Zugló district,...

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Clicking Toward Happiness: 9 out of 10 Hungarians Impulse Shoppers

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Large Stores Mandated to Have Till Operated by Cashier

The parliament has adopted legislation making it mandatory in retail stores larger than 400 sqms to have at least one...

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Government Proposes Stricter, Personal Permit-based “Mall Stop” Rules

The government has released a proposal for public consultation to amend the regulation referred to as the “mall stop” law....

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Hungary Retail Sales Rise 4.9% in July

Retail sales in Hungary rose by about 4.9% year-over-year in July in both raw and calendar-adjusted terms, while sales increased...

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Corporate, Retail Lending Post Double-digit Growth in Hungary

Corporate and retail lending portfolios at Hungarian banks both expanded at double-digit rates in the 12 months to the end...

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Marking 30 Years, Penny Hungary Makes Record Investment

Penny Hungary is carrying out a HUF 13.5 billion investment at its logistics center in Alsónémedi (25 km southeast of...

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Pek-Snack Builds Regional Footprint in 9 Countires on Frozen Bakery Goods

The Hungarian-owned Pek-Snack Group ended 2025 with stable revenue, higher after-tax profit and a stronger export contribution, widening its sales...

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How Retail Tech and Digitalization are Democratizing FMCG

Cutting-edge technology is becoming increasingly accessible in retail. Reaping its benefits is incredibly relevant for a notoriously price-sensitive Hungarian FMCG...

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Russian Discount Chain Mere Shuts Only Hungarian Store

Russian ultra‑low‑cost chain Mere has closed its only Hungarian store, the Basket Plus in Budapest, less than a year after...

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Hungary’s Grocery Market Growing, but the Weekly Shop Being Rewritten

Food retail turnover is up, but modest real-volume growth and the expansion of digital purchasing suggest that the FMCG market...

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Hungary Retail Sales Rise 3% in June, Edge Down From May

The volume of retail sales in Hungary increased 3% year-on-year in June on a calendar-adjusted basis, but fell 0.4% from...

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Tesco Reportedly Prepares Sale of Central European Operations, Including Hungary

Tesco is moving ahead with plans to sell its Central European businesses, with its Czech and Slovak operations to be...

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Making Physical Retail Units Work Harder

Physical stores remain a crucial link between producers, consumer goods companies, retailers and households, argues György Suta, consumer products and...

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Hungarian Retailers Press for Sectoral Tax Rollback

Hungary's National Commerce Association (OKSZ) pushed for the rollback of a sectoral tax on retailers, state news wire MTI reports,...

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Hungary Retail Sales Rise 4.8% in May, Up 0.7% Month-on-month

Retail sales in Hungary increased by 4.8% year-on-year in calendar-adjusted terms in May and rose 0.7% from the previous month,...

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Hungary E-commerce Market Concentrates Around Biggest Players

Alza again topped PwC’s E-toplist of Hungary’s largest online retailers, followed by Kifli.hu and MediaMarkt in the same order as...

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Lidl Hungary Launches Scan & Go Pilot in 3 Stores

Lidl Hungary introduced a Scan & Go system yesterday in three pilot locations, allowing customers to scan items with their...