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Retailers Mostly Advertise Food Products in Leaflets

Seasonal publications flourish

Budapest, 17th August 2005. – The market of leaflets was stagnating during the first half of 2005 – the Nr. 55 Report entitled Strategic Letter released by GfK Hungária Market Research Institute has found. The publications of hypermarkets and cash&carry stores mostly feature non-food products, while their proportion is a lot lower in supermarkets, discount stores and drug stores. Three quarters of the advertised FMCG products on sale come from the food category.

After analysing the 30-month data of GfK’s Leaflet Monitor first published in 2003, it can be established that the dynamics of the leaflet market was unchanged in the first half of 2005. The number of published leaflets stagnated during the first half of the year, the number of advertised products decreased in some categories, especially due to the fact that retailers put a greater emphasis on the clearer and more structured layout of the publications instead of the higher number of advertised products. The distribution of leaflets is also more and more sophisticated.

Non-food products make up the highest proportion – even up to 50% - of the  hypermarket and cash&carry publications. Publication of seasonal leaflets is typical, especially connected to the beginning of the school year, Christmas, New Year’s Eve and Easter. High quality publications connected to vintage and presenting both the wines of Hungarian and foreign wineries and the essential accessories (cheese, glasses) are gaining more and more prominence.
Non-food products are present in the leaflets of supermarkets, discount stores, drug stores and groceries as well, but their proportion is considerably lower (10-20%).

Chains usually adjust the publication date of their leaflets to that of their competitors’, and as a result of the shopping habits of Hungarian consumers, their validity period usually includes two weekends.

The presence of private label products is more and more prominent in leaflets, though stagnation could be observed in this respect during the first half of this year. Generally it is true that more private label products appear in leaflets during the first half of the year than in the July-December period. The presence of private label products is the strongest in the food, tinned vegetable and fruit, cold cuts and soft drinks categories.

Seventy-five per cent of the FMCG products advertised in leaflets come from the food category and 25% from the chemical products category. Traditionally, drink categories are the most advertised ones, meat products come second and long-life food products have a stable third place (e.g. sugar, cereals etc.). Cosmetics have the highest proportion in the chemical category (about 50%), followed by washing and cleaning agents.

Top 10: Food categories advertised in leaflets, First half of 2005

The survey has been conducted by GfK Market Research Institute, Hungary’s leading market research institute.

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