'People here are very professional, very well-educated, which is, of course, very important for our business”, says Herbert Fisch of BASF Hungária, adding that his company sees great potential in Central Europe.
Bitter pills may have blessed effects, they say. But why choose torturing when the same goals can be achieved smoothly, nicely, without any pain? With Angels' Kitchen, culinary meets psychology for the best results.
In the past five years, the French owner of the Hungexpo fair and exhibition site has spent EUR 50 million, including the purchase price, to develop the area of 36 hectares that now has 70,000 sq meters of covered exhibition area in Budapest.
The business climate has been "challenging" for the last couple of years but there is a slow recovery seen now. That is according to Adrian Ellis, the director of Corinthia Hotel Budapest, the largest 5-star hotel in the Hungarian capital.
The city has seen an abundance of civil initiatives in recent years which are independent of state or corporate sponsorship, work in a not-for-profit model, and complement the offer of large staterun museums and galleries.
The first and foremost task of the British Chamber of Commerce in Hungary is to help its 180 members conduct business with good services and events. Also the Chamber is to represent British business values in Hungary.
Hungarian-born Hollywood movie producer Andrew G. Vajna talks to Diplomacy and Trade magazine about his business interests in the Hungarian capital where he was born and the city that he left in 1956 to leave for the United States.
"We are widely recognized as being a country that is engaged in Hungary with a lot of project work." These words by the British Ambassador to Hungary, Greg Dorey to Diplomacy and Trade magazine well reflect his activity in fostering bilateral ties
Transparency International believes that while Hungary’s perceived level of corruption has remained the same, the CE European average has slowly but steadily improved. Hungary has been losing its favorable position in the region both in terms of corruption level and competitiveness.
As Hungary prepares for its presidency of the European Union, the basic message its government wishes to convey echoes one of the pieces of advice our first king, Saint Stephen gave his son some one thousand years ago: unity built from multiplicity.
Yesterday, the Faculty of Humanities of Eötvös Loránd University celebrated the 375th anniversary of its foundation. A prominent intellectual power of scholarly life, the university has been and still is a center for educating Hungary’s intellectual elite.
Following the inaugural gathering in September this year, the DT Business & Culture Club (The Club) held its first monthly networking event in the Corinthia Hotel Budapest this week. The main speaker of the evening was the British Ambassador, Greg Dorey.
British Telecom came to Hungary in 1999 with the aim of planting roots in East Central Europe and providing service for its clients in this region, as well. Although, the structure and the products and services have changed since, this aim has not.
The change of the social, political and economic system in Hungary in the late 1980s and early 1990s and the subsequent privatization boom brought together the Hungarian ‘Ormai and Partners’ law office and the British legal firm McKenna.
