Lego Manufacturing Kft., the Hungarian subsidiary of the Danish LEGO group increased its net sales by 11% and its profits by 13% last year, the company told the Hungarian news agency MTI. In 2016, the Group closed its best year in its 85-year history.
27-year-old Hungarian researcher Gergely Raccuja, living in Britain since 2011, has won the most prestigious British economics prize, the Wolfson Economics Prize, which the second largest recognition in economics in the world after the Nobel Prize,
The 17th FINA World Acquatics Championships that takes place in Budapest in the next two weeks was declared open Friday night by Hungarian President János Áder. The opening ceremony took place on a stage built on the river Danube.
License plates for diplomats in Hungary have changed. What used to be a format of the letters DT plus four numbers is now of the letters CD plus six numbers. The first three numbers indicate the country and the second three numbers the status of the user of the car.
Balogh Tészta Co. Ltd, one of the biggest pasta makers in Hungary, inaugurated its new plant in Tiszakécske in the presence of PM Viktor Orbán. The new plant, built with EU support, has the initial output capacity of 2,250 kilograms per hour.
The Hungarian Government has acquired and repatriated the final seven pieces of the 'Seuso-treasure', a unique, priceless, ancient Roman silver treasure. The announcement was made in the Hunting Room of Hungarian Parliament in Budapest.
A special livestock shipment set out from Budapest Airport this Wednesday: Hungarian breeding calves were flown to Qatar for further breeding. The special charter-charter flight was completed by a Boeing B-777F aircraft from Qatar Airways Cargo.
In May 2017 and in the initial five months of 2017, the industrial sector posted output growth of 8.8% and 5.7%, respectively, compared to the corresponding period of the previous year. Thus, Hungarian data have beaten corresponding EU averages.
Fornetti has opened its FFB (Fornetti Food and Beverage) exhibition bakery at rhe Octogon in Budapest. The new store has a self-service system and will be an important part of international expansion in the future, the daily Világgazdaság writes.
A photo exhibition opened at the 25th anniversary of the Sziget Festival at the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center in Budapest this Tuesday. The exhibition "Sziget 25 - Festival History in Photos" is open until August 31.
“There are positive relations between Malta and Hungary, and we intend to progress these relations through maintaining an open dialogue between the nations," the Prime Minister of the Mediterranean island country, Joseph Muscat tells Diplomacy&Trade.
Temperature reached 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees on the Fahrenheit scale) in Budapest this Monday afternoon, followed by a severe storm late at night. Southeast Hungary experienced even higher temperature: 38 degrees Celsius (101 degrees F).
Budapest hosted the first meeting of foreign ministers of the new V4 Hungarian presidency this Monday. The meeting of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia was joined by the representatives of Austria, Slovenia and Croatia.
Hungary's trade surplus was EUR 913 million in May this year, up 170 million euros from the same month a year earlier. That is according to the latest figures published by the Central Statistical Office and quoted by the Hungarian news agency MTI.
LOT Polish Airlines has announced to create a direct air link between Budapest and the United States as of next May. Flights four times a week to New York City JFK and twice a week to Chicago O'Hare airports will commence in May 2018.
