Aldi Hungary has launched its second electric truck, which will serve stores in downtown Budapest with zero local emissions, the discount supermarket chain informed MTI on Friday. The statement highlighted that they have expanded their fleet with a Scania three-axle, 27-ton special refrigerated box truck. The new truck is powered not only by batteries, but […]
Market Építő Plc.'s turnover last year exceeded HUF 308 billion, while the overall profit per parent company of the building construction company was HUF 25.731 billion, the company announced on the Budapest Stock Exchange (BSE) website on Friday. According to the report, net sales increased by HUF 11.763 billion to HUF 308.880 billion. The overall […]
The volume of industrial production in Hungary declined in May 2023 by 6.9%, year-on-year. The same figure for the same month in the euro zone was a decrease of 2.2%. As the country's Central Statistical Office reports, production in Hungary dropped in the majority of the manufacturing subsections, however, the production volume increased in the […]
The chocolate factory in Szerencs, NE Hungary celebrates its 100th anniversary. The centenary is celebrated in several stages in the town. In honor of the anniversary, one of the factory's iconic sweets, the cat's tongue, will also appear on a stamp. He added that thirty-six stampable sheets of the cat's tongue-shaped adhesive stamp have been […]
The pharmaceutical firm Teva Gyógyszergyár Plc. has built a new, specialized production facility in Debrecen worth more than USD 2 million (HUF 673.6 million). The significance of the investment is increased by the fact that the development of the product manufactured in the facility was also carried out by researchers in Debrecen, the company told […]
The Hungarian e-commerce market is expanding with a new player: the OTP Group has announced the launch of its webstore fizz.hu. Forbes.hu reports that the bank's employees will start testing the webstore in a closed round next Tuesday. According to the newspaper's market sources, a sharp launch is expected by the end of the summer. […]
One of Europe's leading transport and logistics companies, Gebrüder Weiss (GW), will be the first tenant of the Pt2 warehouse in HelloParks Páty Megapark. The company will lease 22,000 sqm of the 42,000-sqm industrial property, currently under development as the second building of the industrial park, less than 10 kms west of Budapest, and will […]
The 17,000-square-meter production hall to be built in District 15 of the capital by Market Építő Plc. has reached its structural completion stage. The new hall will expand Siemens Energy's site and will be used to manufacture components for gas power plants. Construction is scheduled for completion in the last quarter of 2023, the construction […]
India's Liberty Steel has been selected as the winning bidder in the tender for the Dunaferr iron and steel plant in liquidation in Dunaújváros, central Hungary. The news was announced by the Ministry of Economic Development. The ministry's statement recalled the steps leading up to the tender and underlined that as the next step in […]
All Bosch Group products and solutions are planned to either incorporate artificial intelligence (AI)-based technology or will be developed and manufactured with the help of AI this year, the company told MTI on Monday. The company had originally set this as a target for 2025, but is on track to implement plans two years earlier, […]
The total Industrial & Logistics (I&L) property sector stock for the CEE-12 region has grown to exceed 65 million sqm, with 25 million sqm situated in and around the 12 capital city markets, the international property consultant company Colliers says in its latest report. Poland, as the largest country of the group covered in this […]
The value of Hungarian exports was 5.2% higher, while that of import 5.4% lower in EUR terms in May 2023 than in the same period of the previous year, the Central Statistical Office reports. The balance of the external trade in goods improved by EUR 1.3 billion. Compared to the previous month, the level of […]
The 5th International Family Firm Conference organized recently by the prestigious Corvinus University of Budapest, brought together experts and successful business leaders from Hungary and abroad to shed light on the immense potential of family businesses in Hungary and the challenges they are facing. The conference, where the main focus was HR activities, delved into […]
In the WittyLeaks series, Diplomacy&Trade regularly publishes the personal accounts of ambassadors and other diplomatic mission leaders accredited to Budapest. As I stepped into the role of the Ambassador of Egypt to Hungary, little did I know that this opportunity would lead me on a remarkable journey of discovery, cultural immersion, and friendship. From the […]
BUX, the stock index of the Budapest Stock Exchange (BSE) weakened this week amid falling turnover, closing at 49,891.95 points on Friday, 1.22% lower than a week earlier, MTI reported this Sunday, along with an analysis of the week’s trading. The weekly turnover of the stock market was HUF 32.04 billion, up from HUF 35.32 […]
