Foreign subsidiaries largely compensated for the losses caused to the group by the war and Hungarian government measures, with after-tax profit falling by only 24% to HUF 347 billion last year compared to a year earlier, Deputy CEO László Bencsik said at a press conference presenting OTP Group's last year's report on Friday. He pointed […]

The electric vehicle charging market in Hungary is also looking promising, but the really spectacular development will only start afterwards, the international consultancy firm KPMG has warned, based on a study of its own. According to the summary sent to MTI, there is a huge business opportunity in electric vehicle charging worldwide due to the […]

Hungary’s central bank Governor György Matolcsy slammed the Cabinet’s economic policy making, claiming it “took a wrong turn” ahead of the outbreak of war in neighboring Ukraine. The criticism shows a widening rift within the ruling Fidesz party, which could pose a new risk for the country. György Matolcsy, governor of the National Bank of […]

The Hungarian industrial and logistics real estate market closed a record year in 2022 in terms of rental volumes, new developments and investments in the countryside, the Hungarian Association of Logistics Service Centers (MLSZKSZ) said in a statement. According to their information, last year 482,000 square meters of new industrial and logistics real estate developed […]

The execution of the first green power purchase agreement on the Hungarian market, under which Nap Plc. will provide a part of the electricity needs of a production company in the long term, has started, the CEO of Nap Plc., Gábor Földvári, said at a press conference on Thursday. The so-called Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) […]

Feed producer UBM Holding has set a strategy to reach HUF 350 billion in sales by the end of 2025, based on the fact that the focus of livestock farming will gradually shift from Western Europe to Central and Eastern Europe, thus increasing the demand for quality feeds, the company announced at a press conference […]

Erste Bank had a successful year in 2022, with lending growth and operating income up, but profits lower than in the previous year due to one-off tax and regulatory charges, Erste CEO Jelasity Radovan has told a press conference in Budapest. He added that two acquisitions were successfully completed last year, the takeovers of Commerzbank […]

Österreich Werbung (ÖW), the Austrian National Tourist Office, is Austria's national tourism marketing organization supported by the country's Federal Ministry of Labor and Economics and the Austrian Chamber of Commerce. The figures available from 2021 (still a pandemic year) show that Austria welcomed 22.1 million guests (including 12.7 million international tourists), who spent 79.6 million […]

The employment intention of businesses has strengthened in Hungary, with around a quarter of firms planning to hire staff, while the share of those thinking of making redundancies is again below 10%, according to the K&H bank’s latest SME confidence index research. The statement highlights that companies are preparing for an average 11% salary increase, […]

Consumer prices were 25.4% higher on average in Hungary in February 2023 than a year earlier, the Central Statistical Office reports. Food inflation is over 43%. The highest price rises were measured for electricity, gas and other fuels as well as food over the last twelve months. In one month, consumer prices increased by 0.8% […]

11, mostly elderly, chronic patients died last week (up from six in the previous week), bringing the official total number of deaths in this country to 48,762, the government's Coronavirus Press Center said on Wednesday. 878 new infections were confirmed in the past week (slightly down from the previous week), bringing the total number of […]

On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Count Gyula Andrássy, an open-air photo exhibition on the history of Andrássy Avenue is on display on one of the best-known roads in the Hungarian capital. Count Gyula Andrássy was born two hundred years ago, on March 8, 1823. The open-air exhibition commemorates the […]

Dutch-based Trive Financial Holding has acquired the Hungarian financial institution Sopron Bank, which will henceforth serve its customers under the name Trive Bank Hungary Plc., the financial group said in a statement sent to MTI on Tuesday. The document says that the bank will operate fully digitally, offering consumer loans and later also fixed deposits […]

The volume of industrial production declined in Hungary in January 2023 by 0.2% year-on-year. Based on working-day adjusted data, production dropped by 3.2%, according to a report published this Tuesday by the Central Statistical Office (KSH). According to seasonally and working-day adjusted data industrial output was 5.1% lower than in December 2022. Out of the […]

Hungary’s largest motor vehicles importer, Porsche Hungaria opened an Innovation and Training Center (ITC), located just outside Budapest, last October. With a huge automotive training and transfer capacity, the center – considered by experts to be an outstanding educational facility on an international level – welcomes technical and sales professionals from all over the country […]