150 Years of Budapest's Transport History is the subject of a tabloid exhibition entitled Budapest 150 - Public Transport in the Age of Unification, on display in the capital from this Monday to May 15. The exhibition, illustrated with a number of contemporary photos, shows the transport conditions in Pest-Buda in the 1800s and can […]
ÉS Bisztró at Kempinski Hotel Corvinus Budapest opened in April 2013 in collaboration with the Zsidai Group. During the ten-year period, the restaurant has received numerous awards and recognitions, a press release by the hotel says Ten years ago, a Hungarian gastro evolution took place, which made going to restaurants fashionable among the younger generations […]
Starting on Monday, April 17, the six-day Wunderbar Festival will be open to audiences interested in German culture, film, science and gastronomy with around 200 events across Hungary. The Wunderbar Festival is jointly organized by the Austrian and Swiss embassies, the Goethe Institute, the Austrian Cultural Forum and the Austrian Institute, according to a statement […]
The March of the Living was held again this year in Budapest in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. Thousands of people marched in the Hungarian capital to demonstrate against all forms of exclusion and prejudice. Speakers stressed the importance of remembrance, the responsibility of contemporaries and the role of education. As the Chairman […]
The Budapest Stock Exchange (BSE) share index fell in the four-day trading week, with the BUX closing at 43,285.23 points on Friday, the last trading day of the week, 2.11% or 932.62 points lower than the closing price of the previous four-day trading week, MTI reported Sunday morning, along with a brief analysis. Turnover on […]
Companies that view their employees as partners and work with them to create sustainable work models that enable employees to get the best out of themselves are the ones that can succeed, according to Deloitte's Global Human Resources Trends 2023 research, the results of which were released to MTI. The business and management consulting firm […]
Feeling the need to respond to changes in the automotive industry and the market in general, the retail- and wholesale distribution and mobility services business AutoWallis Group is to publish its first sustainability report. The Group, listed on the Budapest Stock Exchange, is a company operating in 14 countries in the Central and Eastern European […]
The pork processing company Topesa Ltd. has more than doubled its capacity by modernizing its slaughterhouse with a HUF 445 million investment, the managing director of the company, László Somogyi informed MTI. He reported that the Hungarian-owned company, which produces half-skinned pigs, used HUF 269 million of EU and domestic subsidies to purchase a slaughterhouse […]
The latest investment of MERKBAU Plc. was inaugurated this Friday: a joinery and carpentry plant built with a budget of more than HUF 2.5 billion. For the investment, the more than 30-year-old company, which is based in Kiskunhalas, S Hungary, received government support of nearly HUF 1 billion. The company's latest investment, inaugurated in a […]
The number of guests in commercial accommodation decreased by 1% and the number of nights spent decreased by 0.4% in February 2023 compared to February 2022. The number of domestic guests decreased, while the number of foreign guests increased, according to data by the Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH). The published figures suggest that 552,000 […]
The TritonLife Group has opened the first imaging diagnostic center in Veszprém in the North Balaton region, equipped for special examinations, the private healthcare provider informed MTI on Friday. According to the statement, the center was equipped with the most modern technology and TritonLife spent one billion HUF on its development. The 680-square-meter diagnostic center […]
Hungary’s deteriorating relations with the US took a turn for the worse as Washington announced a series of sanctions against Russia that also affected Hungary. This was the first time since the start of the war in Ukraine that an entity based in Hungary, a NATO and EU member, was sanctioned. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Viktor […]
Last week, 17 chronic patients, most of them elderly, died, bringing the total official number of deaths related to the new coronavirus infection to 48,828, the government’s Coronavirus Press Center told MTI, presenting last week's aggregate figures. It said 447 new infections were confirmed in the previous week, bringing the total number of identified infections […]
The international energy company Shell has opened the region’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) filling station in Hungary. According to a statement by the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, transport accounts for around 20% of greenhouse gas emissions, of which 70% is from road transport, with trucks responsible for two-thirds. There are two […]
In February 2023, the volume of industrial production declined by 4.6% year-on-year in Hungary. The working day adjusted index is equal to the non-adjusted one, the Central Statistical Office reports. Production dropped in the majority of the manufacturing subsections, at the same time the production volume increased in the largest weight carrying manufacture of transport […]
