The energy costs of most domestic firms at least tripled last year. The increased charges have forced companies to pass on costs to customers and to invest in energy efficiency, according to a survey of 70 medium and large Hungarian companies by Ernst & Young. Eight out of ten companies saw their energy costs at […]
Since its foundation in late 2017, Napelem Szerelő Kft. [Solar Panel Installer Ltd.] of Szeged in SE Hungary has been helping to supply the Hungarian market with green energy with a steadily increasing performance, managing numerous subcontractors. The company, as Managing Director Rudolf Mészáros tells Diplomacy&Trade, is now expanding to Austria, where it will continue […]
Silver coins of the Turkish period and a tin-lead alloy ring have been found on the outskirts of Nemesvámos in Veszprém County. At the presentation of the find, Regional Development Minister Tibor Navracsics said: as several times before, this time too, volunteers found the important piece, and the participation of civilians in the search for […]
The value of Hungarian exports in EUR terms was 15% and that of imports 14% higher in January 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 78 million. Compared to the previous month, the level of export […]
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 […]
