On a recent business tour to Singapore a group of Hungarian technological startups were given a chance to attract local venture capital firms and meet high ranking officials of the state administration. The feedback was positive, and preparations are now underway to make business deals in the upcoming months.
Singapore is a good place for Hungarian companies to make money locally and elsewhere in South-East Asia. Diplomacy&Trade asked Miklós Horváth, president of the Hungarian Foreign Trade Association (HFTA) how to prepare successful business deals in this city state.
Hungarian frozen bakery products company Fornetti has been bought by Switzerland’s Aryzta for an undisclosed sum, the financial website portfolio.hu reported former Fornetti managing director József Szabó as saying. Aryzta is to invest into Fornetti EUR 1 mn this year.
More than just superficially trendy, Hungary is trending – that’s the phenomenon when a topic in online and social media or a stock on the sharemarket shows high levels of public interest and activity.
Engineers at the Center for Budapest Transport (BKK) have assembled the world's largest tram produced by the Spanish company CAF in Beasain, in the Basque Country province of Spain. Budapest ordered 12 of these 56-meter-long Urbo models.
From young program coordinating producer on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno in Los Angeles to owning and running the iconic, 101 year old Déryné Bistro and Grill in Budapest, is not an average career path. Nor is 41 year old Kristóf Kovács an average sort of tv producer or indeed restaurateur.
Budapest Airport has welcomed its one millionth passenger in a single month, for the first time in its history. Tamás Hadik and his wife, from the Qatar Airways flight from Doha, were in for a special surprise as the passenger count reached 1,000,000 in July.
"I came back from the US to Hungary with a business plan for an IT company, and it is highly satisfying to see that idea now a thriving business with almost 100 employees." says Peter Freed, founder of Duna Elektronika.
LogMeIn, a Hungarian born startup company has grown to become one of the world’s leading SaaS companies with over 800 employees in eight offices around the world. Its Budapest-office remains one of the most important development base.
In the early 1990s, market based privatization was the main incentive for foreign investment in Hungary. With privatization virtually complete, Hungary’s main focus in attracting FDI has increasingly shifted to products and services incorporating high value added elements. That is the case with the American investors as well.
George Hemingway is a self confessed opportunist, an autocrat – “a benign one” he quickly qualifies – but above all, a builder, not so much of buildings, though that, too with a new Bozsik stadium on the way, but of “organizations, businesses".
American technology has been leading the world for decades. Giants such as
General Electric (GE), Microsoft, Apple, HP and others have contributed much to the world and represent a huge added value. And spend billions of dollars for R+D and marketing to defy Asian competitors.
Growth prospects for the European economy are showing improvement in 2015, which creates greater business confidence in office tenants. This is already having an impact on the demand for offices, which increased by 4% year-on-year. The tightening supply of prime office space in Europe is causing prime rents to accelerate.
As the private investments' market heats up in Europe, owners of venture capital (VC) firms and private equity (PE) investors try to find good partners in Hungary too. Transactions happen every month and a good sign is that they happen not in the IT sector only but in the business products and services segment as well.
Neumann Society (NS), a transatlantic non-profit organization working to foster innovation among Hungarians and other Europeans in Silicon Valley announced the opening of Neumann House, its physical headquarters and community space in Redwood City, California on June 1, 2015.
