The leading French pharmaceutical company Sanofi is to establish a Center of Excellence in Budapest, the Hungarian Investment Promotion Agency (HIPA) announced. Initially, a hundred people will assist Sanofi subsidiaries in the field of accounting, HR and finance in seven languages, however, the center will be expanded to 350 persons by 2022. Sanofi was founded […]
GS Yuasa's first factory on the European continent is now complete. Through its EUR 28.8 million plant in Miskolc, the Japanese battery producer will supply its European automotive partners manufacturing electric vehicles (EV) with lithium-ion resources, further strengthening Hungary's position in electromobility, the Hungarian Investment Promotion Agency reports. The Hungarian government has contributed 465.3 million […]
The Hungarian capital's largest exhibition site, Hungexpo will refurbish and modernize existing pavilions, build two new exhibition halls, a new reception building and a congress center by 2021, the company said. The budget of the investment project is HUF 55 billion. The foundation stone of Hungexpo's revitalization development was laid on Monday. The press release […]
The American company Arconic that specializes in lightweight metals engineering and manufacturing has announced that its Hungarian subsidiary, Arconic-Köfém Ltd., received the 2019 Chain Bridge Budapest Award. Launched in 2017, this prize is awarded each year by the Hungarian Investment Promotion Agency (HIPA) to the company that makes the greatest contribution to the development of […]
Germany’s Thyssenkrupp has decided to move its Budapest-based automotive industry development center to a bigger location in the capital and increase the headcount by 100 employees over the coming years, online newspaper piacesprofit.hu reports. The center is relocating to a 16,000 sqm area in the South Buda Business Park where the company will have nearly 30% more […]
Japanese automotive component manufacturer Denso, which has been present in Hungary since 1997, has inaugurated its new logistics center in Székesfehérvár, SW of Budapest . The 17,000-square-meter logistics center is stocked with basic materials used in manufacturing as well as semi-finished and finished products. It comes with an investment of HUF 18.5 billion (some EUR […]
The aluminum casting plant of the French automotive supplier GMD Group is now running on full capacity in Dorog, NW of Budapest. Its construction required an investment of over EUR 65 million, which made the plant the company's most modern and most efficient site in Europe. The investment was executed by GMD Cast Hungary (founded […]
Following a strategic overview started earlier this year, Swedish home appliances manufacturer Electrolux has decided to initiate a plan to improve efficiency throughout the Group. This Tuesday, the company also announced a plan to outsource parts of its current manufacturing in Hungary and invest in its Nyíregyháza refrigerator plant. The efficiency measures and redundancies related […]
METRO PROPERTIES, the real estate company of METRO AG, sold the real estate of 11 Cash & Carry stores in Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic in a sale-and-leaseback transaction. The portfolio has been acquired by FLE GmbH, Vienna, a subsidiary of the French LFPI Group, investing on behalf of an AIF regulated fund. The transaction […]
As a second step of Bridgestone's EUR 29.5 million investment project, the Japanese company has raised the warehouse capacity of its factory in Tatabánya by 50%, which now exceeds 600,000 tires. In addition to building a new warehouse, the company has also increased its manufacturing capacity and modernized its artificial intelligence-based tire production machines. As […]
Retail chain ALDI will expand the competence and headcount of its Information Technology service center in Pécs, southern Hungary, the Hungarian Investment Promotion Agency (HIPA) says. The headcount of the center is set to nearly double. The center supports the IT system operations of 3,800 European ALDI stores and 55 logistics centers. ALDI opened its […]
The first production line manufacturing potentially reduced-risk, innovative products has started operation at the British American Tobacco factory in Pécs, southern Hungary. In the framework of an EUR 23.8 million investment, tobacco-free nicotine pouches are soon to be produced on five additional production lines. As a result of the development creating 60 new workplaces, the […]
German businesses settling in Hungary have been important players in Hungary in the three decades since the fall of communism and contributed to the creation of market economy in Hungary, Finance Minister Mihály Varga said at the jubilee celebration of Continental Automotive Hungary Ltd. established in 1989. The Finance Minister highlighted that the performance of […]
Hungarian electric car sharing service GreenGo is entering the Czech market, offering the chance to environmentally-conscious drivers to use their cars in the Czech capital, according to a press statement by the company. Budapest-based GreenGo was the first service provider to introduce electric community driving in Eastern Europe at the end of 2016. Their fleet […]
Budapest-headquartered transport and logistics company WABERER’S INTERNATIONAL Co. Ltd said its revenue in the second quarter of 2019 decreased by 6% to EUR 173 million. The decline is due to lower volumes in the aftermath of the end-of-March Brexit date affecting Q2 trade flows negatively in the international segment. The 7% growth in Regional Contract […]
