CRU Hungary has won HUF 557 million in European Union and state grant money to support the development of a multimodal diagnostic platform in Encs, NE Hungary, the clinical research company told MTI. According to the announcement, the development is based on the coordinated processing of blood-based biomarker analyses and digital health data collected using […]
The foundation stone has been laid for the sterilization plant at the syringe manufacturing base of the medical products manufacturer Becton Dickinson in Környe (NW Hungary). The EUR 42.2 million project is expected to create 25 high value-added jobs. Becton Dickinson (BD), specializing in the production of medical devices, announced this investment in December 2025. […]
Five Hungarian furniture makers are showing at the Ambiente international consumer goods fair in Frankfurt on February 6-10, Creative Hungary has announced. The showcase of Econor Design, KARA + CO, Loomiosa, Rotte Group and YOZA is organized Creative Hungary (formely called Hungarian Fashion and Design Agency). According to the announcement, the collective presence under the […]
Dreher Breweries Plc. held a ceremony to mark a key milestone in the first phase of its decade-long, EUR 240 million development program. The event also saw the signing of a Strategic Cooperation Agreement with the Hungarian government. As a result, Dreher Breweries Plc. became the government’s 103rd strategic partner. The company continues to operate […]
The internationally well-known pianist and conductor performed with the world's leading orchestras and conductors, and worked with more than a hundred orchestras as a conductor. Tamás Vásáry was born on August 11, 1933, in Debrecen and began his musical career as a young boy: at the age of ten, he became a student of Ernő […]
The Hungarian Franchise Association has awarded Duna House the "Domestic Network Successfully Expanding Abroad" award. The award confirms the results of the group's European expansion: the Hungarian-founded company now has a presence in Hungary, Poland, Italy and Spain with real estate networks and bank-independent credit intermediation services, Duna House told MTI on Friday. They recalled […]
Last year, people in Hungary returned more than 3 billion beverage containers (bottles, cans and glass bottles) through the MOHU REpont return system, which is almost 90% of the beverage containers that entered the market, MOHU, the company in charge, told MTI on Tuesday. They pointed out that before the introduction of the MOHU REpont […]
Last year, approximately 1.17 million tons of crude oil were extracted from Hungarian fields, the highest figure in the 2000s. Approximately two billion cubic meters of natural gas were extracted, with production exceeding this level last seen in 2013, according to a joint statement by Hungary's Ministry of Energy (EM) and the Supervisory Authority for […]
Low-budget air carrier Wizz Air remains committed to the Hungarian market in the long term and will continue to strive for stability, reliability and predictability in the future, the CEO of the airline, József Váradi emphasized at a background briefing in Budapest this week. He emphasized that Wizz Air is a Hungarian airline that started […]
Sales in Hungary of Swedish home furnishings giant IKEA rose 4.4% to HUF 144 billion in its business year ended August 31, IKEA Hungary said in a statement. According to the assessment, the key to the year's success was continuous price reductions. The company has provided customers with a total of 6.5 billion forints in […]
The documentary 'Queen of Chess', chronicling the life of Hungary's Judit Polgár, the greatest female chess player of all time, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this Tuesday. Directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Rory Kennedy, the film explores Judit Polgár's extraordinary journey. "Two years ago, Rory Kennedy approached me about making this documentary," the former chess […]
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, "in the first place, we commemorate a Hungarian national tragedy, of which we were a part both with several hundred thousand innocent victims and having participated on the side of the perpetrators" the head of the Prime Minister's Office, Gergely Gulyás was quoted by MTI as saying at a commemoration […]
Take-up on the industrial property market in and around Budapest reached 261,600 sqm in the fourth quarter, the Budapest Research Forum (BRF) said on Tuesday. According to a summary sent to MTI, the largest handover of the quarter was the first hall of CTPark BudapestÉrd, with a floor area of 53,000 sqm. New leases accounted […]
The number of new passenger car registrations in Hungary rose 6.4% to 129,440 in 2025, data compiled by the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA) show. Hybrid electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles accounted for 56% of sales, cars with petrol engines made up 24% and vehicles with diesel engines 11%. Fully-electric vehicles accounted for almost 9% […]
Investors became more cautious as buyers, but remained very active as sellers on the real estate market in 2025, real estate broker Duna House told MTI on Monday. According to the company's data, investment purchases accounted for approximately 23% of total national turnover for the year as a whole, down from nearly 27% at the […]
