The Hungarian Joint Venture Association (JVSZ) that celebrates its 40th anniversary recognized companies doing the most to support the Hungarian economy, society and sustainable future at the Companies for the Future Award ceremony in the Buda Castle this week. Ágnes Fábián, president of the JVSZ, emphasized that the association’s predecessor had already played an important […]
Klaudia Pataki, the mayor of Kecskemét, southeast of Budapest, presented Markus Schäfer, a member of the board of Mercedes-Benz AG, with the Key to the City award at a ceremony in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Budapest on Tuesday. Speaking at the ceremony, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó called […]
The László Bíró Award, named after the the Hungarian-born inventor of the first commercially successful ballpoint pen, has been awarded this year to Lídia Demján. The award recognizes people who have made a substantive and key contribution to promoting relations between Hungary and Argentina in the field of culture. At the award ceremony held this […]
Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai was presented with the Nobel Prize in Literature by Swedish King Carl Gustaf XVI at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony in the Stockholm Concert Hall on Wednesday. In her opening address, Astrid Soderbergh Widding, chair of the Board of the Nobel Foundation, stated that "the prize in literature is awarded to […]
At this year's Procurement Bar event, the Sustainable Procurement Awards were once again presented to recognize outstanding players in the domestic procurement and sustainability industry, rewarding domestic companies and procurement teams with responsible, ethical, and environmentally conscious procurement practices. The award was decided by an independent professional jury. During the evaluation of the nominees, aspects […]
The nineteenth edition of Hungary’s most prestigious banking sector competition, the 'Mastercard – Bank of the Year', has concluded. This year, the competition was revamped, with the nine award categories grouped into three main segments: in Daily Banking, OTP Bank delivered the most outstanding performance; in Innovation, K&H Bank took the lead; and in the […]
Tourism in Hungary is booming, and ‘Ferihegy’ [as Budapest’s Ferenc Liszt International Airport is commonly known] is Europe's fastest growing airport, Minister of National Economy Márton Nagy said at the Michelin Guide awards ceremony in Budapest on Tuesday evening, where he also thanked Hungarian gastronomy for its achievements. This year has been a record year […]
The Hungarian Association of Executives has held the Manager of the Year Awards for the 29th time and the Manager of the Year Award 2023 has been awarded to Radovan Jelasity, CEO of Erste Bank. The Hungarian Association of Executives awards the prize to an outstanding top manager on the basis of his or her […]
Despite the challenges, the BUX index rose by 38% in HUF and 49% in USD last year, the second best performance in the world after Nasdaq, Richárd Végh, CEO of the Budapest Stock Exchange (BSE), said at the BSE Best awards gala on Thursday, where capital market players with outstanding performance were honored in 25 […]
