We kindly invite you to participate in an online survey made by the German-Hungarian Chamber of Industry and Commerce, about operating in Central and Eastern European states, including Hungary. BCCH is assisting them to transmit this survey towards more prospective participants.
The poll analyses the economic situation and the business climate in Hungary. Identical surveys are being conducted simultaneously for 15 further countries of the CEE region. The survey is conducted online, it takes about 10 minutes to answer the questions.
Users may freely select one out of the 3 languages (Hungarian, German, English) to answer the questions and data protection is guaranteed according to the guidelines of the DUIHK.
The deadline for submitting answers is March 1, 2019 (Friday). The results of the survey will be made public in early April.
We are pleased to show you the official video of the BCCH Christmas Party! Special thanks to Hammel & Hochreiter and Mr Marcell Virágh for the excellent cinematography!
Kempinski Hotel Corvinus Budapest is delighted to announce the appointment of
Ms Alexandra Schmidt
Director of Sales and Marketing
Kempinski Hotel Corvinus Budapest
Alexandra represents herself as a true Kempinski ambassador having started her career in 2005 as a Conference and Banqueting Sales Coordinator in Budapest. Five years later she joined the Kempinski Gozo team as Director of Sales. During her three years there, she led her team with great passion to achieve outstanding hotel revenue results as well as successfully managing marketing projects of the Hotel.
Returned to Budapest in 2013 as Director of Sales, she was responsible for managing the sales teams and became an established Sales & Marketing expert known as an inspiring leader. In her new position and with her deep knowledge of the Hungarian market, the global market trends and sales conversion strategies, she will be a key player in achieving our Sales goals working closely with the Marketing team to consistently deliver beautiful performances.
A Hungarian national, Alexandra is fluent in Hungarian, German and English. She graduated at the University of West in Hungary with a Master in Economics and Marketing.
Our fellow member, Investors in People has just come out with their latest research about the employee sentiment trends in 2019. Click hereto read this informative, in-depth analysis based on a survey completed by 2000 people.
We kindly invite you to participate in an online survey made by the Association of Adult Educational Enterprises (FVSZ) about the human (mainly educational) needs of companies of domestic and foreign interest operating in Hungary.
We truly believe that the subject – educating and training adults at different organisations in Hungary – is essential regarding the country, the economy and last but not least the future of your business. After a thorough analysis, the summary of the findings supplemented with the professional proposals of FVSZ will be presented to the policy decision makers.
We are aware that answering the questions trustworthily requires quite a little of your precious time but it would have made no sense to shorten this questionnaire otherwise we couldn’t have achieved the desired aims i.e. professionally established results. To simplify your work you can answer the questions online.
Congratulations to Mr Zoltán Gelencsér, the Financial Director of Vodafone Hungary for earning the CFO Master 2018 award. The award is given to those CFOs who achieve extraordinary performance, we are proud to have such a prominent person amongst our Foundation Members!
JAGUAR LAND ROVER CONFIRMS TECHNICAL ENGINEERING OFFICE IN HUNGARY
●Jaguar Land Rover to open a new technical engineering office in Budapest to support the company’s European supply chain management
●100 roles will complement corporate, R&D, engineering and manufacturing functions headquartered in the UK
●Hungary is in close proximity to many key automotive suppliers and has a strong track record of automotive engineering talent
Friday 2 November 2018, Coventry: Jaguar Land Rover confirms plans to create a technical engineering office in Hungary, opening in early 2019.
Engineers in Budapest will work alongside Jaguar Land Rover’s supply chain located in Europe to support the launch of vehicles into the company’s global manufacturing locations.
Nick Rogers, Executive Director of Product Engineering, said:
“Hungary has a strong track record in automotive engineering. We have chosen it as the location for a new engineering office to enable close collaboration with our suppliers located in central and Eastern Europe. The team in Budapest will complement the suppliers and supplier technical assistance that we already partner within the region, as well as our teams in the UK.”
The office in Budapest joins Jaguar Land Rover’s engineering network in the UK, Republic of Ireland, China and North America.
Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Government of Hungarysaid:
“Today’s announcement by Jaguar Land Rover marks a new chapter in the Hungarian automotive industry as we welcome a new premium OEM to our country. The decision of the UK’s largest automotive manufacturer to open a technical engineering office in Budapest reaffirms our foreign direct investment strategy and in particular our specific focus on high-quality automotive-related growth.”
We would like to thank all of the participants for coming to the Budapest Airport Tour. It was a truly interesting, yet very entertaining event! We would like to say thank you to Budapest Airport for offering us the opportunity, and we are also grateful to the co-workers for the professional organisation. Special thanks to Mihály Hardy, the Communications Director of the Budapest Airport Zrt. for guiding us through the spectacular sites while entertaining us with stories about the institution. It was an unforgettable experience!
The British Chamber of Commerce in Hungary would like to thank you for attending the BCCH x FirstMed Family Day on 8 September 2018 at Academy Golf Budapest. We hope you found the event entertaining and that we will soon have the pleasure of welcoming you again.
We would like to thank our organising partner FirstMed for sponsoring the event, for the excellent programmes and for their efforts to make the event a success, as well as our generous sponsors who contributed to the success of this event: Tesco, Budapest British International School, Britannica International School Budapest, PwC Hungary, Lego Serious Play and USchool Hungary for all their help and support and Academy Golf Budapest for providing the venue. Special thanks to Photon and Sára Volom for capturing the best moments of the day.
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As every year, the BCCH has participated in the bud:runway run 6.0 once again, and we can say we had loads of fun! It’s not a surprise, that our Executive Director Csilla Csurgai performed excellently as always! Special thanks to Budapest Airport for organising the Runway Run charity every year, it is always a pleasure to run for a good cause!
After six years as PwC Hungary’s Country Managing Partner, Nick Kós will be moving on to a new role as CEO for the CEE region, with effect from 1 July 2018. He will be succeeded by Tamás Lőcsei, PwC Hungary’s Tax & Legal Services Leader.
The USchool Hungary Final had been held last Friday at Brainbar with the participation of the top 5 teams pitching their ideas to a jury of six distinguished business leaders.
Barcode to identify allergic ingredients (team GrEAT), sensor-enabled climbing wall (team LED) and fighting food waste through food truck food (team Rekame)– these were the top three project ideas that will represent Hungary in the international student startup competition in Ljubljana in a few weeks.
Under the Chamber’s leadership, we coordinated mentors to work with selected students in the BCCH Club while the entire program grew from 22 students to 96 students participating this year. Please read more about the programme here.
Múltheti, a brit nagykövetséggel és a Hiventures-szel közösen szervezett konferenciánk, a 'Come, See, Succeed - The UK offer for startups' kapcsán írt rólunk a Piac & Profit. Azokat a cégeket, amelyeket érdekelnek a szigetországbeli lehetőségek többféle forrásból is tájékozódhatnak: a nagykövetség és a kamara mellett az Egyesült Királyság nemzetközi kereskedelemfejlesztésért felelős kormányhivatalának, a Department for International Trade (DIT) helyi képviseleténél is. Az akcelerátorok között a szigetországban is kiemelt szerepet játszik a világ számos pontján jelen lévő és húsznál több ipari programot futtató Startupbootcamp, amely eddig 580-nál is több vállalkozásnak nyújtott átlagosan egymillió eurónyi támogatást.
Gender diversity, forced quota for women in leadership, positive discrimination... all hot topics in corporate discussions, debates.
It might be controversial, but I don’t believe in gender quotas, I don’t believe in forced equality. For the mere fact that I believe in equality, as such...
For one happens to be born with a certain set of DNA it is by no means describes that a person is more (or less) able to be successful in a role or be a better leader than the other. Women and men tend to – but not always – hold different qualities, abilities.
We are observed as more emotionally driven, our soft skills work on a wider scale, can be more talkative, engaging and other than collect the essential fruits and veggies to support the tribe’s needs, we operate the quintessential grapevine that holds teams – as big as societies – together.
Men, on the other hand, can often better focus on one single thing, see longer perspectives, weight consequences better, protect and provoke in order to win and by that move forward successfully. They hunt, capture, achieve and compete. A highly recommended good read on the topic is Harari’s Homo Sapiens (and Homo Deus, as well).
So shall we force this or that potential benefit to a society or on an organisation?
Date: 5 March 2019, 12.00-14.30 (Registrations from 11.30)
Venue: Sofitel Budapest Chain Bridge, Belle Vue hall ( 1051 Budapest, Széchenyi István tér 2.)
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