HungaryTrends – The week in business and finance
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Top business and finance stories from the last week:
ERICSSON INAUGURATES EUR 56M BUDAPEST HEADQUARTERS
Swedish networking and telecommunications company Ericsson inaugurated a 56 million euro headquarters and R+D centre in Budapest. Hungarian developer Wing built the 24,000sqm centre and will lease it to Ericsson for a period of seven years. More than 1,700 of Ericsson Hungary’s 2,000 employees work at the site on the banks of the Danube, and over 1,400 of these staff are R+D-focused. Read more HERE.
GROUPAMA ARENA: THE PROFITABLE STADIUM
Could a football stadium be profitable in Hungary? It seems to be entirely possible. The growing income this year at the Groupama Arena seems to prove that. Read more HERE.
RENTABLE SCOOTER NETWORK LAUNCHED IN BUDAPEST
Online business magazine Forbes reports that Budapest is about to see its first public scooter network, blinkee.city. A Polish company operates the electric scooters and Hungary is their first foreign partner. Read more HERE.
GOVERNMENT SIGNS STRATEGIC COOPERATION PACT WITH US OIL GIANT EXXONMOBIL
The Hungarian government signed a strategic cooperation agreement with US oil giant ExxonMobil in Budapest on Friday. Read more HERE.
MET GROUP UNDERGOES MANAGEMENT BUYOUT
Benjamin Lakatos, the CEO of energy trader MET Group, bought out his partners in the company, including Hungary’s MOL, to become majority owner. MET said it plans to draw in further capital to implement a growth strategy. MET, based in Switzerland, trades about 8 percent of the gas consumed in continental Europe.