UNIQA Biztosító and its legal predecessor have been active on the Hungarian insurance market for 20 years. General director Othmar Michl, who has held the position for seven years, spoke to The Budapest Times about current challenges and the future of the company.
The merger of five Hungarian Schenker units in September made Schenker Kft the second-largest Hungarian transportation company. Árpád Vásárhelyi, one of the company’s three directors together with Ferenc Péter Kovács and László Káldor, spoke to The Budapest Times about the background to the merger and the challenges facing his company.
}Anyone who thought the Audi factory was already massive will need to find a new word for it. According to a recent board decision of Audi AG, the factory will more than double its size. The Budapest Times spoke to Thomas Faustmann, managing director of Audi Hungaria Motor Kft, about the decision.
In the past months the Austrian Peter Haric has been a frequent guest in Budapest. His company, Triple A AG, is working intensively to reorganise the marketing activities of a bank for small- and medium-sized businesses in Hungary to give it greater market penetration. During his most recent visit The Budapest Times asked him about his Hungarian project and more generally about the principles and goals of his work.
Top Manager in Discussion: Frank Klein, CEO of Mercedes-Benz Manufacturing Hungary. The fact that the investment of Daimler AG in Kecskemét is progressing so well is due in no small part to Frank Klein, who has been in charge of the factory development since February of this year as CEO of Mercedes-Benz Manufacturing Hungary Kft. The Budapest Times spoke to him on-site about how the construction work is going and the milestones to come.
Top Manager in Discussion: Dr. László Balázs CEO, director of corporate & treasury and Zoltán Kiss Deputy CEO, director of retail from Volksbank Hungary. Volksbank Hungary is predicting that big banks will get bigger in the next five years while only those niche players with an appropriate business model will remain in Hungary.
Top Manager inâ€?Discussion: Margit Labancz, director of MKB Bank’s financial institutes, syndicates and business development divisionMKB Bank assists logistics companies in their domestic and foreign trade activities with advice, selection of the appropriate payment method and mediation between sellers and buyers, says Margit Labancz, director of MKB Bank’s financial institutes, syndicates and business development division.
Interview with Christian Beck, marketing director of Cora Magyarország Kft.The economic crisis has had a significant effect on the product range policy of the seven Hungarian Cora hypermarkets. The Budapest Times spoke to the French marketing director of Cora Magyarország Kft. Christian Beck, who has lived in Hungary for 11 years, about this development and other consequences of the crisis.
Outsourcing as driving force behind growth. Interview with Jürgen Grunert, commercial director of IT Services Hungary Kft. Almost in the shadow of Magyar Telekom, another Deutsche Telekom company in Hungary has also grown to a considerable size. The 100% T-Systems subsidiary IT Services Hungary Kft. currently employs 2,000 staff at its two sites in Budapest and Debrecen. That number is to grow by a further 20% within a year. The Budapest Times spoke to the company’s commercial director Jürgen Grunert about that process and the significance of the firm in terms of division of work within the Deutsche Telekom Group.
In interview: Jane Thompson, headmaster at British Internationalâ€?School, Budapest and John Hart, BISB’s new Head of Secondary School
