BÉT50 companies - 2018
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Their knowledge is their strength - Transmoduls Kft.
17 Oct 2018
Lajos Sári and Márton András Maár, Executive DirectorsThe Veszprém-based industrial automation and machine manufacturing company Transmoduls Kft. is growing rapidly. Their number of employees may even double within five years.
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Solid foundations, electrifying plans - Tungsram
17 Oct 2018
Joerg Bauer, President and CEOHungary has recently regained a large enterprise with a Hungarian decision-making centre. With a tradition of innovation that goes back more than 120 years, its current plans are no less ambitious: in ten years, its CEO wants to transform Tungsram – that already employs approximately 5,000 people – into a company with a revenue of USD 1 billion and a strong global presence on the lighting market.
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Hungarians in international cancer treatment development - Turbine Kft.
17 Oct 2018
Szabolcs Nagy, Co-founder and Executive DirectorTurbine Kft. has – with the cooperation of an artificial intelligence researcher, a medical researcher, and an economist – created a piece of software that can be used to digitally model inter-cellular processes. This is a major challenge, but if they can achieve success beyond their partial results, validated by the pharmaceutical company Bayer, they may revolutionise pharmaceutical research worldwide.
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Crisis-proof treats - Tutti Kft.
17 Oct 2018
Ottó Prohászka, Executive DirectorTutti Kft., a manufacturer of ice cream and dessert powders and cocoa products, grows by 5 to 10% in an average year. Their expansion is due not only to their flexibility, but also to their constant product development.
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Building on solid foundations - újHÁZ Centrum
17 Oct 2018
Dr. Csilla Rázsóné Szórády , managing directorBy joining together local builders’ merchants, újHÁZ Centrum turned the model of combined buying into reality a good two decades ago. Today, however, they are much more than a purchasing company. Our activities are more diversified, and we have more ambitious plans. The eighty dealerships and their owners are in a great measure indebted to the agile, ambitious company manager who succeeded as making her way as a woman in this male-dominated industry.
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What’s up? - W.UP
17 Oct 2018
Béla Bodnár, CEO
Eszter Kolozsvári, Chief Sales OfficerThe greeting “What’s up?” is what lies behind the company’s name, W.UP. It was in the spirit of this informal greeting that the youthful company, started in 2014, but already much bigger and more mature than a start-up, went to knock on the doors of the banking IT market. The quickly-growing mobile and bank application development company of more than 110 employees is already looking at the global sector.
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Company builders - Wallis Asset Management
17 Oct 2018
Zsolt Müllner, CEOLong-term value creation is not only a great slogan for the Wallis Group, it is also present in their everyday operations. A clear proof of this is that the Group’s flagship car companies will soon go public through the already-listed Altera, and will obviously target the premium category.
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Cost reducers - Webeye Telematics Group
17 Oct 2018
Levente Tóth, Chief Commercial Officer
Pál Németh, CEOWebEye Telematics Group, a company specialising in GPS tracking and truck fleet management, is the market leader in the CEE region, while its Hungarian subsidiary, WebEye Magyarország Kft., is the market leader in Hungary. The company intends to go public five years from now.
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25 years of uninterrupted development - Weinberg ‘93
17 Oct 2018
István Derczó, Executive DirectorThis year, Weinberg ‘93 has celebrated its silver anniversary, as it were. Indeed, owner István Derczó founded the company and began to building halls 25 years ago. Since then, they have also expanded to include the manufacture of steel structures. The Sárospatak company’s range of activities has been increasing ever since, as the management is committed to offering services with an ever greater added value.
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From bubbles to success story - Wellis Magyarország Kft.
17 Oct 2018
Czafik Ákos, founder and managing director
Czafik Zsolt, founder and CEOThe Jacuzzi manufacturers from the “wild east” started out as the laughingstock of the first trade shows they appeared at; today, they sell the most outdoor Jacuzzis in Europe. Wellis dared to dream big: headquartered in Dabas, Hungary, the company became the market-leading manufacturer of Jacuzzis, a luxury product, in less than 15 years.