Budapest Stock Exchange

György Váradi, owner

A family business with more than half a century’s experience in air conditioning and air engineering is a rare indeed. The secret to their success, however, required more than just a solid base of experience and competence – it also took good business acumen. In today’s Hungary, one out of ten air conditioners comes from Columbus Klíma, a company that has its headquarters in Nagytarcsa, Hungary. 

Rózsa Balázs, CEO, Szabó Erik, deputy general manager

The management of CyBERG Corp. is convinced that their company is set to become a global IT giant. Although they are currently working on creating an international restaurant franchise, their business model will later be based on digital services sold through the restaurants’ touchscreens. 

Márton Szebeni, managing director 

The formula is simple. If you look at your energy bill, it has two main items on it: quantity and unit price. The mission of the CYEB Group is to cut energy consumption by making corporate production processes more efficient and to reduce the unit price through its energy trading services. This works quite well.

Ferenc Bátor and Sándor Megyeri, owners

The most important goal of DM-KER Kft. is to increase its share on the market of agricultural machines, besides its major position on the market of construction machines. In addition to the sales of machinery, the company has gained its prestige through the sales of high-quality parts and servicing, and sees its revenues growing dynamically each year.

Róbert Kő, CEO

Dorsum Informatikai Fejlesztő és Szolgáltató Zrt., which started 22 years ago in a bachelor flat in Budapest, now has 250 permanent employees (if we count the subcontractors, then the number of employees leaps up to 300). The company and its products are now known from London to Dubai.

István Gulyás, managing director

Instead of poor quality mass-produced products, Félegyházi Pékség established its reputation with high quality bakery products, and then started to actively build up its own brand. This Hungarian multigenerational family business had a total revenue of HUF 7 billion in 2017, a total headcount of almost 1,000, and nearly 90 own shops all over the country. They achieved all that by saving a mass production bakery from perishing, and then considerably extending it in the early 2000s.

Zoltán Bíró, managing director

This metalworking enterprise that has been in business for 27 years started out at Tápiószőlős, in the garage of a home. At the time of the regime change in Hungary, Zoltán, the son of Ferenc Bíró, joined the company. Now Zoltán’s two daughters, both in their twenties, are continuing this three-generation family business.

Károly Palásti, managing director

Károly Palásti was forced to start his own business, a plastic galvanising plant. Today, however, he thinks that there is no major car manufacturer they are not supplying.

Dr. László Szilassy, founder and managing director

Gamma Digital Kft., a two-decade-old industrial automation company, deals with system integration and develops self-driving forklift operating systems and customised control engineering data collection systems. The 100% Hungarian company is committed to Industry 4.0. It designs and implements cutting-edge solutions for the pharmaceutical and automotive industries, and for intralogistics. Due to the results they have achieved, the management of this medium-sized enterprise with 120 employees has recently been contacted by both Hungarian and international investors.

Katalin Pintér, owner and managing director

It was at the turn of the millennium that Katalin Pintér took over management duties at the renowned Gerbeaud café. Breathing new life into the somewhat neglected enterprise, the catering expert went on to open Gerbeaud cafés in major cities around the globe. Also owned by the company are Onyx, a restaurant that earned two Michelin stars, and Émile on the Buda side of the Hungarian capital.