Gallery
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
ALFÖLDI LLC.
Catching up to the leaders in the field
Year by year, Alföldi Tej has been growing dynamically and innovating continuously. The aim of its CEO is to create a procurement community from its members.
Motto: From Hungarian producers for Hungarian consumers!
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
ALPHA-VET LLC.
Versatile market leader
Already in 2010, a survey by Hungarian financial weekly HVG named Alpha-Vet Animal Health Ltd. as one of the top 100 most productive Hungarian service providers. Currently, Alpha Investment Holding LLC., of which Alpha-Vet Animal Health Ltd. is a member, is a market leader in Hungary in the manufacture and distribution of veterinary medications and animal feed.
Motto: Promoting agriculture productivity and the well-being of our pets.
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
BIGPRINT HUNGARY LLC.
Two steps ahead of the competition
BIGPRINT is a uniquely situated player on the printing market: due to its size, it is in a position to perform all workflows from design to execution in house.
Motto: In the visual communications print industry, not only products are needed, but in particular services as well.
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
BILK LTD.
A rock-solid investment
BILK Ltd. (Budapest Intermodal Logistics Centre – BILK) is only one of many concerns that testify to the success of György Wáberer. Striving for the optimal usage of resources for all of his companies is a sure sign of his entrepreneurial spirit.
Motto: You have to accept that luck is a fickle mistress, and the opposite of the best-case scenario can happen just as well. With this approach, everything works out much better in the end.
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
BORSODI LLC.
A family company group from the metal industry
“Over the decades, we have grown into a mid-sized metal industry company which is proud of its past and ready to work for its future.”
Motto: The word ‘workshop’ embodies our work philosophy.
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
CAFÉ FREI LLC.
Changing coffee culture
Already considered a market leader in its field, Cafe Frei is gradually beginning to gain a foothold on the international market as well, as it is now present not only in France, Austria and England, but in Dubai as well.
Motto: Coffee is not nourishment – it is the elixir of life.
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
CARBOFERR LTD.
Taking a digital approach to conventional fields
Steel and plastic product wholesaler Carboferr Ltd. has quickly achieved significant recognition and financial success thanks to its innovative and unique business model. The company is considering listing its shares on the stock market in the near future so as to use the resulting capital to speed up its entry into other wholesale sectors, and thus multiply its turnover within a few years.
Motto: Innovative solutions in a traditional sector.
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
COOPTECH LLC.
Seamless intergenerational succession
With a role in the technical development of most pharmaceutical manufacturers and soft drink and mineral water plants working in Hungary, Cooptech Kft. is a company whose partners include virtually all the pharmaceutical companies operating in the country.
Motto: In order for the company to remain viable in the long term, we must focus on complex goals.
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
CSABACAST LLC.
Pressing out success
It was nine years ago that the aluminium foundry in Apc (Hungary) was acquired by its new Hungarian owners, but already in the first partial year, CSABAcast Kft. generated a profit of 140 million HUF. They also built a new greenfield hall, and thus have increased their revenues of typically around 3.5 billion HUF at the start of the crisis to above 10 billion today, and expect to reach 15 billion HUF by 2020.
Motto: The Apc foundry - reloaded.
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
CSERPES LLC.
Another Milky Way
The greatest challenges currently facing Cserpes are related to its workforce. Meanwhile, the plant is becoming increasingly automated. In a few weeks a new type of store will be launched, followed by a new product.
Motto: We provide customers with proper food and do so wisely.
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
DETKI LLC.
Launched into brand building
Detki biscuits have been produced in Halmajugra for thirty years. The revenues generated and their volume have been increasing continuously.
Motto: We bake the kind of biscuits that I’d be happy to serve to my grandchildren.
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
DIAGON LLC.
World-famous in diagnostics
In less than three decades, Diagon, specialised in blood diagnostics equipment and reagents, went from a tiny business to a global leader in its field.
Motto: To achieve unique results in their own field, in a focused manner with the best researchers.
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
FELFÖLDI LLC.
Sweet ideas
Thanks to its continuous innovations and its export-oriented operations, Felföldi did not even feel the crisis. Since its foundation, the company has been expanding steadily.
Motto: You have to go off the beaten path.
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
FUTURE FM LTD.
A clean business
Over the 26 years since its foundation in 1991, Future FM. has become one of the market leaders in the Hungarian facility management sector. Like multinational companies, they have accumulated a tremendous wealth of knowledge, and at the same time managed to retain the convivial atmosphere of a family business.
Motto: Our greatest assets are performance, know-how and respect.
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
GIA FORM LLC.
Taking a smart business approach to industry
Innovative solution, constantly developing technology, leaner production and quality products are the main priorities in the manufacturing industry today, whether for the production of plastic products, tools, or auto parts.
Motto: Our appearance indisputably plays a role in the success of our business.
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
GRABOPLAST LTD.
Crisis-resistant flooring
Graboplast owes its success to managerial foresight: today the company’s products are exported to 86 countries.
Motto: Don’t fear change - if necessary you have to pave the way towards new segments and sectors.
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
GRÁNIT PÓLUS MANAGEMENT LTD.
Number one in real estate development
Gránit Pólus is not your run-of-the-mill real estate development company. In the past two decades, Majority owner Sándor Demján has always managed to dazzle both professionals and the general public with his extraordinary buildings.
Motto: Be the first to walk the road less travelled.
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
HAJDU GROUP
A glorious past and a bright future
The Hajdu Group, with a reputation in Western Europe and a staff of over 700, seeks to stay on track for continued growth through continuous investments.
Motto: Precision, quality and delivery do not constitute a competitive advantage - they are the basic requirements for entering the market.
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
IDATA LLC.
From Hungaroring to 25 thousand vehicles
It's engineering ingenuity, its astonishingly fast response to customer needs, and its customised, quality hardware and software development have propelled iData's solution ‘iTrack’ to the forefront of GPS tracking. The company is also expanding abroad and considering raising capital in the long term.
Motto: We started applying the principles of agile software development and lean methodology when they were completely unknown concepts on the market.
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
INNOMED MEDICAL LTD.
A company in the hands of employees
Innomed Medical, founded nearly thirty years ago, is continuously developing. The Budapest headquarters of the internationally-focused company provides unique services to both business partners and staff.
Motto: Constant development is the cornerstone of our business policy.
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
INGATLAN.COM LTD.
Solid success
Continuous growth offers further interesting opportunities for a site with a large development capacity such as Ingatlan.com, which is not looking to make a major acquisition despite being a market leader. Instead, they have plans to enter the international market with their unique, largely software-based solutions.
Motto: It is possible to achieve success on a local market, and by offering a good service, a site can also maintain its lead in the online sector.
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
INWATECH LLC.
Liquid gold
We often hear that clean drinking water is the gold of the 21st century. But for laypersons, it is often not obvious that one of the important criteria for providing this is releasing as clean water back into nature as possible.
Motto: Life is based on clean water.
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
JULIUS-GLOBE LTD.
From a small garage to a global clientele
Julius-Globe owes its success to reliability, flexibility, and continuous improvements. With their state-of-the-art manufacturing technology, highly qualified and loyal workforce, they have high customer satisfaction rates, especially on the international market.
Motto: It pays off to listen to your co-workers’ ideas – they might have the solution you are looking for.
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
KARSAI GROUP
Continuous investments
The fully Hungarian-owned Karsai, which is expected to produce nearly HUF 10 billion in revenues this year, is racking up innovation after innovation, and has also successfully navigated intergenerational succession. The company’s operations are now supported by Béla Karsai’s niece, Krisztina, and his older daughter, Szilvia.
Motto: The journey is the goal.
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
KEDVENC-JM LLC.
A success story in food wholesale
They went from a small grocery store in Gyöngyös to a major company supplying several counties with a sales revenue of over 11 billion forints and a staff of 200.
Motto: Crises are opportunities that can be leveraged through development and dedicated staff.
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
KOMETA 99 LTD.
Quality above everything
Every year, the amount of meat and meat products sold by Kométa is increasing. At the same time, the company continues to have a particular focus on quality and environmental awareness.
Motto: With flavours and responsibility for a new generation.
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
LAKICS LLC.
Passing the torch from one generation to the next
The conscious company building over an entire generation can lend a profound competitive edge to a company.
Motto: I like iron. This is why it lets me make anything out of it.
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
MASTER GOOD LLC.
Poultry farming: a family package
For four generations, the Bárány family have been experts in poultry farming. It is thus no coincidence that they are the most dominant actor on the Hungarian market in their segment and may soon become a global player.
Motto: We don’t fear the future, we prepare for it.
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
MEGAKRÁN LTD.
The latest in lifting technology with state-of-the-art machinery and know-how
Megakrán LLC. – as of September 30, Megakrán Ltd. – is undergoing a significant transformation based on highly calculated organisation development and precisely mapped-out vision. The company, which started out in 1994 as a sole proprietorship, has set the goal of becoming a real mid-sized company through its complex lifting technology solutions.
Motto: We only consider our work a success if the staff involved are able to perform their tasks under the best possible conditions.
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
MERCARIUS LLC.
Unique solutions
Providing its own services on its own premises, all in a way that clients have practically nothing to do but drive. This Hungarian fleet management company offers unique solutions.
Motto: Custom-made solutions to give you the full driving experience, without the risks and the stress.
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
MICROSEC LTD.
Pioneers in digitalisation
Microsec Zrt. was providing its clients with company data from the database of the Hungarian court of registration already in 1995, back when the worldwide web was still a novelty even for IT professionals. Today, their electronic signature, identification and archiving services have also become important in addition to their information services.
Motto: Custom-made solutions to give you the full driving experience, without the risks and the stress.
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
MIRELITE MIRSA LTD.
Bringing warmth from the freezer
The well-known Mirelite brand is run by a quietly but impressively growing a family business based in Albertirsa, Hungary. They have weathered every crisis and emerged even stronger: they now have four manufacturing bases nationwide.
Motto: It’s not about having your money sitting in the bank, but about making your company strong.
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
MITO GROUP
Dual knowledge
The last ten years at Mito were about continuous success and learning. They specialise in digital development and marketing solutions, as well as the design and implementation of communications campaigns.
Motto: Smart things, good people.
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
NORD-PAPER LLC.
Helping paper prosper
Ferenc Bodrogai, one of the genuine daredevils of the paper industry, has recently sold the brand name Forest-Papír and the consumer segment of his company to an Italian multinational company, only to plunge into two partially new areas with his customary vigour: hygienic services and the Hungarian food industry.
Motto: If you don’t know where you’re going in life, you’ll pick the wrong way.
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
OÁZIS LLC.
From Grecian urn supplier to market leader
Oázis Kertészeti Ltd. started from the ground up unnoticed to become, even with minimal capital, a rapidly expanding and solid business group. The key to their growth over the last few years has been a franchise system based on a family business.
Motto: A structure with tolerance for growth.
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
OPTEN LLC.
The company information company
Though Opten started out in a housing estate flat, today this strong, mid-sized family business selling and developing corporate information services employs one hundred people.
Motto: Success makes you take things for granted and covers up issues. A company needs to constantly make adjustments and improve its efficiency.
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
QUALYSOFT LTD.
Expansion the opposite way
The founders of Qualysoft first built their professional reputation and contacts in Germany and Austria, and then started expanding back in their homeland, Hungary. The business model has worked: today, the group employs nearly 500 people, and anticipate a total turnover of about HUF 9 billion for 2017.
Motto: Sometimes it is worth turning your thinking around, and taking the success achieved abroad one step further back at home.
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
RÁBALUX LTD.
Illuminates your home
Once a family enterprise that started out as a garage business, it has grown into an international company group, which, in addition to its Hungarian sales subsidiary, owns eight other subsidiaries abroad. It also exports to another 12 countries. Every day, the company sells 12,000 lamps on its markets.
Motto: Confronting change with courage.
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
SALGGLAS LTD.
Leveraging a clear profile for more profits
Though it is not generally known, theirs is one of the world’s best-known Hungarian brand names, which can be seen in virtually every country, in nearly 40 million cars.
Motto: We’re building the cars of the future.
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
SOLVO LTD.
Saving millions of dollars every day
Using its unique solution, Solvo Zrt. can improve the speed and the safety of pharmaceutical research projects. The Hungarian research company is a global leader in its segment, as illustrated by its great figures.
Motto: A Hungarian company can become a market leader in a research-intensive sector, but only if state-of-the-art technology is matched with world-class management.
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
STARSCHEMA LLC.
Unique portfolio
Today, clients such as Apple, Facebook, Walt Disney and Netflix, as well as several major banks all vie for the services of Starschema, a company founded in 2006.
Motto: Making money out of data.
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
SZATMÁRI LLC.
Not only focusing on fixtures and accessories
Although most people know the name Szatmári from their network of stores specialised in building engineering, they also happen to be Hungary’s second biggest player in the milling industry. They also have agricultural and real estate holdings. The business, which originally started out as a small gmk, is growing at a spectacular rate.
Motto: Continuous development in building MEP, milling and agriculture.
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
TARR LLC.
A+ in data traffic!
The Tarr family started out by installing antennas in the Szekszárd area, and then built up increasingly larger networks. This Hungarian-owned telecommunications business is now active in eight counties and has an increasingly significant market presence.
Motto: One step ahead of digitalisation.
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
TERRÁN LLC.
From manufactoring to regional multinational company
Thanks to its cautious and prudent development policy, Terrán Llc. has grown into an international company with one of the most advanced manufacturing processes in Central Europe.
Motto: In balance with opportunities.
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
TRANS-SPED GROUP
Complexity
Back in the late 1980s, when Zsolt Fülöp, Managing Director of Trans-Sped Group was in charge of the international office of the Hajdú Volán bus company, many people were starting companies in Hungary.
Motto: Goods are in good hands with us.
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
UBM GROUP
Continuous development
Stability and balanced growth are what characterise the fully Hungarian-owned UBM Group from the agricultural sector. Continuous growth over the last two decades has been supported by staff members who are now owners as well.
Motto: In partnership on the market.
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
VAJDA PAPÍR LLC.
The spirit of competition
Thanks to its latest investments, Vajda Papír, which started out as a garage business and today generates HUF 26 billion in revenues, will be producing half of the raw materials required for its production in Dunaföldvár as of next year.
Motto: We want to make everyday life easier for our clients with the products that we make.
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
VISUAL EUROPE GROUP
Transforming education
Although Visual Europe Group as a corporate group was only created a year ago, they are already market leaders in their segment.
Motto: The key to the future lies in customers being fully involved in the process.
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
WABERER’S INTERNATIONAL PLC.
The largest IPO of the last 20 years
Waberer’s’ story is all about growth. “We take pride in having integrated intense growth into our corporate culture. We have always successfully combined organic growth from our own resources and expansion through acquisitions”, explains Ferenc Lajkó, CEO of Waberer’s International.
Motto: We have a crisis-resistant business strategy.
BÉT50 - Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies - 2017
XAPT LLC. (NEW FRONTIER GROUP)
First-class ERP
After founding the company, Zoltán Schvarcz, who had significant experience in corporate management and client care, and had worked for various global companies, reviewed around 70 types of specialised software.
Motto: The foundations of our business model are careful analysis, system flexibility and speed.
In 2016 Budapest Stock Exchange launched a new publication, the BÉT50 – Fifty Prosperous Hungarian Companies, to present 50 successful Hungarian businesses that have achieved successful in their own fields.