ALMÁSI KFT.

Almási Kft. increased its turnover by nearly one third between 2016 and 2018, and now this Mezőkövesd business plans to strengthen its international operations as well.

ARH INFORMATIKAI ZRT.

What do these things have in common: the automatic border-control gate soon to go live at Budapest’s Liszt Ferenc Airport, a road toll payment monitoring system and the intelligent traffic surveillance system dubbed “VÉDA”? All of them use cutting-edge identification technology supplied by a single Hungarian company.

BÁBOLNA BIO KFT.

The Bábolna State Farm set up the Pest Control Station as a separate division for exterminating rats on livestock farms in 1965. As its scope of activities expanded, the pest control company changed its name to Bábolna Environmental Biology Centre (Bábolna Környezetbiológiai Központ), and has now held the name Bábolna Bio Kft. for over ten years.

BIGGEORGE PROPERTY ZRT.

Tibor Nagygyörgy, one of the most successful property investors in Hungary, started doing business when he was a teenager. Now, his company group has more than a hundred firms.

BOCK BORÁSZAT KFT.

The history of professional winemaking on the Bock Estate stretches back to the 1980s.

CNC RAPID KFT.

A forgácsolt fém alkatrészeket ezredmilliméteres pontossággal gyártó győri CNC Rapid Kft. 2016-ban került új kezekbe.

CONFECTOR KFT.

Confector, a general contractor, took the path less travelled when they chose to specialise in renovating historic buildings that require highly-skilled expertise. Their achievements over almost three decades since their foundation have proved them right. Their largest project so far was the renovation of the Carmelite building complex, a prominent building in the Budapest landscape.

CORECOMM SI KFT.

Balázs Horváth and his enterprise, CoreComm SI, supported the installation and maintenance of the telecommunications, IT, and low-voltage networks of the US Army in Bosnia.

DANIELLA KFT.

Daniella accredits its rapid development to its reliability, the involvement of external experts, and its internal training programmes.

DI-CARE ZRT.

The story of Di-Care Zrt., a medical equipment manufacturer, started exactly ten years ago, during the 2008 financial crisis. They have since then covered one quarter of the Hungarian market with their Méry brand blood-sugar meters and test strips, products that have facilitated the lives of tens of thousands of diabetics easier every day. Their international expansion is also imminent.

DIGIC HOLDING

Digic Pictures, a computer-graphics business and the shared American dream of two Hungarians, is now Budapest’s answer to the big guns of the video-game animation industry. The sky is the limit.

DUNA ELEKTRONIKA KFT.

Since its first business plan, Duna Elektronika has grown to moving 50,000 boxes of IT equipment.

ELME AUTOMATIKA KFT.

ELME Automatika believes in prudent, carefully considered growth. This 28-year-old company is one of the key machine builders in the automotive industry.

ELSŐ PESTI MALOM- ÉS SÜTŐIPARI ZRT.

The Első Pesti Malom has four mills and a granary. As a major Hungarian milling company, they are the leading flour suppliers in Budapest and its surroundings.

ERTL FAIPARI KFT.

The Ertl Faipari Kft. of the Ertl family and József Schweighardt have made furniture for countless European customers, ranging from the Buddha Bar in Budapest to Belgian hotels and Austrian retirement homes.

ÉSZAK ÜVÉRT KFT.

Long ago, Attila Deák’s great-great-grandfather was a major businessman in the Miskolc glass industry. The tradition then skipped a few generations before coming back to life. Their glass-trading medium-sized enterprise expects a turnover of between HUF 4.5 and 5 billion for 2019.

EURONICS (VÖRÖSKŐ KFT.)

Euronics Műszaki Áruházlánc (Euronics Appliances and Electronics) is now the appliances and electronics retailer with the most retail outlets—65 shops—across the country.

THE GABLINI GROUP

Gábor Gablini, who started out as an apprentice car mechanic, is now the CEO of a company group that sells the car models of six manufacturers.

GAMAX GROUP

Gamax, originally founded by Géza Homonnay and eleven partners, has been in the temporary staffing and recruitment business for almost three decades. A few years ago, they also acquired the Pannon-Work Group.

GRAPHISOFT PARK SE

The Graphisoft Park in the northern part of the Buda side of Budapest is a veritable magnet for dynamic companies. This office park now offers an attractive and inspiring work environment for more than 5,000 highly qualified employees.

GSV KERESKEDELMI KFT.

GSV Kereskedelmi Kft. has been continuously growing for years, thanks to its wide product range, professional services and prompt deliveries. The turnover of this construction material dealer could top HUF 9 billion this year.

HAFNER PNEUMATIKA KFT.

Using the founder’s patent, Hafner Pneumatika makes valves with longer-than-average useful lives.

HAPP KFT.

International and inland cargo transport and warehousing company Happ Kft. started out with just one Avia lorry, but now has sixty vehicles.

HERENDI PORCELÁNMANUFAKTÚRA ZRT.

Herendi Porcelánmanufaktúra Zrt. has been selling its products internationally since its foundation in 1826. Its vision has always been to become a luxury porcelainware manufacturer open to uniqueness. A manufactory rather than a factory, a place where fine china is still crafted by hand.

KLING KFT.

The father and even the grandfather of Sándor Kling and Imre Kling, the owners and founders of Kling Kft., built fences and gates. Their family name is also a well-established brand for garages and industrial gates. Their sign board proudly proclaims: “Kling Gate Technology since 1918.”

LIPÓTI PÉKSÉG KFT.

They’ve come a long way: the Lipóti Pékség (Lipóti Bakery), now a nationwide network, started out with their first bakery workshop at grandma’s back in Lipót, a village in northeastern Hungary.

MASTERPLAST NYRT.

Dávid Tibor, chairman of the executive board of Masterplast (established in 1997), believes that Hungarian business owners should decide on going public based on a context extending beyond the generally analysed financial, economic, and regulatory questions.

MIELL QUALITY KFT.

Still shy of its tenth anniversary, Miell Quality is already a big gun in Hungary’s industrial quality control. This company from Vasvár, a town in western Hungary. Still in the hands of its founding family, it boasts impressive results: a doubling of its revenue every year since its foundation, with a good chance of crossing the “psychological barrier” of HUF 10 billion this year.

MIKROPAKK KFT.

Mikropakk started as a classic family business and is now a global market player which wants to distinguish itself from the hundreds—tens of thousands, on a European scale—of injection-moulding and die-making businesses with highest added-value products.

MORTOFF GROUP

What started out as two small IT consultancy and software-development companies has gradually developed organically, step by step, into a group generating around HUF 2 billion in revenues and employing over 170 professionals.

MPF INDUSTRY GROUP

The MPF Industry Group is a classic example of what can be achieved through a combination of commitment, persistence and the right skills.

NELSON GROUP

The Nelson Group from Székesfehérvár has an unmatched portfolio: it is not only their fleet-leasing services make them one of the top 5 Hungarian-owned companies, but also their property development and agricultural businesses that have gone from one success to another.

OPTIMUM SOLAR KFT.

Optimum Solar Kft. in Baja designs and builds solar parks and has grown to a company with a turnover of billions of HUF in only a couple years.

OXO GROUP

The OXO Group finances and develops technology startups from their early stages through to expansion and buying-out stages. They also want to go public in the future.

THE PADTHAI GROUP

Seven years, (almost) eight restaurants. And the team of the Hungarian Padthai Wokbar is already planning to open two more. Meanwhile, they are also studying the possibilities of international expansion and going public.

PAUKER NYOMDA

Pauker Nyomda, which has become one of Hungary’s leading sheetfed offset printers, will be celebrating its 30th anniversary this year.

PEMŰ ZRT.

The history of PEMÜ Zrt., a company in Solymár, a village near Budapest, is special for several reasons. This company, established by a group of friends in 1959, is in fact as old as the plastic industry itself.

PHARMA PRINT KFT.

This family business started as a small, agile printing house, but nowadays it only prints patient information leaflets for major international pharmaceutical companies. This medium-sized company in Debrecen, a city in eastern Hungary, has over HUF 1 billion in revenues, over 50 employees, and exports its know-how and its precision zero-defect technology (unique at a global level) to Germany and Switzerland, among others. This translates to an extraordinary advantage for Hungarian and international pharmaceutical companies.

PI-ER KFT.

This company in Komló, a town in southwestern Hungary, conquered two segments of the international textile market with its extreme-duty protective clothing.

ROBOT-X KFT.

A close-knit team got a loan for HUF 500,000: this is how Robot-X Kft. started 13 years ago on the second floor of a Budapest housing estate. Robot-X has since become one of the biggest robot-integration companies in Hungary.

ROTOVILL KFT.

The history of Rotovill Kft. is a classic “garage business” success story. Headquartered in Pécs, a city in southern Hungary, hard working and adaptive company has been quick to adjust to market needs over the past 25 years, factors which have made it Hungary’s leading wholesaler of appliance parts. Its broad product range has also made it a major player in the household air-conditioning industry.

SERCO INFORMATIKA KFT.

SERCO, a Budapest-based system integrator established in the early 1980s, joined the top 10 Hungarian companies after 35 years of uninterrupted development. But this is not their only achievement, as they have already completed a process that many Hungarian companies are only starting to grapple with—successful intergenerational succession.

SIMON MŰANYAGFELDOLGOZÓ

It is the incredibly compelling faith, confidence, diligence, persistence, and, of course, luck of its founder and owner István Simon that has been propelling Simon Műanyagfeldolgozó, a family-owned medium-sized enterprise, for almost 35 years.

SZENTKIRÁLYI-KÉKKÚTI ÁSVÁNYVÍZ KFT.

Hungary’s most popular mineral water comes from a protected water-yielding layer that formed during the ice age. This alone, however, is nowhere near enough for success.

TEXTÚRA ZRT.

Textúra Zrt., a workwear material distributor, started out from a 22 m² shop in Budapest. Persistent work and a good business acumen ensured quick success. Over the course of 30 years, they have become an important regional company with several subsidiaries abroad.

VERARBEITEN PAUSITS KFT.

Imre Pausits, a mechanical engineer, was among the first to start a private business partnership in the early 1980s. Nowadays, he manages his heavy-industry plant—that processed 8,000 tons of steel last year and has a staff of 120—together with his son Valér.

VIA BÉRAUTÓ KFT.

The dynamic duo of Delta-Truck Kft. and Via Bérautó Kft. has achieved a lot through their systematic approach by taking the chances offered by the market.

WING ZRT.

WING Zrt. has been building persistently, systematically, and conservatively.

ZALACO ZRT.

This major Hungarian baking company has set its sights on going public. Zalaco Zrt. has a sound strategy for its IPO and also plays a leading role in concentrating Hungary’s baking industry, which is highly fragmented at the moment.