Hungary: A Return to Investment Grade Status Could Restore FDI Inflows
Roshni Wani Thapa
Hungary regained its investment grade status in 2016, which will result in a stable financing landscape for businesses operating in the country. As part of a struggle to reduce the budget deficit and dodge another International Monetary Fund (IMF)…
Hungary: The Painful Birth of the Sharing Economy
Attila Kecskeméti
The rapid evolution of innovative business models rooted in a sharing economy has shaken up pricing and distribution of goods and services formed over many years in Hungary – in a similar way to how the internet itself had already reshaped the…
Consumer Preference of Local Beer Makes Hungarian Competition Authority Ruling Obsolete
Euromonitor International
In 2015, the Hungarian Competition Authority announced the four largest players in the beer market in Hungary will have to reduce their contracts with hotels, restaurants and cafes in order to give local players a chance to compete. As craft beer as…
Three Unexpected Major Challenges for Hungarian Retailers in 2016
Attila Kecskeméti
"Be careful what you wish for because you just might get it" - this old adage keeps being repeated as the unexpected restoration of Sunday store opening in Hungary, following a one-year ban, brings with it some extra challenges retailers had not…
The Impact of EU Membership on Eastern European Member States
Sarah Boumphrey
          Follow @SarahBoumphrey Croatia will join the EU on July 1st 2013. Those that joined in 2004 (Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia) saw on the whole stronger GDP…