Tag "Opten"

Waves in the company trend – the changing faces of liquidations and company formations

Even with decreasing terminations, decreasing numbers of companies in the company trend. The willingness to start a company fell by 30% in March compared to the previous month. Declining new...

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Increasing company founding activity in the shadow of rising new procedures

There was a definite increase in the willingness to start a business in February. The number of terminations decreased seasonally. The number of companies has been decreasing for the sixth...

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2023: a year of negative records in company trends

2023 brought a rise in company closures and liquidations both globally and in Hungary. According to international experts, high interest rates and post-Covid state aid cuts have led to the...

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Entrepreneurial heritage – the conquest of older companies

The expansion of older companies, the number of companies that have lived 25 years has almost tripled compared to 2018, approaching 77,000 today. The business environment is changing, and despite...

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The beginning of the year is also the time of a new start in the generational change

The managers of companies founded during the regime change are slowly retiring, and the time has come to hand over the baton to their successors. This process is generational change,...

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Opten: Company managers aren’t yet over the hard times

OPTEN and Bridge Budapest’s year-end business sentiment survey shows a mixed picture and mixed feelings. The mood survey of Jövőkép Mátrix at the end of 2023 suggests that company managers...

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The ESG Act affects domestic companies widely

The domestic ESG law, effective from January 1, 2024, will have a great impact on the life of domestic businesses. Those who act on time can gain an advantage, those...

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2023 became the year of negative records in the company trend

Negative processes in the company trend in 2023. There are 12.2 thousand fewer social enterprises in the economy. The fewest annual company foundings in the past six years – 25.7...

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Opten: decreasing number of companies – what can be expected?

Based on OPTEN data, nearly 32,000 companies were closed this year, and the annual decrease, due to nearly 21,000 foundings, is slowly reaching 11,000. The high value of the number...

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The rise of the Y and Z generations is becoming more and more spectacular

The popularity of the younger generations – Y and Z – is increasing, contrary to the declining company trend, their weight is constantly increasing. The number of Baby Boom and...

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OPTEN: focus is again on liquidations

Technical stagnation in September, expected decrease in the number of companies in October. Moderate willingness to start a company, the number of new companies below the seasonal level. Again, the...

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Hard times, strong business leaders: despite the challenges, optimism for the future persists!

Although they see no more reason to be optimistic, it seems that the progressive domestic business leaders do not allow themselves to be dissuaded from their positive vision of the...

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Opten: The number of companies in Hungary continues to decrease

In 2023, the number of companies in Hungary has decreased every month so far, approaching the drop of 10,000 compared to last year. Although the desire to start companies increased...

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Good cause research

Advertising agency Positive Adamsky did a new type of research, in partnership with company information specialist OPTEN, and text analysis and media monitoring firm Neticle. They followed the public communication...

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OPTEN and Bridge Budapest asked business leaders about their future vision

The mood of domestic business leaders has improved significantly regarding their forecasts for both the current and the next 3 months, reports OPTEN and Bridge Budapest in the latest survey....

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Opten: The liquidation procedures have stalled! Does it indicate insolvency or an aftereffect of Covid?

Changes in liquidation procedures dominate the company trend in October, with the number of initiated procedures exceeding 1,000. This is almost four times more than the same period of the...

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100 businesses at one address? It is becoming more common and more dangerous

From the point of view of company information, we call frequent addresses the addresses of headquarters where a large number of businesses are registered. This is a very interesting and...

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It’s worth adapting the operations of companies to sustainability expectations

In the short term, it entails costs, but it’s worth it to adapt the companies’ operations to sustainability expectations – Opten told MTI on Monday. The survey data show that...

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The KATA tightening took effect: the number of companies closing increased fourfold

In one month, more than 3,300 social enterprises initiated their liquidation, which is the second highest value of liquidation of all time, and four times the usual monthly values in...

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Opten: the number of people banned from company management has decreased further

The number of newly banned individuals in Hungary has been declining for three years; together with the 4,076 individuals banned in 2021, their numbers have fallen from 60,000 to 40,000,...

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The first month of 2022 brought a great wave of liquidations among Hungarian companies

As in previous years, in January 2022, entrepreneurs decided en masse to close their companies, and in the first month of the year 1762 liquidation procedures were published. It is...

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The practice of mass corporate ownership is evolving

There can be a myriad of real economic reasons why an entrepreneur decides that more companies are needed to serve their business processes. Today, it is practically natural for an...

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Zoltek Zrt. was named Company of the Year

From next week, the Watcher TOP200 yearbook will be available on newsstands. The publication ranks the largest and fastest growing companies in Hungary, relying on the data of Opten Informatics...

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More than 13,000 jobs and HUF 450 billion in revenue disappeared from the marketing sector

This year, opten and Positive Adamsky presented the development of the Marketing Index (AI), a marketing industry metric introduced last year. It turned out that direct advertising companies had an...

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Losers also hit by retail special tax

There are several retail sectors where companies have suffered, on average, a significant drop in both their revenues and profits as a result of the pandemic situation, yet they are...

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81 per cent of family business owners want to make generational changes by retaining ownership

81 per cent of family business owners want to make generational changes by retaining ownership – a joint survey of Moore Hungary and Opten. Only 14 percent of owners consider...

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Business spirit is back

The establishment and terminations of companies also reflect the recovery of the Hungarian economy following the downturn following the outbreak of the coronavirus epidemic. In the second quarter of last...

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Corporate liquidations peaked in January

According to Opten, the level of liquidations peaked in January as a mixed-impact effect of the Covid pandemic, but the number of start-ups was also close to record, according to...

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Opten the survival rate of start-up Hungarian companies deteriorated

The survival rate of start-up Hungarian companies has deteriorated in the past year as well, with less than 70 percent of companies reaching the age of 5, while 46 percent...

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Opten: 2942 new businesses were registered in July

In July 2020, 2,942 new companies were registered in Hungary, the last time the number of company foundations was so high was in 2014 – the company information service provider...

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