Business
Business stories from Central and Eastern Europe, covering companies, technology, manufacturing, investment, infrastructure and the decisions reshaping the region’s economy. Explore how businesses turn ideas into products, how energy and transport systems operate, and what regional investment announcements mean in practice.
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Zsolnay’s glaze carries the factory into the street
Zsolnay’s iridescent glazes and architectural ceramics connect the Pécs factory to city buildings, museum collections and the reused Zsolnay Quarter.
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Herend’s two-hundred-year story is written before the paint dries
Herend’s 1826 foundation frames a closer look at forming, firing and painting porcelain, and the skills that connect a white object to its decoration.
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At Škoda’s museum, a finished car becomes a record of decisions
At Škoda’s museum in Mladá Boleslav, vehicles, restoration and archives reveal how a manufacturer keeps knowledge after a model leaves production.
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Estonia’s modular houses move work into the factory—and leave work on site
Estonia’s timber-house sector shows how much of a building can be prepared before delivery. The useful business question is what factory completion changes, and which…
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Bolesławiec’s pottery pattern begins with a production sequence
In its eightieth anniversary year, Zakłady Ceramiczne BOLESŁAWIEC provides a practical reminder that a familiar pattern depends on clay preparation, forming, firing and skilled decoration.
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At Moser, handmade crystal is a system of shared skills
Moser’s Karlovy Vary glassworks offers a useful way to look at Czech manufacturing: through the people, tools and successive operations that turn an idea into…
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Szeged’s geothermal story moves from construction to everyday heat
The completion of Szeged’s geothermal programme was reported in January. As another heating season approaches, the story shifts from wells and construction milestones to the…
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Poland’s defence boom faces a factory-floor test
A catalogue and an exhibition can show what an industry wants to sell. Poland’s defence expansion asks a harder question: what can its factories repeatedly…
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VIFOR switches on: reading Romania’s wind milestone carefully
Thirty turbines mark a new stage for VIFOR in Buzău County. The useful business story lies in the distinction between a project being energised, its…