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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The office routine behind a Bucharest technology story
UiPath’s beginnings in Bucharest place a familiar workplace problem inside a regional business story: what happens when software takes on repeated actions? Beyond the language…
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The curve that keeps a Czech factory in the conversation
A wooden chair can carry an industrial history without announcing it. At TON, in the Moravian town of Bystřice pod Hostýnem, the bending of timber…
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What a Prague printer leaves open
A desktop 3D printer places an industrial process within reach of a workbench. Prusa Research, founded by Josef Průša and rooted in Prague, has built…
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The Polish factory at the next bus stop
Solaris’s manufacturing story begins in Bolechowo, Poland, and unfolds on city streets. Its buses make an industrial business visible through an unusually ordinary encounter: waiting,…
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A Budapest wardrobe with a material question
Nanushka’s story begins in Budapest and reaches into the language of contemporary fashion through clothes, materials and the spaces around them. Founded by Sandra Sándor…
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A workshop that makes room for the city
Nine production labs share a former bicycle factory in Ljubljana. At Center Rog, access to tools is part of a wider institutional arrangement that also…
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The space between a slide and an idea
Prezi began in Hungary in 2009 with a visual approach to presentation. Its expanding canvas offers a way to consider how ideas are arranged before…
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The factory becomes part of the picture
At Rimac’s campus near Zagreb, the production building is part of the company’s public image of technological work. Designed by Croatian practice 3LHD, the project…
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Bigger cheques, fewer bets: the new shape of CEE startup capital
Central and Eastern Europe’s largest startup rounds in 2026 are clustering around AI, defence technology, robotics and specialised infrastructure. The money is significant, but the…