Vision of Entrepreneurship

"Our aim is to focus on customer's need and to provide quality products. This is in compliance with the continuously evolving demand for household appliances on both the Hungarian and world markets. We strive for the long-term production through our company, through our activities."

How I became an enterpreneur?

The company was state-owned and founded almost 50 years ago. In 1988, a new company law was enacted in Hungary. As a result we were able to organise a management-buy-out. This led to the transformation of the company into a shareholding company in 1993. As part of the privatisation the leaders of the former HAJDUSAGI IPARMUVEK together with external capital investors took over the ownership of the company. Now, with four other management colleagues, we own the majority of the company stock and gradually the business became also profitable.

Message for the 21st century

"Globalisation in the sense of products manufactured by multinational companies does not necessarily favour smaller national enterprises. These enterprises have an essential role in maximazing customer choice and ensuring a proper climate of competition. Our message is to support the market economy by manufacturing national quality products, that directly answer to local and regional needs."

Vision of Entrepreneurship

"QUALIPROD - based on accumulated and continuously developed skills and knowledge is a good example of entrepreneurship and actions. It has become a leading Hungarian and Eastern-European company in its field of quality and technical consultancy and plays a definite role in assisting our partners in their integration to the EU and the region."

How I became an enterpreneur?

During my career I have always been involved in quality issues. My education opened the door to understanding, that first rate quality products could only be developed though quality systems and the understanding of international standards. I belong to a fortunate few in Hungary, who had the benefit of training by the best experts in the field of the quality systems. I thought the best way to share my knowledge was to set up myself independently, within the framework of my own business. As a result, I have developed indigenous quality systems and train experts in compliance with international standards. This is an undertaking I carry out with colleagues at the QUALIPROD Quality and Technical Consulting Ltd. "

Message for the 21st century

"There is no alternative to fulfilling the requirements of our partners and customers to the highest possible level of quality. Continuous growth and development demand the best of our professional energy and creativity, always seeking for new and better solutions. Our goal is to be the best, to seek the way forward for greater achievement in the future."

Vision of Entrepreneurship

"An Excellent Entrepreneur has to be the disposal of the following features: Good organizing ability; Persistently doing her work; Love of work and to be go in for what she is doing; Not forget to extend her training; Look searching for the future; the past is only for drawing the lessons and draw strength fro it; Sense of responsibility for her colleagues; and She always has to search for new possibilities for professional perfection and self-satisfaction."

How I became an enterpreneur?

"At the very instant of the Hungarian change of the regime we established our enterprise: self-reliance and independence always attracted me. Travelling and managing travelling, discovering the world are not only my work, but also my hobby. After graduation as a teacher I continued my studies at the Faculty of Tourism at the Budapest University for Economics."

Message for the 21st century

"The life is travelling and during the travel it isn't the same what kind of memory we pass down at each station."

Vision of Entrepreneurship

"The enterprise group, which is built up of two Ltd-s and two co-operatives, became and important player in the filed of telecommunication and IT contracting. It's market share is nearly 10-15% utilising the method of re-buying and long-term partnership relations. The enterprise has been contacted every major telecommunication operator and established business relations with all manufacturers based in Hungary. It has sufficient capital and developed qualified manpower with adequate salaries and motivations and work with stable and permanent staff. The enterprise develops according to the development of the telecommunication market itself."

How I became an enterpreneur?

"The change of the political system in my country and the abolishment of the COCOM-regulation touched my husband and his friend working in that area. We wanted to enforce the uncertain employment by transforming into a private enterprise. As a person with the most entrepreneurial spirit I became the Managing Director of the company some 11 years ago. We could manage to company growing in the filed of telecommunication business and to operate it in the segment of wireless telecommunication."

Message for the 21st century

"The 21st Century will turn toward a society, companies and organizations, which allow the complete unfolding of the acting man, emphasises the global knowledge and use the whole palette of human feature. The major objective will be a harmonized development of the environment and the mankind, and the human development and welfare will embrace a larges scale. The enterprises will undertake activities which are beyond their primary objectives, such as promotion of the interest of the Society and the Environment."

Vision of Entrepreneurship

"In my view it is important that small and medium companies find their place and remain competitive despite the trend of globalization and the domination of multinational companies. To achieve this, I believe, it is essential that we focus more on what we can do best, build and maintain close relationships with our customers, treat them as individuals and provide them excellent service. In our bookstores we aim to create a friendly and intimate atmosphere where our customers can feel comfortable and appreciated. I place special emphasis on personal contact both with my customers and employees which has special value in today’s rushing world, nevertheless it is commonly overlooked key factor for success."

How I became an enterpreneur?

"I became an entrepreneur due to the pressure of circumstances. I used to be a math teacher and in 1979 I suffered an accident in school. After surgeries and years of post treatment, it became obvious that I could not continue my carrier in my original profession. I started tutoring private students at home but those were difficult times as we had three kids to feed and my husband’s salary was not sufficient. In 1986 an offer came up to work on a bookstand temporarily. This was around the time of privatisations in Hungary, the state-owned monopolistic book distribution system collapsed leaving a vacuum behind. I saw opportunities in selling books on the street, as it showed a way out of our financial problems. Developing our business meant a lot of work (12-14 hours a day, sometimes even more) but with the support of my husband I continued and soon managed to acquire my own bookstands. Later, in 1991 we founded our bookselling and publishing company, which soon gained a significant position in the Hungarian book market. By that time we already had a wholesale warehouse, 16 stands and a few smaller bookshops. Since 1996, with the leadership of my youngest son Gyuri, our publishing section has specialized in computer books. Currently we run two large bookstores, twelve small shops under the name Anima. We also have a virtual bookstore on the Internet. Kiskapu as a brand has gained an excellent reputation as a computer book publishing house with 43 titles to date and the Linuxvilág monthly magazine."

Message for the 21st century

"Love is capable of incredible things. Believe in its power and when you feel there is no way out, it is not worth going on, think of it feeling as only temporary. Set a goal for yourself, fight for it and never give up!"

Vision of Entrepreneurship

"In my view an entrepreneur has to be creative, innovative, integrative and straightforward in order to fulfil all of the requirements established by the new century. In our rushing world many features have become essential to run a company, such as integrating ability or empathy since the importance of human resource management has revalorised recently. Any entrepreneur who does not pay enough attention to these new challenges would play a losing game."

How I became an enterpreneur?

"Originally I worked as a civil engineer with special interest in tunnel design. I came across many problems of environmental nature in connection with these works; the solution of those had always fascinated me. 1990 brought monumental changes and opportunities in Hungary; it became possible to initiate and run one’s own concern. At that time in the beginning of the nineties Hungary faced with huge challenges in the field of environmental protection. (For example the military establishment’s vacated by foreign armies left behind a legacy of badly damaged environment. It was one of the greatest challenges to improve the environment of these areas.) By 1993 my interest was so serious in moving into this area that I gave up the certainty of employment and decided to start a company with main interest in projects of environmental issues."

Message for the 21st century

"The more important and challenging task for my age is bringing up a new generation with a wide scale of values and sense of environmental protection otherwise our descendants will loose any chance to gain experience of this beautiful planet."