On a cold evening in February 2009, my wife and I traveled home from the gala dinner where Ernst and Young announced the ‘Entrepreneur Of The Year 2008′ award. She asked me how I felt after being on the short list for the award and not winning it. Winning is a good feeling, I answered, but I had already won several awards so this was not so important to me.

Published in “Autoszektor”, the media for automotive business in Hungary:

About a year ago it was breaking news that the creator of one of the first Hungarian Autoplaza, Lajos Csiki-Bege asked for bankruptcy prevention process. on 25 February 2010 Dr Lajos Csiki-Bege declared in a  press conference that he wound up his interests in the car business. After this he answered the questions of the ASZ. Special thanks for Mr Csiki-Bege for this fact and for the unvarnished straightness.

• The original Hungarian article

This interwiew was published on the online site of the “Radio Economy”

„ Three weeks later we cancelled the bankruptcy prevention process,

• The hungarian text of the interwiew

The interview was issued at the website of the Radio Economy. At the same day I was the guest of the day in the radio. Click here to read the whole article in hungarian:

• The Csiki-Bege Group shows its back to trade
  

  
  

Anna Szalay – Népszabadság newspaper, 07 November 2008

In the first week he was selling glasses. The following week he brought tray with them as well. The third week there was mustard, ketchup and oil on the truck as well. Till the end of the summer he became the supplier of most of the restaurant and buffer around the Lake Balaton. He worked up an old industrial building to be his depot. Before and after the season he was the student of the Semmelweis University, the oldest medical school of Hungary. And this was not his first successful business.

This is a video presentation about our dealerships and services in the autumn 2008.  In a market leader position with qualyfied infrastructure in a falling market.

Invited as a leading business professional – it was one honor to enjoy the conference -

• Charles Handy in Budapest

“Charles Handy will also interact with some leading business professionals who know Hungary and know what it needs to move forward: Handy will challenge his vision at a forum discussion with Raiffeisen Bank CEO Péter Felcsuti, Tamás Kürti, Development Director of Kürt Zrt., Magyar Telekom CEO Christopher Mattheisen, Paul Lendvai, Editor-in-Chief of Europaeische Rundschau, Lajos Csiki-Bege, Managing Director of Csiki-Bege Kft. and KPMG in Hungary’s Managing Partner, Robert Stöllinger, each having contributed to the development of leadership in the region. The discussion will be moderated by Sanoma CEO György Szabó. Their expertise, local knowledge and global experience combined with Handy’s insight and unique way of viewing the world, promises an exciting combination and the potential for lighting that fire, by taking a major step in shaping the future of business in Hungary.”

Published in the nationwide  “Hungarian News”, daily newspaper. It is presenting in unicaly context my biografy and entrepreneurship.

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