Budapest Business Journal

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Budapest Business Journal
CategoriesBusiness magazine
Frequency Biweekly
PublisherAbsolute Media
First issue1 November 1992;30 years ago (1992-11-01)
Country Hungary
Based in Budapest
Language English
Website Budapest Business Journal

The Budapest Business Journal or BBJ is a biweekly business magazine published in Hungary. It is the largest, oldest and a leading publication in its category in the country. [1] [2]

Contents

History and profile

The BBJ was launched in November 1992 as a weekly. [3] [4] The magazine, based in Budapest, was converted into biweekly later. [5] It was founded by a US-owned company headed by Stephen A. O'Connor, an American media entrepreneur. [6] [7] Mike Stone was also its founder. [8]

The publisher is Absolut Media Kft. [9] It was originally published by New World Publishing [10] which also published the Warsaw Business Journal in Poland and the Prague Business Journal in Czechoslovakia (and later the Czech Republic) until January 2004. [11] [12]

As its title implies, the BBJ exclusively focuses on business news and related analysis, targeting business professionals. [13] In addition, it provides detailed industry and company information. [14] The magazine publishes rankings of Hungarian companies each year in a separate publication called The Book of Lists. [15]

The BBJ was one of the independent publications and provided investigative reports in the late 1990s. [16] In 2002 the BBJ had a circulation of 8,700 copies. [10]

The BBJ has a website which is one of the leading business information websites in the country. As of 15 May 2013 the Alexa rank of the website was 858437. [1]

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