Budapest Business Journal

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

Budapest Business Journal
CategoriesBusiness magazine
FrequencyBiweekly
PublisherAbsolute Media
First issue1 November 1992 (1992-11-01)
CountryHungary
Based inBudapest
LanguageEnglish
WebsiteBudapest Business Journal

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, a US 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]

See also

References
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  3. Budapest Business Journal LexisNexis. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
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  6. "Stephen A. O'Connor". American Media Institute. Archived from the original on 14 December 2013. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
  7. Adrian Phillips; Jo Scotchmer (2004). Budapest. Bradt Travel Guides. p. 74. ISBN 978-1-84162-110-4. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
  8. Csűrös Csanád (18 March 2013). "You have to learn to adjust your sails". REsource. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
  9. "BBJ". Absolute Media. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
  10. Media Landscape of South East Europe 2002 (PDF). Sofia: ACCESS-Sofia Foundation. 2003. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  11. Our Portfolio Archived 26 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine Opus8. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
  12. Prague Business Journal Shuts Down Generation Expat. 12 January 2004. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
  13. Budapest Business Journal Wideweb. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
  14. Oksana Newman (1 January 2007). Online Business Sourcebook. Walter de Gruyter. p. 152. ISBN 978-3-598-44038-0. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
  15. "BBJ Ranks Hunnect Ltd the 3rd Largest LSP in Hungary". Hunnect. 14 February 2013. Archived from the original on 27 December 2014. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  16. Rita M. Csapo-Sweet; Ildiko Kaposi (Spring 1999). "Mass Media in Post-Communist Hungary". International Communications Bulletin. 34 (1–2). Retrieved 27 December 2014.
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