In 2018, Tungsram returned to the market as a Hungarian-based multinational company. Production is concentrated in Hungary today, but between the two world wars, Tungsram also had small factories in nine countries outside Hungary. Radium Tilburg was one of them.
Tungsram’s legal precursor, United Electrical Ltd., was founded 123 years ago when the owners of a firm called the First Austro-Hungarian Electric Lighting and Power Transmitting Factory (Erste österreichisch-ungarische Fabrik für elektrische Beleuchtung und Kraftübertragung Egger B. & Co./Első Osztrák-Magyar Villamvilágítási és Erőátviteli Gyár Egger B. és Társa) established a new firm, the United Electrical Ltd., with new funding.
The International Workers’ Day commemorates more than the historic struggles and gains made by the labor movement regarding workers’ rights and their working conditions,
On June 18, 1946 Winston Churchill called on the people of the Commonwealth to stand their ground against the Third Reich with these words: If the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, “This was their finest hour.”
Today we are celebrating the 50th World Telecommunication Day since May 17, 1969. It is a celebration for Tungsram as well, as our company contributed to building a connected society since the beginning of electric communication.
Disruptive technologies are transforming our life profoundly at an accelerated pace. They have changed the competitive position of enterprises, too.
Lipót (Leopold) Aschner was born on January 27, 1872, as the first son in a Jewish family with nine children, in Nové Sady (Assakürt), the northern part of Hungary (today Slovakia). After only eight years in school, Aschner had to start his adult life and support his family.
