ÉrMe Business NetworkBusiness is not only about profit.

This brochure is destined for giving you a look at the nearly 15 years’ work of the ÉrMe Business Network and its achievements as well as for introducing them to our members and friends. All our achievements, mistakes and recoveries represent our common history, an integral part of our life – including those, who are active members, friends, supporters of ÉrMe even today or those, who are now looking for their fulfilment further from us, in some other areas of life.

We would not have been able to achieve our plans and initiatives if we had not met on our way the supporters and helpers, who provided resources for us and regarded the necessary finan-cial resources as one of the means needed for the realization of something good.

For further extensive and current information on the Érme Business Network – the Statute, which is considered as our deed of foundation, news about the organisation and its members as well as events – please visit our website on ermehalo.hu.

Budapest, November 2014.

Leaders of the ÉrMe Business Network

József Tóth Péter Hadi András Schumicky

Balázs Szente Gábor Bethlenfalvy

We are thankful to our Fathers, who help ÉrMe and lead us spiritually, for the useful questions and for their support that helped us find the right path as well as to our Bishops for their unconditional trust in us.

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“...the goal of participation in business life is not the business success itself...”

Just over ten years after the fall of communism, a friendship group comprising Hungarian, Chris-tian entrepreneurs is founded as a result of the common way of thinking of 12 Hungarian entre-preneurs. Their goal is to find answers to the question: May their Christian faith be reconciled with their entrepreneurship? What does “being Christian and running a business” mean? Must they feel guilty because they live under better financial conditions than many other fellow-countrymen of theirs? Is making profit a sin? And so on...

More and more people join the friendship group, ÉrMe takes on a club’s character, and a kind of club life is taking shape. The members meet at fixed times each month, the deed of foundation, the ÉrMe Statute – which is still unchanged – is drawn up. The membership rules are established and the club organises its first advent charity auction at the end of 2003. This event has been organised each year since then.

The books entitled Managing as if Faith Mattered and Entrepreneurs differently are published in Hungary in 2004. The latter publication containing interviews with the leaders of ÉrMe – “érmés” entrepreneurs – contributed to the theoretical foundation of the public function of ÉrMe.The number of members reaches 70 persons operating in diverse professional and business areas (see the end of the publication), therefore the first brochure specially intended for internal use, providing business information for the members on each other’s companies is prepared in order to facilitate business transactions among members. Already at that time, it was one of the most important objectives of ÉrMe that its members should come together not only within the club, but their relationships should become stronger even during their everyday and business activities.

The number of members of the ÉrMe Club reaches 100 and the number of those interested ex-ceeds 300 persons. It became necessary that the club, which had operated informally until that time, continued to operate in a form that is also accepted by the Hungarian law. After lengthy consultations, the members decided to set up three organisations: a foundation, a non-profit enterprise and an association.

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The ÉrMe foundation (Business Value Preserver Foundation) has three main functions:a. it preserves and supervises the spirit of ÉrMe, which has also been put down in the Statute.b. organises the ÉrMe clubs,c. extends the knowledge of Christian entrepreneurs by organising trainings, supports them to reinforce their faith and to reconcile it with their vocation.

The basic function of ÉrMe Foundation is to lay the foundations of the network structure of ÉrMe, as well as to organise and develop it.The non-profit enterprise (Value Adding Non-profit Ltd as it is called today) is the project manage-ment organisation of the network, its owners are the members of ÉrMe, who founded the enter-prise by providing for the share capital and laid the foundations of starting the activities. Mutatis mutandis, the members leave the possibly resulting profits in the organisation, in full. The association, the KÉRME (Association for the Preservation of Christian Values), comprised those members who considered a more tightly closed and formal operation appropriate for them-selves. The members of the association form a club, the KÉRME Club.By establishing the three legal entities, the foundations of the ÉrMe Business Network had been laid down. The three legal entities and the two clubs were created.

In 2005, ÉrMe takes part in the conference in Vatican City organised for the 40th anniversary of the publication of Gaudium et Spes.

ÉrMe Foundation

KÉRME Club | ÉrMe Budapest Club | ÉrTe Nonprofit Ltd.

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As the first step of establishing the network, the Foundation sets up an internal, closed Internet network.

More and more construction craftsmen join ÉrMe and they establish the ÉrME Craftsman Club.The KÉRME Association joins the organisation of UNIAPAC.

In order to counterbalance the expected consequences of the exploding global economic crisis as well as to help several Christian employees having been made redundant to find a job, the HR Workshop is founded – it achieves many successful job placements and starts to organise job fairs, where real job opportunities are offered; furthermore, jobseekers are prepared for the job market e.g. by trainings.

The website of the ÉrMe Business Network, ermehalo.hu, as well as an electronic newsletter at that time under the name “Bridge-builder Business Magazine” is launched.What are the responsibilities and the mission of an entrepreneur? A significant part of the domestic society has a prejudice against entrepreneurs due to the years of communism. It is realised that one of the most important tasks of ÉrMe is to change this generalising and distorted image. At the end of 2009, a series of educational and informative lectures entitled Bucket List, intended for 11-12th Grade secondary school students is launched. Within the frameworks of this programme, we hold “discussion classes” of 45 minutes on entrepreneurship, the responsibili-ties of an entrepreneur as well as the role of money in more than 300 secondary school classes.

At the beginning of the year – when celebrating the tenth anniversary of the foundation of ÉrMe – a wider introduction of the ÉrMe Business Network to the public is started: press releases are sent out, press conferences are organised, media appearances follow each other, the first open evening of ÉrMe is organised.A Dominican Sister, Baritz Laura invents and organises the training Christian Social Principles in the Economy (KETEG) at the Sapientia Theological College. The ÉrMe Foundation takes on the complete management of the training as well as the professional performance of tasks related to its organisation, popularisation and advertisement. Supporting KETEG as well as finding and providing technical and financial background for the training becomes one of the strategic tasks of ÉrMe. ÉrMe employs staff to perform the increased amount of tasks and the operational management is taken over by a body consisting of the leaders of the organisations. Due to the development

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of the network, the functional adaptation of organic management methods is a new challenge, which enables the managers to effectively perform the increasing amount of tasks within the growing organisation, even in the form of volunteering: The managers of the individual organisations – forming a body – meet at regular times and

consult on matters regarding the organisation. The managers representing their own organisations take part in the consultations on an equal

basis. The individual ÉrMe clubs and organisations organise their activities autonomously. The body

of managers or the Foundation may formulate recommendations on individual issues to-wards the organisations.

The organisations organise their activities in such a way that they can help and develop the whole community, the ÉrMe Business Network and their own, local community.

In a settlement near Budapest, called Páty – on the basis of a circle of friends formed earlier from local entrepreneurs sympathising with the objectives of ÉrMe – the ÉrMe Páty Club is established. After the highly successful Bucket List Program, the ÉrMe Junior Program was also launched and the ÉrMe Junior Club is established in 2011. It turns into a club for young Christian career-start-ers aged between 14 and 28. Many ÉrMe-Club members’ sons and daughters join the Junior Club. Many ÉrMe Club members try to help young people: they support them either as start-up entre-preneurs or as career starter employees by means of mentoring programs and job opportunities.

The Dominican Sister, Helen Alford, the co-author of the book entitled Managing as if Faith Mat-tered, visits Hungary. On that occasion, an international conference is organised at the Sapientia Theological College, in collaboration with the ÉrMe Business Network and the KETEG; the main topic is “social enterprises”.The website of ÉrMe, ermehalo.hu, is renewed: since that time, news on the life of the network, on the activities of enterprises belonging to ÉrMe, reviews of articles, publications and events on the relationship of Christianity and the economy are regularly published, in addition to the basic information about the organization. We launch the ÉrMe Network Newsletter, for which anybody – apart from the members of the network – can sign up, who is interested in the issues and infor-mation important to ÉrMe.

As a result of the common way of thinking and work of the Hungarian Catholic Bishops’ Confer-ence, the KETEG training and the ÉrMe Foundation, the event Catholic Social Days is organised

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for the first time in Hungary. The event, with its approximately 18 thousand visitors, became the most successful Catholic event that year; the diversity of the Hungarian Catholic Church as well as its everyday work performed quietly and with humility in the Hungarian society was introduced during the three-day event. The uniform and unconditional trust and support of the Hungarian bishops related to the organisation of such a big event is elevating, inspirating and honourable for the ÉrMe Business Network.

At the beginning of the year, the ÉrMe Bakony Club is established, which is intended to comprise the Christian entrepreneurs and company managers living in Veszprém and in the neighbouring settlements.The ÉrMe Business Network organises the conference entitled The Economics of Happiness in Budapest also in collaboration with the KETEG. More than three hundred people visit the event clarifying theoretical questions. On that occasion, ÉrMe has the important Vatican doc-ument entitled The Vocation of Business Leader translated and makes it available on its web-site.On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of starting the seminars “Management by Jesus” organised by the Jesuit monk, Kiss Ulrich, a symposium takes place assisted by ÉrMe. Its main topic is start-up enterprises, under the title: It is always good to undertake.The ÉrMe Business Network organises the next event of the series called “Catholic Social Days” in Miskolc. In spite of the rainy weather, nearly four thousand people visited the event. There is a clear demand for establishing an ÉrMe Club in Miskolc.The three-year series of events related to the program Value of Values organised by KÉRME is launched, its objective is to introduce the answers worded on the basis of Christian values to the questions raised by the prolonged economic crisis into the public consciousness. At the first conference of the series, the program is introduced and the Hungarian edition of the document entitled The Vocation of Business Leader is published in printing on that occasion.

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”Commitment, rather than ambition”

CHARITY AUCTIONS – ÉrMe has been organising charity auctions each year at Christmas time, since the beginnings. On the occasion of each auction, 3-5 purposes are supported from the income, mostly such community initiatives which aim to help those in need or serve other noble causes. (In collaboration with all the organisations of the ÉrMe Business Network)

CATHOLIC SOCIAL DAYS – The Caritas in Veritate Commission of the Hungarian Catholic Bishops’ Conference entrusted the ÉrMe Business Network with the practical arrangement of the Catholic Social Days. The event extensively introducing the social activities of the church took place in Budapest in 2013 and in Miskolc in 2014; the series is expected to continue even in the coming years. (In collaboration with: ÉrMe Foundation, ÉrMe Budapest Club, ÉrMe Junior Club, ÉrMe Miskolc Club)

CHRISTIAN SOCIAL PRINCIPLES IN THE ECONOMY – The ÉrMe Business Network sup-ports the training Christian Social Principles in the Economy (KETEG) – which was started on the initiative of the Dominican Sister, Baritz Laura – organised by the Sapientia Monastic Theological College, in many different ways. It participates in the education with help of lecturers, it helps to popularise the program as well as organises several common conferences. (In collaboration with: the ÉrMe Foundation)

MANAGEMENT BY JESUS – The manager training seminars entitled Management by Jesus (MbJ), started by the Jesuit monk, Kiss Ulrich, accompany the history of the ÉrMe Business Net-work: the majority of members have completed the course, many of them have also taken part in its organisation and improvement. On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the operation of Mbj, ÉrMe took on the organisation of the start-up conference. (In collaboration with: ÉrMe Buda-pest Club, KÉRME Club, ÉrMe Foundation)

SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM – Supporting the costs of postgraduate education of Catholic stu-dents within the frameworks of an international program. (In collaboration with: the ÉrMe Founda-tion)

INTERNATIONAL PRESENCE – UNIAPAC is an international non-profit organisation of Catho-lic company managers, it is present in 25 countries and is in connection with 20 further countries,

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its company seat is in Brussels. The ÉrMe Business Network is represented by KÉRME within the organisation. (In collaboration with: KÉRME Association)

HR WORKSHOP, COMMUNITY JOB FAIR – The ÉrMe Business Network – in line with its basic principles – is committed to assist those in need to find a job. It is supported by the job place-ment service on the website ermehalo.hu, where reference-based search and login ensure value orientation for the job seekers as well as for the employers. The Community Job Fairs organised occasionally for the persons registered have the same objectives. (In collaboration with: ÉrMe HR Workshop, ÉrMe Budapest Club, ÉrTe Non-profit Ltd.)

BUCKET LIST PROGRAM – The Program, within the frameworks of which entrepreneurs be-longing to the ÉrMe Business Network held lectures, got to several secondary schools of the country. The objective is to introduce entrepreneurship as a possible career and a way of life to the specific age group, in a lifelike way. (In collaboration with: ÉrTe Non-profit Ltd, ÉrMe Budapest Club)

PUBLISHING BOOKS – ÉrMe has supported the publication of several books, which are in line with its values, for example: Capitalism and Christianity (2004) , Luigino Bruni–Stefano Zamagni: Civil Economy (2014), Joachim Jauer: Urbi et Gorbi (2014), The Value of Values (2014), The Voca-tion of Business Leader (2014), On the Way towards Honest Life (2014) (In collaboration with: ÉrMe Foundation, ÉrMePáty Club, KÉRME Association)

CONSTRUCTION-RENOVATION PROJECTS OF THE CHURCH – Related to the personal commitments of the Ér-Me members, the Network has contributed to several local construction projects of the church. Such as the construction of the Church Blessed John Paul II in Páty, the constructions of the SJP monastic community operating in Somogydöröcke and its neighbour-hood, as well as the Community Centre Rumi Tamás of the parish in Felsőgöd. (In collaboration with: ÉrMe Páty Club, ÉrMe Budapest Club)

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“...Christian values andthe successful and effective participation

in business life are not incompatible.”

Being an entrepreneur is a vocation – we cannot live otherwise than as entrepreneurs! Why are we not satisfied with the maximisation of our business profits, why do we devote our time, en-ergy, money to a nobler purpose? The reason is perhaps that we feel if we increased only our material assets, it would mean burying our talents. We are given a vocation: we are shaping and transforming the world around us, we play active parts in the Creator’s work. Realising it is more than profit. The successfulness of our enterprise is not to be underestimated, but it is far from sufficient to achieve our human and spiritual accomplishment! If it was so, I would be in captiv-ity! My experience has shown that we, in ÉrMe feel so: we can only multiply our talents while working for achieving a higher purpose, in a community. What the past nearly 15 years of ÉrMe means to me is the evolution of our existence as human beings with spirits and as entrepreneurs, which is full of struggles and during which we all intend to add something to this “Good”, to the common good.

According to my experience, many Christian entrepreneurs and managers are really lonely in a spiritual sense. On the one hand because the business partners, they get in touch with, cannot understand what they are doing in the business life as Christians, why they want to enforce Chris-tian values in a place, where it is – apparently – not appropriate. On the other hand, the members of Christian communities also tend to look at those working in the business life with distrust: they cannot understand how someone can take part in something that can – in their opinion – only be a materialistic, tricky and exploiting world. I consider the existence of the ÉrMe Business Network immensely important because it can give a spiritual home to those who would like to be good Christians and good businessmen at the same time. It is clear that creating harmony in the everyday life is not such a thing that could be easily learnt from a manual and that would work afterwards. To achieve this, a live community, a lot of discussions, common ways of thinking, listening to lectures are needed – ÉrME offers plenty of opportunities to do so. As a Board mem-ber of the ÉrMe Foundation, I am working hard in order to provide background and resources for everything as well as to support the birth of new ideas. Recently, I have actively taken part in those business breakfasts, where we talk about how we could give more business opportunities to the enterprises belonging to the ÉrMe Business Network by exploiting our personal relation-ships and our ability to cooperate.

JÓZSEFTÓTH

PÉTERHADI

Entrepreneurship is a vocation…

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The basic idea of the ÉrMe Business Network is that a business enterprise may also be made suc-cessful by using Christian approaches and values - what is more, perhaps it is the only way to be really successful... If this realisation spreads widely, it can make the society, where we live, better. For this reason, it is our responsibility that ÉrMe sets an example; it should be leaven in the world. When I was invited to ÉrMe, I was enthusiastic to join it immediately and since that time I have been trying to assist - as a board member for many years - to build out a strong network based on the common values and trust: we are trying to confirm each other in business matters and give each other opportunities. Primarily, it is the role of catalysts that I have got: I keep my eyes open and turn my attention to the persons who are worth inviting, who need confirmation, who we can learn from. It was an important step when I managed to start the new ÉrME Club in my place of living, in Páty; it has also served as an example for as well as encouraged the launch of several other local clubs.

In my region I can see that the Christian communities are – thanks to God – becoming stronger and multiplying and there are more and more issues related to which they cooperate with each other. It demonstrates the existence of such an underlying humility and wisdom, for which there is a great demand in the Carpathian Basin, and especially in Hungary. It is true at home and in our wider environment as well that communities based on the values of the universal culture yield fruit, experience the beauty of the creation day by day and they are fit for modern approaches, way of thinking, attitude and actions, which go back to the traditions at the same time. For all these, I am trying to do something as a private person and as an entrepreneur.

There are some who are not interested in the relationship between the Christian values and en-trepreneurship and there are some who are. I had already belonged to the latter category, when I was not yet the owner of my own enterprise. Several of my articles and interviews were pub-lished in connection with this topic, so it was unambiguous that I would get some responsibilities related to communication within the ÉrMe Business Network as well. On the one hand, as the editor in chief of the website of the Network, ermehalo.hu, I work on making the attitude and values of the ÉrMe community available and comprehensible for the wider public. The other main function of the website is that it should be a reliable means of collaboration, communica-tion and information flow among the members of the Network.

ANDRÁS SCHUMICKY

BALÁZSSZENTE

GÁBOR BETHLENFALVY

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“...accepting and keeping the written and unwritten rules...”

We are building an organic organisation and network, the framework of which is given by finding a healthy proportion between FLEXIBILTY AND ORDER at any time. Basically successful enterprises or those striving for success are invited and awaited to the net-work.

According to our experience, those are considered successful:

who perform socially useful activities; the development of whose organisation is sustainable; who reliably take care of others; who can create long-term financial security; whose activities elicit appreciation within the trade; who operate in a stabile and reliable way.

OUR VALUES AND ACHIEVEMENTS

fairness | moderation | solidarity | subsidiarity

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ÉRME FOUNDATION – Value Preservation Public Benefit FoundationMain tasks of the foundation:Preserving the flame, that is, evaluating and certifying the activities performed by the formal and informal organizations of ÉrMe Business Network.Management and development of the spiritual and material „assets” of ÉrMe, in addition to sup-porting activities, organizations or individuals deemed appropriate by the foundation.Supervising the use of “ÉrMe” as a trademark, as well as its granting or revoking, if necessary.

ÉRTE NONPROFIT LTD. – Value Creation Business and Enterprise Development Nonprofit Kft.Value Creation Kft. is the organizer, coordinator and developer of the institutional business co-operation between the members of ÉrMe Business Network. It aims to provide a framework and background for starting new companies, developing new business ideas, and helping and sup-porting them particularly in the beginning to the extent its assets allow.Main activities:Mediation services for small and medium-sized businesses;Performing constructional and other assignments the amount of which ranges between HUF 5 thousand and HUF 5 million.

ÉRME BUDAPEST CLUBÉrMe Budapest Club is the first club of ÉrMe, which is still considered the largest and most organ-ized community. It serves as a model for other similar organizations. Club members encourage and even personally take part in the creation of new local clubs.

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KÉRME CLUB – Christian Value Preservation AssociationThe Christian Value Preservation Association was established with the aim of finding relationship with those who seek as a businessman or an entrepreneur to make the world better, and who wish to do more for those whom they are responsible for. Given the name and mission of KÉRME, the association is concerned with sustainability, social justice, and social responsibility regarding several topics, as well as it deals with the leadership responsibility and activities related to them.

ÉRME PÁTY CLUBGathers entrepreneurs living in Páty and its surrounding settlements, most of whom have been attending events organized by the Budapest Club. The club focuses on strengthening local com-munities, performing tasks arising locally, and making improvements to the local living space.

ÉRME BAKONY CLUBThe new organization of ÉrMe aims at gathering the Christian entrepreneurs living dispersedly in the central western region of the country, often not knowing each other. With the cessation of the Budapest-centeredness of ÉrMe, new values are added to the network. With internal sources available for the network, ÉrMe supports and strengthens local initiatives whether they are of business or social importance.

ÉRME MISKOLC CLUBThe Catholic Social Days in Miskolc (KATTÁRS) in 2014 was organized with the help of the local Catholic entrepreneurs. ÉrMe Business Network aimed to solve the most possible tasks with local entrepreneurs involved, and to rely on their local knowledge and selfless help. The indirect result of the cooperation is the organization of ÉrMe Miskolc Club. The new club will hopefully carry the spirit of KATTÁRS and ÉrMe to the North-East of Hungary.

ÉRME JUNIOR CLUBMany of the children of the members of other ÉrMe clubs who represent the next generation and are entering the job market join this junior club. This organization is the place of freshness, seeking ways, as well as creating innovative ideas and initiatives. This contributes a lot to the ef-ficient functioning of the entire ÉrMe Business Network; in return, the network is trying to provide professional and human support to help young members.

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ÉRME CONSTRUCTIONAL ROUNDTABLE, ÉRME PROFESSIONALS’ CLUBÉrMe Professionals’ Club was founded to provide a meeting and cooperation opportunity for the young professionals working mainly in the construction business. The members of ÉrMe Con-structional Roundtable, which was established later, come from the other local ÉrMe club mem-bers; they provide a wider spectrum of construction services (in addition to the construction, design, building material distribution and real estate development are also included in the scope of activities). The members of the Roundtable have cooperated in several important construc-tional projects, and relied on the entrepreneurs of the professionals’ club as far as possible.

ÉRME BUSINESS MORNING CLUBAn informal organization specifically focusing on business relationships: every two weeks, early in the morning, before business life starts, the entrepreneurs of ÉrMe who aim to strengthen the business potential of the network, or have business news to share with the members of the network, as well as seek or offer business opportunities, have breakfast together. From the profit of the businesses realized within the framework of the network, the members have provided support for the communities. The funds provided during the recent years have been covering the salary of the manager assigned by ÉrMe as well as the publishing costs and the expenses arising from the organization of conferences.

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ÉrMe Business Network Main activities

• Accounting• Acupuncture• Adult education• Air handling equipment of

swimming pools• Architectural design• Archiving• Auditing• Automobile distribution• Banknote processing services• Binding equipment distribution• Book publishing• Building and supervision of IT

systems• Building and supervision of IT

systems• Building communities• Bus rental• CAD installation• Calendar design• Canon and HP product portfolio

A-Z• Certifying basketball court• Child guidance• Coaching• Coin processing services

• Commercial graphics• Conference organization

(computer science)• Construction services A-Z• Consulting services for local

governments• Corporate law services at home

and abroad• Cost optimization of printing and

copying systems• Creating websites• Crisis management• Customs clearance• Cutting machine distribution• Database management• Design• Design and construction of

computer systems• Design and construction of steel

structures• Design and installation of steel

tanks and beakers• Design of crests and logos• Design, construction

and distribution of truck superstructures

• Design, construction and maintenance of pneumatic tube systems

• Design, installation and maintenance of air conditionals

• Design, installation and maintenance of air handling systems

• Design, installation and maintenance of dehumidification equipment

• Design, installation and maintenance of dehumidifier equipment

• Design, manufacturing and distribution of chip cards

• Designing and building solar system

• Development and financing of environmental projects

• Development and management of regional development projects

• Development and supervision of industrial investment

• Distributing CD ‘Complete works of István Széchenyi’

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• Distributing tank trucks• Distributing trucks• Distribution and manufacturing of

exclusive furniture • Distribution of archive and

storage boxes• Distribution of bank equipment• Distribution of books and notes• Distribution of Canon and HP

accessories • Distribution of decorative

cushions • Distribution of digital cameras• Distribution of fruit and

ornamental trees• Distribution of hall heating

equipment (mobile and built-in)• Distribution of industrial drills• Distribution of musical instrument

accessories (jets, reeds, cases, etc.)• Distribution of Nemetschek CAD

programs• Distribution of paper shredders• Distribution of sanitary

engineering• Distribution of second-hand

clothes• Distribution of security equipment• Distribution of sheet music stands• Distribution of soldering

equipment• Distribution of surf-, ski and

snowboard tools• Distribution of trip equipment• Document management• Domestic and foreign trade of

food• Ear, nose & throat specialist

services• Economic consultancy• Education• Education of quality management• Electrical consulting (heavy- and

light-current)• Electronic signature• Engraving, design and

manufacturing of company gifts• Equine education• EU-application writing• Export of motor vehicle parts • Exporting know-hows• Factoring• Felling• Festival and exhibition

organization• Financial consulting• Financial consulting services for

local governments• Financing consultancy• Fire-fighting systems and

techniques• General construction• Graphic design and construction• Graphology• Health information technology• Healthy food• Home renovation• Home rental• Horse management• Horse pension• Hot air blower distribution and

rental

• Hotel services• Hotel services• HR-consulting• Industrial analysers• Industrial automation• Industrial design of the catering • Information technology A-Z • Installation of CAFM-systems• Installation of electrical wiring and

fittings• Insurance• Insurance consulting• International passenger transport• Interpreting, translation,

education (German, English, Russian)

• Investment consulting• Investment management• Irrigation system installation• IT consulting• IT project management• Kitchen technology design• Landscaping• Leadership training• Leasing• Legal services• Legal servicesDevelopment of

business and activities• Making film references• Management consulting• Manufacturing and distributing

doors and windows• Manufacturing and distributing

pressure vessels • Manufacturing and distribution of

organic products

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• Manufacturing and distribution of packaging materials

• Marketing communication• Marketing consulting• Mechanical engineering• Mediation – social, business and

personal• Metal manufacturing• Mining machinery distribution• Mobile air condition rental• Mobile data transfer• Mobile telecommunications• Movie animation• Music education• Music services• Newspaper publishing• Office assistance services• Office cleaning• Office machine rental and

distribution• Office machinery and equipment

distribution and rental • Office rental• Office tools distribution• Organization and provision of

internet advertisements• Organizational development• Outdoor equipment distribution• Passenger transport• Pasta production and distribution• Pension in Budaörs• Pharmaceutical research• Photo services• Plumbing services for industrial

supply• Prepress services

• Printing• Printing in network• Process management• Production and distribution of

goat milk and dairy products made of goat milk

• Production and distribution of organic manure

• Production and distribution of plastic doors and windows

• Production and distribution of textile products for kitchens

• Project management• Projector distribution and rental • Projector rental and distribution • Promotional gifts• Property sales• Publishing “Borbarát” magazine• Publishing activity• Publishing and distributing books,

journals and CDs• Publishing weekly and monthly

IT-magazines• Quality assurance• Quality certification• Quality control• Quality inspection• Real estate agency• Real estate appraisal• Real estate at home and abroad• Reconstruction and distribution of

folk instruments• Refrigeration technology• Repair, manufacturing and

distribution of musical instruments

• Restaurant services• Safety consulting• Scanning services in network• Scientific special editions of

information technology • Self-development• Shipping• Shredding • Software development• Soil and foliar fertilizer distribution• Sports equipment rental• Static design• Storage rental• Strategic consulting• Sulinet program• System organization• Tax consultancy• Technical consulting• Technical inspection• Telecommunications• Tender writing• Training organization• Transport of hazardous ADR

goods• Transport of Hw systems• Transportation• Travel services• Ventilation techniques • Veterinary probiotics• Water treatment (swimming pool,

spa, home)• Web design• Web services• Wholesale of textiles

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ÉrMe aims to connect the people and organizations preserving basic values of the Christian Hungarians when doing business, and believe that the goal of business profitability is not only success, but creating the financial basis for the solidarity with the needy living in our close and distant environment as well as ensuring the equality of opportunity.

In accordance with the aforementioned, members of ÉrMe shall comply with the following four basic criteria:

1. Actively participate in economic (business) processes (in the broadest sense of economic and business processes).

2. Recognize and actively strive to realize traditional Christian values in daily and business life.3. Declare to be Hungarian, and know the Hungarian language as well.4. Cooperation in ÉrMe is based on the Christian brotherly love.

Basic principles of the organization, namely the Christian Business Rule:

CHRISTIAN IN ITS CONTENT: that is, not tolerating any un-Christian behaviour as regards the member him/herself. Neither the organization, nor its members are allowed to overstep mor-al and ethical boundaries and act in a manner contrary Christian morality. Decisions on ethical issues shall be taken by the members of ÉrMe on the basis of their own internal values.

CHRISTIAN IN ITS FORM: that is, the formal elements of Christianity are present in the organ-ization even if in their ecumenical form.

PATIENT, NON-CONFRONTATIONAL: that is, the member of ÉrMe can indicate loss of con-fidence in another member of the community for any reason by ceasing cooperation with that certain member, but shall continue communication. However, he/she cannot call or encourage anyone to adapt this behaviour. If anyone who has no confidence in a member of ÉrMe, he/she shall ask another member of the community who he/she trusts. The questioned person shall give an honest reply, or may refuse to answer.

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OPEN: that is, everyone who agrees with the basic values of ÉrMe and complies with the basic criteria is welcome as member of ÉrMe.

NON-EXCLUSIVE: On the one hand, since the members of ÉrMe are not only concerned with business, ÉrMe actively supports emerging non-business relationships between its members as well. On the other hand, in addition to being a member in ÉrMe, we encourage our members to actively participate in other communities as well.

SUCCESS-ORIENTED: concerning its key objective, the organization was founded to help its members to succeed in business life. In order to serve the common interest, the community ex-pects from its members:

Cooperation: with regard to the fact that the basic principles (traditional Christian Hungar-ian values) and goals (to succeed in the economic life) are in accordance, ÉrMe expects its members to ensure maximum cooperation as much as possible.

Development of trust-based relationships: the members of ÉrMe basically have confidence in each other. Becoming a member of ÉrMe is principally the first step of recognition, add ressing and building trust.

Unselfishness towards the community: every community is able to provide for its members

to the extent they provide for the community. The same applies to ÉrMe.

Strive to realize altruistic mutuality.

Activity: active participation according to the personal abilities.

Financial support: ÉrMe requires its members to financially support the realization of the

goals determined by the community.

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ÉrMe Business Network – Contacts

Network leaders’ contacts:József Tóth – jozsef_toth@t-online.humobile: +36-30-250-2239Péter Hadi – hadi.peter@evisit.humobile: +36-20-977-5918András Schumicky – schumicky@t-online.humobile: +36-20-922-8095Balázs Szente – szente.balazs@gerardus.humobile: +36-30-9191-299

Website of ÉrMe Business Network www.ermehalo.hu

ÉrMe FoundationJózsef Tóth president – elnok@ermehalo.huPéter Hadi vice-president – alelnok@ermahalo.hu

ÉrTe Nonprofit Kft.András Schumiczky CEO - kft@ermehalo.huBalázs Petneházy CEO

KÉRME AssociationJános Bojta president – elnok@kerme.hu

Member leaders of ÉrMe Business Network (2014): Gábor Bethlenfalvy, István Bíró, János Bojta, Péter Hadi, Dávid Jávori, Endre Király, András Schumicky, György Schumicky, Zoltán Simon, Balázs Szente, József Tóth, Dénes Völgyi, Balázs Zugor

Managing director of the network: Gergely Dózsa, ÉrMe-manager manager@ermehalo.hu Chief Editor of ermehalo.hu: Gábor Bethlenfalvy – szerkesztoseg@ermehalo.hu

E-mail address of clubs:ÉrMe Budapest Club – budapestklub@ermehalo.huKÉRME Club – klub@kerme.huÉrMe Páty Club – patyklub@ermehalo.huÉrMe Bakony Club – bakonyklub@ermahalo.huÉrMe Miskolc Club – miskolcklub@ermahalo.huÉrMe Professionals’ club – szakember@ermehalo.huÉrMe Junior Club – ermejunior@gmail.com

Professional Roundtables:ÉrMe Constructional Roundtable - epito@ermahalo.huÉrMe HR Roundtable - hr@ermehalo.hu

Business is not only about profit

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