Already from the Instagram description of Tímea Ráthonyi Palácsik, or Tímea Vajna as she is known in Hungary, it was revealed that the former businesswoman’s local corporate career had ended, as she presented herself only as the former owner of Nobu Budapest. Interestingly, by the way, she also listed her two former interests in the company: the cake maker Mr. Funk, who no longer survived the coronavirus pandemic, and the local license for Miss Universe, which has changed hands several times since then.
When the company reports were published, we mentioned that Nobu Budapest, the local unit of the world-famous luxury restaurant franchise, which operates next to the Kempinski Hotel on Erzsébet tér. It is owned by Buno Kft., of which AV Investments Kft. was the majority owner with 51 percent, and this was the last part of the legacy of the former Andy Vajna company – Tímea Ráthonyi Palácsik was interested in this company with Andy Vajna's former business partner, Samuel Russell Falconello. , Cinergi Entertainment LLC – through
In 2023, Buno Kft. reported sales revenue of HUF 1.49 billion, which it achieved domestically without exception. From the large income, it ended up with an after-tax profit of HUF 102.8 million, a significant decrease compared to the profit of HUF 201 million in the previous year – but the owners can certainly be satisfied anyway. Buno Kft. paid dividends regularly in previous years, but this did not happen in 2023, and the aforementioned HUF 102.8 million was put into the profit reserve.
Rumors have been circulating for years that the widow of the government commissioner for cinema would get rid of all her domestic interests, since she started a new life in the United States and had already obtained citizenship – well, with the release of Nobu, this happened. Rathoni Palacsik, former senior official at Buno Kft According to the data available in the Opten system He returned to this position as of the end of August, while AV Investments Kft officially left the company on August 21.
The abandonment of the Nobu operator also proves that something has already come to an end: AV Investments Kft was liquidated in May 2024 after almost ten years of operation – and that is still going on.
Not just anyone is the new owner.
As we wrote in our previous article, the minority owner of the company was Buno Investment Kft., which belongs to the Ráthonyi family, and its managing director is Zoltán Ráthonyi, who married Tímea Vajna in 2023. Well, in August, both husband and wife left the company behind Nobo, and according to the company information database, a new owner has arrived: Bárány Invest Kft is owned by the László Bárány family.
the In the 2024 list, she ranks 23rd in the richest Hungarian assets. Among other things, it was acquired by the poultry processing company Master Good, which was valued at HUF 89.7 billion this year. His sons, László and Péter, are actively involved in the business operations, so they also appear as senior officials in the company that acquired the Nobo operator, along with László Bárányi the elder.
