Kurt Kft of Budapest, Hungary, announced that it had turned over $2.5m last year in its core activity of recovering data from failed hard disk drives – nearly $1m of this was clear profit, according to co-founder Dr Sandor Kurti. Although most of the firm’s revenue last year was derived from the domestic market, Kurt also secured $500,000 of business from the Austria and exhibiting at CeBIT, the firm launched a programme for potential partners called the ‘European Data Recovery Scheme’. The firm expects to make significant inroads into the German market next year and is rumoured to be on the point of signing up a very large German full-line computer systems supplier which would use its facilities in Hungary to repair failed disk drives. As a separate activity Kurt also acts as a dealer for AST Research Inc, Digital Equipment Corp, Compaq Computer Corp, Novell Inc and Borland International Inc.
