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The Czech Republic’s video games industry is having a very good year to date. A number of releases have racked up impressive sales figures, while Chuchel has just earned a prize at the Independent Games Festival in the US.

When company bosses take a step back from a project they have initiated and backed you might well suspect that it’s going to hit the wall or be kicked into the thick grass, to mix a few metaphors.

Almost 80 percent of locally-based companies are disturbed by a recent debate in the Czech Republic about a referendum on leaving the European Union, suggests a new survey. And over a quarter of firms would consider upping sticks if what has been dubbed Czexit were to actually take place, the study indicates.

The year 2017 was the most successful so far in Mladá Boleslav-based carmaker Škoda Auto’s history, CEO Bernhard Maier has confirmed for news site iDnes. According to the company head, the number of cars produced in 2017 was 6.6 percent higher than a year earlier, for a total of 1,200,500 vehicles manufactured.

Czech billionaire Tomáš Němec has expanded his ski-manufacturing business by acquiring a majority share in the Austrian company Kästle, the Czech News Agency reported on Tuesday.

The Czech Chamber of Commerce on Monday marked 25 years of existence. The organisation’s president, Vladimír Dlouhý, says its members have much to be pleased about – but says the state and the business community need to plan now for a future of increased automation.

Consolidation on the Czech publishing scene is proceeding apace following the announcement that one of the country’s biggest publishers is taking over one of the oldest companies still on the market.

Construction works on a section of the planned new “D” line of the Prague Metro system, leading from Pankrác to Depo Písnice, should cost 39.7 billion crowns, suggests a document discussed by Prague city’s municipal Transport Committee this week.

Czechs’ financial literacy improved since last year by only the very slightest of margins an annual survey commissioned by the Czech Banking Association has shown. According to the survey, they picked up 56 points out of a possible 100. The news isn’t all bad though: the number of Czechs setting aside savings has at least increased, Czech Radio confirmed.

Czech trade unions want to push through a shorter, 37.5-hour working week, and cut the present working hours by half an hour a day without lowering salaries, the daily Lidové noviny reported on Monday.