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Only eight percent of employers plan to raise pay in the last quarter of the year. This is the lowest willingness to raise wages in the past two years, during which the staffing agency Předvýběr.CZ has been monitoring a panel of about a hundred regular respondents: owners, managers and HR staff.

BioLife has opened a blood plasma donation centre in Chomutov. It is located in the OC Central shopping centre on Žižkovo náměstí and is the company's twelfth collection point in the Czech Republic. Among the first donors was a volunteer firefighter who donates together with colleagues from his brigade. According to the company, plasma is used to make medicines for patients with, for example, immune disorders or haemophilia.

In the third year of the Čisté obce s NEVAJGLUJ contest, the municipality of Drhovy won with its clean-up event Ukliďme Drhovy a Homoli, receiving a prize of CZK 60,000. Municipalities from across the country that have a cost-reimbursement contract with NEVAJGLUJ a.s. could enter. Judging considered public involvement, the long-term benefit of the project, its environmental impact and support on social media.

Angelalign Technology announced on 2 October 2026 the launch of a „pressure points“ feature for torque correction on the European market. It replaces the existing torque attachments on Angel Aligner clear aligners. At first it is intended for torque correction in a single configuration and is expected to extend to rotation and intrusion. The high trimline of the aligners covers the whole tooth surface and up to 2 mm of gum.

The hotel group Czech Inn Hotels handed a symbolic cheque to the Foundation of Football Internationals before the match between the Czech Republic and England. The cooperation began with contracts signed in spring. The group is, together with Sparta and Slavia, the main donor of the book Liga 100 Mistrů and provided accommodation and refreshments at events of former national-team players. The cheque was received by the foundation's president Antonín Panenka.

Hospodářská komora welcomed the decision of 30 September 2026 by the environment committee of the Chamber of Deputies to move on to further deliberation a proposal to modernise the company EKO-KOM. According to the chamber, the reform is to bring more efficient handling of packaging and products. The release does not give the wording of the proposal or the date of further deliberation.

The Asociace poskytovatelů adiktologických služeb (APAS) launched a campaign under the motto „Udělej si jasno“ with an online tool called Rizikoměr. By the title of the release, the tool concerns alcohol, gambling and time spent in front of a screen. The press release is dated 1 October 2026.

MINT rezidenční fond has bought the newly completed building E at Vysočanský mlýn from Metrostav Development, with 306 flats totalling 11,500 square metres. It now owns 547 flats on the former Odkolek bakery site, more than half of the development. It will furnish the studio and one-bedroom flats and offer them for rent from January 2027 through its Mint Living platform; the 241 flats from the first phase have been let since 2024 with occupancy of around 98 per cent.

Poland completed 208,800 flats in 2025 and Czechia 33,430; per thousand inhabitants that is 5.59 against 3.06, roughly 83 per cent more. Housing starts were 212,400 against 35,819. If Czechia built at the same rate, ARETE says, it would add about 61,000 flats a year instead of 33,000. Logistics is the other way round: Czechia has 1.26 square metres of modern warehouse space per person, Poland 1.02.

The developer Crestyl and the investment group WOOD & Company are preparing a quarter by the Šárka nature park in Vokovice with 18 apartment villas holding 224 flats, four family houses, a nursery school and space for shops and services. The project has a valid building permit and the former industrial and logistics site has been demolished. The first phase of 98 flats from 62 to 165 square metres will start at the turn of the year, completion is expected in 2029 and the total investment is to exceed four billion crowns.