The property insurance chief of a leading insurer has expressed doubts over the recently presented figures showing a decline in crime.Federal Crime Office (BK) director Franz Lang said earlier this week that 2,617 car thefts were reports across Austria in 2010, significantly fewer than in the previous year when 5,297 such offences occurred. He also […]
Police in Vienna are investigating after a popular city centre department store was evacuated due to a bomb warning yesterday afternoon (Weds).Around 700 shoppers and staff were asked to leave the nine-storey Steffl store after a male voice warned its managers office of a bomb in the building in a phone call around 5pm.Police, who […]
Oil and gas company OMV has withdrawn most of its staff from Tunisia, it has been reported.Dozens of people have died since last week when thousands of citizens took to the streets to demonstrate against the North African countrys regime.OMV told the Salzburger Nachrichten newspaper today (Thurs) that 54 of its 66 employees have preliminary […]
Polytec achieves turnaround
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Automotive industry supplier Polytec Holding AG (Polytec) managed to get back in the black last year, according to preliminary figures.The Hörsching-based firm said today (Thurs) that preliminary results suggest that the annual turnover rose by 27 per cent year on year to 770 million EurosPolytec added its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (Ebitda) […]
FlyNiki aims partnership with Emirates
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Austrian low-cost carrier FlyNiki is considering a cooperation with Emirates, it has emerged.Asked to comment on reports in the Austrian media that his airline wants to team up with the Dubai-based aviation giant, FlyNiki CEO Niki Lauda said today (Thurs): “Im open towards all sides and options including Emirates.”Business newspapers have it that the […]
Austria is moving further away from meeting agreed greenhouse gas emission limits as lorry traffic is on the rise.New figures presented by the Austrian Traffic Club (VCÖ) today (Thurs) show that the volume of lorry traffic on Austrias busiest motorways increased year on year in 2010.The organisation, which examined road authority Asfinags annual data, said […]
A former Blue Danube Airport employee will be in court for alleged embezzlement next month, it emerged today (Thurs).The Provincial Court in Linz, Upper Austria, announced that the 52-year-old faces a trial on 4 February. She is suspected of having pocketed more than 585,000 Euros of the airport’s assets since May 2002.The airport is located […]
CAT oil grabs more Russian assignments
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Oil and gas exploration equipment producer CAT oil AG has managed to raise its order volume in Russia.The Viennese firm, which is listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (FWB), announced it received assignments from Russian oil and gas firms worth 222 million Euros as of today (Thurs), up by eight per cent year on year.”This […]
Inter snare Knasmüllner
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An up-and-coming Austrian footballer has joined 2010 UEFA Champions League winners Inter.Christoph Knasmüllners agent Otto Hauptmann said today (Thurs) that the midfielders current club Bayern Munich had agreed with the Italian giants on a transfer.Knasmüllner, who joined the German Bundesliga champions from the youth department of Austrian Bundesliga Austria Vienna in 2008, will undergo medical […]
Boy killed by snow groomer
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A primary school student died instantly in a freak skiing accident around midday today (Thurs).Officials in the ski resort of Rußbach in Salzburgs Tennengau region announced that the boy whose nationality and age were not given skidded down a hill for around 200 metres after dropping out of a tow lift. He was […]