A 35-year-old Italian has been sentenced to jail for human trafficking.The man was caught trying to smuggle four illegal immigrants from Afghanistan to Germany last year. He reportedly asked for 400 to 500 Euros from each of the men to get them to Rosenheim in Bavaria. He was arrested during a traffic check in the […]
Philip Morris International (PMI) is the new number one on the Austrian tobacco products market, as figures presented today (Fri) show.Research group AC Nielsen said the American company held a 35.5 per cent share in Austria, while 34.5 per cent of cigarettes sold in the country in 2010 were products of Japan Tobacco International (JTI). […]
T-Mobile Austria managed to attract almost 10 per cent more new customers last year.The Vienna-based company said today (Fri) it had 3.78 million clients in 2010, up by 9.6 per cent year on year. T-Mobile Austria however also announced that its turnover declined by five per cent to 983 million Euros.T-Mobile is the number one […]
Glanegg-based machine manufacturer Hirsch Servo AG has achieved a significant turnover increase.The Carinthian company said today (Fri) that its turnover improved by 20 per cent to 47 million Euros in the first half of the 2010/2011 business year. Its earnings before interest and taxes (Ebit) reached 620,000 Euros after losses of 2.19 million Euros in […]
The Austrian government has reduced its travel expenses.A parliamentary enquiry by the Freedom Party (FPÖ) showed yesterday (Thurs) that the Social Democrats (SPÖ) and the Peoples Party (ÖVP) spent 2.2 million Euros on 220 trips abroad last year, less than in 2004 and 2008. Figures for 2009 have not been disclosed since no parliamentary faction […]
Four people were arrested after police discovered copper cables weighing nearly 400 kilograms in their car.The suspects three men and one woman from Poland were put in custody in Salzburg after a random traffic check in Bruck an der Leitha, Lower Austria yesterday (Thurs).The group claimed to have bought the cables in Italy. […]
A new generation of radar traps has gone into operation.Road authorities said today (Fri) that they have begun setting up high-tech speed cameras on some of Austrias busiest motorways.Motorway authority Asfinag explained that the new devices were already operating at the A21 Außenring motorway in Vienna, the A10 Tauern motorway in Salzburg and the S1 […]
Viennese media have claimed there is much speculation surrounding the death of an ambassador at the age of just 42.Fuad Ismayilov – the Azerbaijani ambassador to Austria – died of cardiac failure, according to an official statement. His body will be transferred to Baku, the federal capital of the Eurasian country to be buried, according […]
Household appliance manufacturer Miele Austria has managed to improve its turnover for the third year in a row.Company boss Josef Vanicek said today (Thurs) that the firm – which is based in Wals near Salzburg – achieved a turnover of 190 million Euros in 2010. Vanicek said this was a seven per cent increase compared […]
The Austrian branch of fast food chain McDonald’s has said it will increase its prices.The company said today (Thurs) that the average price of its products which include whole meals like burgers with French fries but also wraps and coffee will increase by between one and 1.5 per cent this year.”There will be […]