Spar Austria has announced that it has managed to increase its market share.The Salzburg-based firm said today (Thurs) that its share in the Austrian supermarket business rose by one per cent to 29.5 per cent last year thanks to a 4.5 per cent turnover jump to 5.15 billion Euros.Spar Austria is the second-biggest foodstuff shop […]
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An Upper Austrian producer of solar collectors has gone bust, it emerged today (Mon).The Austrian Creditors Protection Association (KSV 1870) said Eberstalzell-based Xolar had debts of nearly four million Euros. KSV 1870 added that 74 employees and 100 creditors were affected.Xolar was taken over by Upper Austrian Greiner Group (Greiner Technology & Innovation, GTI) last […]
Shops raked in more last year
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The turnover of Austrias retail trade soared by nearly three per cent year on year in 2010, it has been announced.Researcher KMU Forschung Austria said today (Tues) that shops in the country generated an overall turnover from sales of 50.1 billion Euros after taxes, 2.7 per cent more than in 2009. It pointed out that […]
Holiday bonus for social work at DM
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Employees of a leading drugstore chain will get an extra day off if they use it for community work, it has been reported.DM Austria, the Austrian branch of German cosmetic products and drugstore chain DM, said today (Tues) that its 5,400 staff will be granted an additional paid day off work if they use the […]
T-Mobile Austria and DDB Tribal team up
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T-Mobile Austria has hired a new marketing agency.The Viennese company said today (Tues) that it will cooperate with DDB Tribal as of 1 March after a seven-year partnership with Publicis.DDB Tribal also works for T-Mobile Germany, Viennese brewery Ottakringer and German consumer products maker Henkel.Alexander Rosenegger of DDB Tribal in Vienna said: “Together we will […]
Austrian GDP edges up
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The Austrian economy is continuing to recover from effects of the global downturn, new figures confirm.The Institute for Economic Research (WIFO), a Viennese think tank, said today (Tues) that the Austrian gross domestic product (GDP) rose by 0.6 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2010 compared to the previous quarter of the same year.WIFO […]
Naturalisation figures drop further
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Austria continues to hand out fewer citizenships to immigrants, figures presented by Statistik Austria today (Mon) show.The statistic agency announced 6,190 people became Austrian citizens last year, down by 22.5 per cent and fewer than ever since the beginning of the 1970s.More than five in 10 new Austrians came to the country from Bosnia-Herzegovina […]
Eight in 10 cancer kids cured
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Nearly 80 per cent of children suffering from cancer in Austria nowadays make a full recovery, it has been announced.An Austrian Childrens Cancer Charity (Österreichische Kinder-Krebs-Hilfe) said today (Mon) that 80 per cent of Austrian kids suffering from different forms of the disease 40 year ago died. The statistic has now been turned on its […]
A besotted man was arrested after he threatened his to kill his love interest when he was rejected last night (Sun/Mon).The woman invited the 36-year-old to dinner at her home in Linz, Upper Austria, last night (Sun) after they had been dating for some time. When the 29-year-old eventually told the lovestruck man that she […]
Brit skier ‘treated like a criminal’
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A skier from the United Kingdom who collided with an Austrian politician has claimed police treated him “like a criminal”.Andy Clough from Leeds did not sustain any injuries in the incident in the Schmittenhöhe ski resort, Salzburg, involving Peoples Party (ÖVP) Member of the European Parliament Othmar Karas last Monday.Karas, who fractured his lumber vertebra […]