The owners of the popular sweet manufacturers Schwedenbomben recently rescued from insolvency after it was sold to Heidi Chocolat S.A. are planning to invest heavily to allow for expansion into new markets. The new owners say that the expansion plans mean that they are hoping to increase production by 70% and that means that even […]
Austrian police are hunting a sweet-toothed lorry driver who drove up to a factory at Bludenz in Vorarlberg and collected 18 tonnes of chocolate and then vanished. According to the logistics firm that charted the lorry from Chechnya the load had been collected by a lorry driver using fake paperwork to loaded 33 pallets of […]
Detectives investigating the horrific deaths of two men slowly cooked to death in a massive oven say that the pair had tried to rip the insulation off the wall of the oven and clawed at the door in a desperate bid to get free. The tragedy happened when the automatic door of the oven at […]
By Rebecca Musgrave Bibiana Binstorfer and Caroline Aitken have taken on a truly noble challenge: Introducing the humble pie to Austria. And by both the sounds and the looks of it, on your average Tuesday afternoon, they are succeeding. Almost everywhere in the world that the British have been to, they appear to have left […]
Fifty million Euros will be invested in General Motors’ (GM) Powertrain factory in Vienna next year, it has emerged. Michael Lewald, who has managed the facility since August, told the Kurier today (Weds) the plan was to spend 50 million Euros in investments in 2012 after 70 million Euros this year. “I will ensure that […]
An Austrian has been chosen to design a mint marking the 10th anniversary of the introduction of the Euro as the European currency. Manfred Andexlinger’s blueprints came first in an online poll with an approval of 34 per cent of participants. The Austrian designer beat 800 competitors to create the special two-Euro coin which will […]
The first ever Aston Martin manufactured outside Great Britain will be produced at the carmakers headquarter facility from next year, it has emerged.The British company announced yesterday (Tues) it decided not to continue the cooperation with Austrian-Canadian company Magna International (Magna). The firm which was founded by Austrian businessman Frank Stronach in the 1950s […]
A worker suffered severe injuries when he plunged into a container of boiling water.The 39-year-old man from Kirchbach wanted to empty the cooling water basin at the Marienhütte steel factory in Graz, Styria, when he slipped and fell into it. He sustained second degree burns all over his body.The workers was transferred to the citys […]
Heavy metal legends Fear Factory will perform in Vienna this December, it has emerged.Arena concert hall bosses announced today (Thurs) that the four-member band from Los Angeles, USA, will give a concert at the venue on 9 December.Fear Factory, who have released eight full-length studio albums since 1992, are considered being one of the most […]
The number of Austrians dying abroad soared in 2009, it has been announced.Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal said today (Tues) 1,071 Austrian citizens died while abroad last year, up by around 10 per cent compared to 2008.”The number of Austrians who died in other countries was 959 in 2008,” the spokesman for the foreign affairs ministry said. He […]