Lenzing turnover skyrockets

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Cellulose fibre maker Lenzing AG raked in more than one billion Euros in the first nine months of this year.The company said today (Tues) that its turnover soared from 885 million Euros in the first three quarters of 2009 to 1.29 billion Euros in the same time period of this year.The firm, which is based […]

Salzburg set to spend €4mn on winter marketing

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Salzburg will invest almost four million Euros in tourism marketing initiatives for the upcoming winter season, it has been announced.Leo Bauernberger, head of the province’s tourism board, said today (Tues) almost four million Euros will be spent on various marketing and advertising activities in Austria and abroad as the winter sport season approaches.Salzburg’s tourism councillor […]

Vienna tourism reports record overnight figures

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The Viennese tourism industry seems to be over the worst of the economic downturn as it had its best first six months of the year in history.Vienna tourism chief Norbert Kettner revealed today (Thurs) that 4.8 million overnights occurred between January and June of this year, up by 12.9 per cent year on year and […]

Mitterlehner Pushing Austrian Exports Offensive

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There have been 1,400 new Austrian exporters since the inception of “Go International” initiative in April 2009.The figures were revealed by Dr Christoph Leitl and Reinhold Mitterlehnerfrom the Austrian Ministry of the Economy and the Austrian Federal Chamber of Commerce (WKÖ) at the opening of the 8th Austrian Export Day of the Austrian Foreign Trade […]