All 45 jobs at a bankrupt Salzburg wood firm are safe, it emerged today (Weds).Liquidator Konrad Ferner said he told the 45 Salzburger Holzindustrie employees yesterday that they will all keep their jobs after he managed to find an investor willing to take over the broke company.Ferner said the Carinthian wood-processing firm Johann Weinberger won […]
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bwin eyes South America
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Austrian online gaming platform bwin has revealed plans to expand to South America.Company chief Norbert Teufelberger said in an interview today (Tues) that he saw more growth potential in America than in Europe.”The plan is to do business in two to four South American countries within one or two years,” he explained.The bwin head also […]
EN-TECH goes bust
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Carinthian energy technology firm EN-TECH filed for bankruptcy at the regional court of Klagenfurt today (Mon).The Creditors Protection Association of 1870 (KSV 1870) announced the company which is headquartered in St. Veit an der Glan had debts of 1.79 million Euros. Thirteen employees and 120 creditors are affected.EN-TECH bosses said business suffered after […]
The economic crisis is still affecting Austrian companies as the number of newly registered lorries dropped in the first quarter of this year.Official figures released today (Mon) show that 5.6 per cent less lorries were registered during the first three months of this year compared to the same period in 2009.The number of registered articulated […]
Almost 1,500 traffic accidents happened over the Easter weekend in Lower Austria.Officials however said today (Mon) the holidays had been “relatively quiet” as far as the number of car crashes was concerned.Stefan Spielbichler, a spokesman for rescue officials in Austrias biggest province, said no one had died on Lower Austrian roads since Good Friday.The Federal […]
Majority says Pope should resign
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A vast majority of Austrians think the Pope should step down were there a rule that enabled him to do so.Vienna-based public opinion research agency Karmasin found that 57 per cent of Austrians are of the opinion Pope Benedict XVI should resign amid sex abuse incidents at Catholic institutions across Europe.Only 34 per cent of […]
Companies flocking to Lower Austria
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The number of companies settling in the province of Lower Austria is on the rise, it has been announced.Provincial councillor Petra Bohuslav said today (Thurs) 30 companies settled or expanded in Lower Austria in the first quarter of this year. The Peoples Party (ÖVP) politician said this number was a 50 per cent year on […]
Vienna Archbishop Christoph Cardinal Schönborn will preside at a “day of repentance” service today (Weds) in the wake of revelations of numerous cases of violence and sexual abuse by members of the Catholic clergy.His office said yesterday that the service at 7pm at Viennas St. Stephens Cathedral would constitute “an acknowledgement of guilt in the […]
There have been 566 reports of various kinds of abuse by clergy at the Catholic Churchs ombudsmans offices this year, it was reported today (Tues).Vienna archdiocese has had the highest number, 174, followed by Innsbruck diocese with 115. More than half of them can no longer be prosecuted because of the statute of limitations.Cases of […]
There were serious deficiencies in food controls last year in Styria, the free Styrian weekly newspaper Woche claimed yesterday (Tues).Woches report comes in the wake of news about Styrian firm Prolactal, which produced the deadly Quargel cheese last year resulting in the deaths of 10 people in Austria and Germany.Woche said lack of personnel had […]