Two of Austria’s leading construction companies had good and bad news for shareholders in the past few days. Strabag SE, the country’s busiest building firm, said it achieved a turnover of 13.7 billion Euros in 2011. This is an improvement of 11 per cent compared to 2010. The company’s earnings before interest and taxes (Ebit) […]
A Polish travel company has revealed plans to offer cut-price coach trips to Austria.PolskiBus announced it will launch a new budget travelling programme connecting 16 cities within the country later this month. The company added that it aimed at expanding the service across the continent. Polish newspapers report today (Fri) that Austrian capital Vienna, the […]
Strabag SE has said it is “cautiously optimistic” for the remainder of this year due to a “construction boom” in Poland.The Vienna-based company Austrias leading building firm announced today (Thurs) it expected to benefit from the strong economy in Poland and positive developments in Germany.Strabag explained it experienced a strong increase of assignments […]
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 […]
Real estate developer Warimpex Finanz- und Beteiligungs AG (Warimpex) had a good 2010, business figures presented today (Fri) confirm.The firms turnover climbed by 20 per cent to 102.7 million Euros year on year while earnings before interest and taxes (Ebit) were 24.4 million Euros after a loss of 71.8 million Euros in 2009.Company boss Franz […]
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 woman tagged as Austrias oldest murderer will not be extradited after she fled to Poland, the country of her birth, it has emerged.Bronislawa Jarosz was sentenced to 18 years in prison for killing her neighbour in 2007. The Polish-born woman stole jewellery and four bottles of wine after beating Austrian Maria P., 78, to […]
Viennese technology company Kapsch TrafficCom AG (Kapsch) has bagged a major assignment in Poland.The road toll systems specialist said today (Thurs) it will set up a digital radio system on 84 kilometres of railway network in the country. The company, which is headed by Georg Kapsch, added the contract was worth 11 million Euros.Kapsch official […]
A consortium of three Strabag SE subsidiaries has been contracted to build a bridge in a city in northern Poland, it was announced today (Mon).Strabag said the consortium which features Strabag Sp.z o.o. Poland, Strabag AG Austria and Hermann Kirchner Polska Sp. z o.o. will build a bridge in Torun worth 139 million Euros.The […]
Peoples Party (ÖVP) Environment Minister Nikolaus Berlakovich has unveiled plans to set up a country-wide egg-farming database following a recent business scandal.Berlakovichs initiative comes after it emerged that a Styrian company imported substandard eggs from Poland and Hungary to sell them as local products. Recent reports have it that Rohr an der Raab-based Goldmund sold […]