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 […]
Water processing and preparation company Best Water Technology AG (BWT) said today (Fri) that its turnover jumped by 15 per cent to 460.7 million Euros year on year in 2010.The company, which is based in the Upper Austrian town of Mondsee, added its earnings before interest and taxes (Ebit) improved by 17.4 per cent to […]
A Romanian politician is to undergo pancreas surgery in Austria, it has been reported.Online newspaper Romanian Times reports today (Thurs) that Democratic Liberal Party MP Teo Trandafir needs to go under the knife at Viennas General Hospital (AKH).The 42-year-old MPs condition has worsened in the past days, according to the report. Trandafir a former […]
Viennese media have claimed there is much speculation surrounding the death of an ambassador at the age of just 42.Fuad Ismayilov – the Azerbaijani ambassador to Austria – died of cardiac failure, according to an official statement. His body will be transferred to Baku, the federal capital of the Eurasian country to be buried, according […]
Household appliance manufacturer Miele Austria has managed to improve its turnover for the third year in a row.Company boss Josef Vanicek said today (Thurs) that the firm – which is based in Wals near Salzburg – achieved a turnover of 190 million Euros in 2010. Vanicek said this was a seven per cent increase compared […]
Police in the Austrian-Italian border region are investigating after finding cigarettes worth 7,000 Euros in an abandoned car.Officials in the southern province of Carinthia said today (Tues) that police officers discovered 248 cartons of cigarettes in a vehicle parked at a motorway rest stop car park near Völkermarkt.The tobacco products were confiscated after a check […]
Wienerberger AG the worlds biggest producer of bricks is back in the black.The firm headed by Heimo Scheuch said today (Tues) that it had earnings before interest and taxes (Ebit) of 10.7 million Euros last year after a loss of 258.1 million Euros in 2009. Wienerberger added that its turnover declined by four […]
Criminals may have escaped with thousands of Euros after blasting a cash terminal in Vienna-Favoriten this morning (Mon).Authorities in the federal capital said today that a woman living nearby called the police after she was woken up by the blast at around 3am. Policemen found the entrance of the Raiffeisen branch smashed and the cash […]
Amstettens Social Democratic (SPÖ) Mayor Herbert Katzengruber has branded reports that teens are regularly going gown into the cellar dungeon built by Josef Fritzl “idiotic lies”.Referring to articles in British newspapers, Katzengruber said today (Fri): “Can our society sink to any further depths? In which world are we living? Im deeply shocked.”The politician said the […]