Leading supermarket company Rewe International AG said its turnover in Austria soared at over seven billion Euros last year.The company, which handles the Austrian business activities of the German Rewe Group, said today (Fri) that it achieved a turnover of 7.04 billion Euros in 2010, up by 1.83 per cent compared to 2009.Rewe International said […]
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PMI tops Austrian tobacco sale chart
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Philip Morris International (PMI) is the new number one on the Austrian tobacco products market, as figures presented today (Fri) show.Research group AC Nielsen said the American company held a 35.5 per cent share in Austria, while 34.5 per cent of cigarettes sold in the country in 2010 were products of Japan Tobacco International (JTI). […]
Number of T-Mobile Austria clients rises
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T-Mobile Austria managed to attract almost 10 per cent more new customers last year.The Vienna-based company said today (Fri) it had 3.78 million clients in 2010, up by 9.6 per cent year on year. T-Mobile Austria however also announced that its turnover declined by five per cent to 983 million Euros.T-Mobile is the number one […]
Erste Bank eyes 2011 state aid repayment
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Erste Bank, one of Austrias leading financial institutes, has said it planned to pay back the state aid it has received over the past two years in the coming months.The Vienna-based bank, which is active in the whole Central and Eastern which (CEE) region, announced today (Fri) it intended to return the 1.2 billion Euros […]
Coalition cuts back travel costs
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The Austrian government has reduced its travel expenses.A parliamentary enquiry by the Freedom Party (FPÖ) showed yesterday (Thurs) that the Social Democrats (SPÖ) and the Peoples Party (ÖVP) spent 2.2 million Euros on 220 trips abroad last year, less than in 2004 and 2008. Figures for 2009 have not been disclosed since no parliamentary faction […]
Warimpex succeeds across Europe
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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 […]
More neo-Nazi offences reported
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The frequency of National Socialist activities is on the rise, new figures show.The justice ministry said yesterday (Thurs) that 741 people were reported for spreading neo-Nazi propaganda or engaging in crimes with a far-right political background last year, up by 39.5 per cent to 2009 when 513 such cases were dealt with by the police […]
BWT presents bright 2010 figures
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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 […]
BCR board ‘irresponsible’, say unionists
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Hundreds of staff of Erste Banks Romanian subsidiary took to the streets in Bucharest today (Fri) to demonstrate against the loss of certain rights in a controversial new labour contract proposal.Banca Comerciala Romana (BCR) unionists who represent 75 per cent of the banks employees accuse the financial institutes executive board of having an […]
A Serbian man has been arrested for threatening to throw his son out of a window.Special police forces entered the third-floor flat of Sasa J. in Vienna-Landstraße on Wednesday after the man told his wife Alisa he would hurl their two-year-old son Christian out of the window before killing himself.Police said today (Fri) that the […]