Struggling computer games producer JoWooD Entertainment AG (JoWooD) has started looking for an investor.The Viennese company, which has been quoted on the Vienna Stock Exchange (WBAG) since 2000, said today (Thurs) its operative losses soared by 1.655 million Euros to 14.304 million Euros year on year in the first nine months of 2010.The firm […]
An Upper Austrian company has been assigned to build what will be the biggest building in Minsk, it emerged today (Weds).Habau Hoch- und Tiefbaugesellschaft m.b.H. (Habau) confirmed reports claiming it had been contracted to construct the 170-metre Minsk Tower.The company, which is based in the town of Perg, explained it planned to have started the […]
Office furniture specialist Bene AG has managed to reduce its losses.The company, which is based in the Lower Austrian town of Waidhofen an der Ybbs, said today (Weds) it suffered losses of 8.7 million Euros in the third quarter of the 2010/2011 business year, down by 100,000 Euros year on year.Benes turnover declined from 135 […]
A remorseful criminal who took part in a spectacular casino robbery has given himself up to police more than one year after the coup.Admir B. was member of a five-strong group who stole 47,000 Euros in cash from a casino in Graz in a robbery lasting just 30 seconds in November 2009.All four of the […]
One of Austrias leading energy providers is to get a new chairman as Burkhard Hofer announced he has decided to step down as head of EVNs executive board.The Lower Austrian company announced today (Weds) that the 66-year-old asked the supervisory board to release him from his position next month. EVN explained that its supervisory panel […]
An army sergant died when a boozed-up lorry driver ploughed into his vehicle in Carinthia this morning (Weds).The 49-year-old soldier from Rinkenberg in Carinthia was returning from a night-time military drill. He died shortly after the collision with the oncoming truck of severe injuries to his chest.The 43-year-old lorry driver from Griffen was found to […]
Police are investigating after a man died on the A8 Innkreis motorway in Upper Austria under mysterious circumstances.The elderly man, believed to be a 65-year-old Upper Austrian, was run down by a truck after running down a roadside embankment yesterday (Tues).It is matter of investigations why the man, who died instantly, ran onto the busy […]
No one was injured when a bus collided with a tram in Vienna yesterday (Tues).Viennese newspapers report today that a bus crashed into a tram in the citys Ottakring district around midday.None of the vehicles dozens of passengers were harmed in the accident which caused long tailbacks.One of the worst traffic accidents that occurred in […]
Almost every third woman who dies from breast cancer is aged between 50 and 69, new figures show.State agency Statistik Austria announced today (Tues) that 510 of the 1,594 women who passed away from breast cancer in Austria last year were members of the high risk group of people at the age from 50 to […]
A Styrian pensioner has been given a suspended jail term for stalking.Judges at the Criminal Court in Graz heard today (Tues) how the 62-year-old woman kept sending letters to a man for months.The 67-year-old reported the defendant to the police after she continuously tried to begin a relationship with him after they met in a […]