Austrian Construction Supply Industry Stagnates

IndustrialsBasic Resources ♦ Published: March 3, 2011; 00:33 ♦ (Vindobona)

After a sales decrease of 11% in the crisis year 2009, total sales stagnates at € 3.2bn. The number of employees falls by 3.1%.

Austrian Construction Supply Industry Stagnates / Picture: © Vindobona.org

After sales declined by 11% in 2009, the building materials industry suffered a new decline of 0.05% with total sales stabilized at € 3.2bn in 2010. With these figures, the industry is at the sales level of 2005. The number of employees decreased, compared with the previous year, by 3.1% to 14,328 people (-12% since the crisis erupted in 2008).

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