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Schieder wants ban on short selling
The Financial Secretary sees Germany as role model.
June 4, 2010
Presentation of local top companies to institutional investors in New York
A roadshow will be presented in New York for the first time a cooperation between Crédit Agricole Cheuvreux and the Vienna Stock Exchange.
June 4, 2010
EVN scores a gas deal in Croatia
A new gas pipeline built by Austrian energy provider EVN will provide thousands of Croats.
June 2, 2010
STRABAG wins new large orders worth € 156 million in Romania and Abu Dhabi
STRABAG, Central and Eastern Europe’s largest construction company, has won two new large orders in Romania and Abu Dhabi.
June 2, 2010
Voestalpine - Difficult business year 2009/10 successfully mastered
Due to the extremely challenging economic circumstances, in the business year 2009/10, the voestalpine Group incurred a significant decline in revenue and operating result compared to the previous year.
June 1, 2010
Bösendorfer hopes for profit from 2012
With the return to profitability Bösendorfer will again produce 300 grand piano annually in Wiener Neustadt.
June 1, 2010
Bene AG - Change in the composition of the management board
Roland Marouschek has resigned his mandate as a Member of the Management Board and Director of Sales and Human Resources.
June 1, 2010
C.A.T. Oil AG further improves profitability and earnings under abnormally harsh weather conditions
C.A.T. oil AG (O2C, ISIN: AT0000A00Y78), one of the leading providers of oil and gas field services in Russia and Kazakhstan, today has published its results for the first quarter 2010.
May 31, 2010
Lauda wants to sue Republic of Austria
FlyNiki boss Niki Lauda wants to sue the aeronautical authorities of the Republic of Austria for damages because of the loss for his airline due to the bans as a result of the Icelandic ash cloud.
May 31, 2010
Banks are approaching reunification
Raiffeisen International, the listed Ostbankenholding of the sector, has ended the first quarter of 2010 better than expected.
May 31, 2010
Chief Justice - AvW to pay investors
The Supreme Court declined a revision. The ruling is regarded as indicative of the current 400 million euro investment scandal.
May 31, 2010
Telekom Austria approves dividend of 75 cents
Austria's telecommunications service provider Telekom Austria decided at its regular meeting today, a dividend of 0.75 euros for 2009.
May 28, 2010
Uniqa - First quarter with more profit and premium income
The listed company Uniqa insurance managed to increase first quarter profit and premium income.
May 28, 2010
Hypo-Alpe-Adria - Carinthia and Bayern to co-operate
For the first time in the history of judicial prosecution, Munich and Klagenfurt agreed to a formation of a "joint investigation team ", in the case of Hypo-Alpe-Adria-scandal.
May 28, 2010
Austrian federal government is now sole owner of the Federal Reserve
The price fluctuations in international currency markets helped the Austrian National Bank (OeNB) in 2009 to a strong profit increase.
May 27, 2010
Lufthansa and AUA launch cargo subsidiary in Vienna
The two subsidiaries, Lufthansa Cargo, Lufthansa and Austrian Airlines (AUA) have established a joint cargo subsidiary in Vienna.
May 27, 2010
Telekom Austria AG - Results for the First Quarter 2010
Revenues decline by 5.9% to EUR 1,126.0 million primarily driven by lower revenues in domestic operations and Bulgaria.
May 27, 2010
New FMA standards against money laundering
In the future, all transfers in Austria can be traced back; donations to certified organizations and payments of up to € 1000 are exempt.
May 27, 2010
Warimpex successfully completes capital increase
In a difficult environment on the financial markets Warimpex successfully completed its capital increase by placing 14,400,001 new ordinary shares, representing approximately 36% of the existing share capital.
May 27, 2010
AGM of C-QUADRAT Investment AG
C-QUADRAT Investment AG achieved a significant year-on-year increase in its consolidated net profit for the year and looks back on a successful financial year 2009.
May 27, 2010
BWT AG - AGM agrees on all items of the agenda
The AGM of BWT Aktiengesellschaft passed all items of the agenda. The dividend was raised to EUR 0.40 per share after EUR 0.38 last year and will be discounted on May 31st and paid on June 2nd.
May 26, 2010
SW Umwelttechnik - Quarter 1 results
Quarter 1 turnover reached the same level as that of the previous year even though it was a severe and snowy winter - the result was noticeably improved due to the instigated cost saving measures and focusing on locally financed projects.
May 26, 2010
Strabag to team up with Lafarage
Strabag boss Hans Peter Haselsteiner said today his company wanted to protect itself from volatile cement market prices as the firm is set to cooperate with the cement production’s world market leader.
May 26, 2010
Balda AG extends supervisory board
At the 11th general annual meeting the shareholders of the specialist in plastics Balda consistently approved the proposals of the company´s board of directors by a clear majority despite critical voices from shareholders.
May 25, 2010
Lafarge and Strabag to create a common company in cement in CEE
Lafarge, the world leader in building materials, and STRABAG, Central and Eastern Europe´s largest construction company, are combining their cement activities in several countries of Central Europe.
May 25, 2010
Andritz receives further major orders from stainless steel producers in China
International technology Group Andritz has received orders with a total value of about 50 MEUR from two stainless steel producers in China.
May 25, 2010
Siemens VAI Expands in China and India
Upper Austrian Siemens VAI wants to radically expand its activities in China and India.
May 25, 2010
ÖBB (Austrian Nationalised Railway) - Bures: Save three billion €
Infrastructure Minister Doris Bures announced structural adjustments of various railway projects. As for the Brenner Base Tunnel, long-term financing is difficult to secure.
May 25, 2010
Austrian Airlines expands long-haul capacity
Austrian Airlines is expanding the long-haul capacity in its 2010/2011 Winter Schedule.
May 21, 2010
CEE oil & gas - MOL releases Q1 2010 financial results
The Hungarian-based MOL, one of the largest integrated oil and gas companies in Central and Eastern Europe, today posted its Q1 2010 unaudited financial results.
May 21, 2010
Manfred Url succeeds Erich Rainbacher as CEO of Raiffeisen Bausparkasse
Manfred Url succeeds Erich Rainbacher as CEO of Raiffeisen Bausparkasse, Johannes Schuster joins the board of RZB.
May 21, 2010
Sberbank partially repays subordinated loan to the Central Bank, positive signal to creditors
Sberbank, the largest bank in Russia and CIS, announced that it had redeemed the first RUB 200 bn tranche of the RUB 500 bn subordinated loan from the Central Bank of Russia.
May 21, 2010
Sparkassen Immobilien AG - Results of AGM
Stock exchange-listed Sparkassen Immobilien AG announces that the 75% majority required for the approval of the resolution in agenda item 7 with respect to the rights of participating certificates to conversion into ordinary shares was not achieved.
May 21, 2010
Immofinanz makes a hop – soon more shares on the market
Despite the announcement that in the coming months 55 million shares will be placed on the market, the share Immofinanz responded with an increase to the agreement with Constantia BV.
May 21, 2010
Solo attempt at transaction tax is possible says Chamber of Labour
"At purchase of every sausage roll a value-added tax is due, then why don’t financial speculators have to pay no sales tax for market transactions?
May 21, 2010
Austrian Post at a glance
The market environment faced by Austrian Post in the first quarter of 2010 continued to be difficult. Electronic substitution of letters is ongoing, as expected, whereas the advertising market is slowly improving.
May 20, 2010
Sparkassen Immobilien AG starts 2010 with a strong first quarter
Stock exchange-listed Sparkassen Immobilien AG has started the financial year 2010 with a strong first quarter: the major financial indicators have improved significantly compared with the same period last year.
May 20, 2010
Vienna Insurance Group in the first quarter of 2010 - Best first quarter in the corporate history
In the first quarter of 2010, Vienna Insurance Group reported a total of premiums written of EUR 2.53 billion.
May 20, 2010
OMV to retreat from Russia
Austrian mineral oil company OMV wants to focus on Asia and therefore completely retreats its activity from Russia.
May 20, 2010
Austrian Post with a 33.4 million profit in first quarter
The total revenue decreased by 1.6 per cent to €585.6m. Compared to last year 912 workers were fired. Future developments are hindered by difficult market situations.
May 20, 2010
Welcome Air to expand its flight network
According to the Austrian Times, Tyrolean airline Welcome Air announced today that it would expand its flight network by autumn this year.
May 19, 2010
Tiger Lacke to enlarge production capacity in China
According to the Austrian Times, upper Austrian firm Tiger Lacke has announced it will increase its production capacity from 10,000 to 15,000 tonnes of powder lacquer annually near Shanghai.
May 19, 2010
CEESEG - Institutional Investors’ Demand Increasing Again
The institutional investors’ demand for the companies listed on the member exchanges of CEESEG is growing again after the difficult market situation following the financial crisis.
May 19, 2010
Bene AG - Sales decline for Bene in the financial year 2009/10
In a very challenging economic environment and after an impressive development in prior years, the Bene Group had to record significant declines in sales and earnings figures in the financial year 2009/10.
May 19, 2010
Telekom and Mobilkom’s staff representatives prefer a fusion - „Together we’re strong”
To allow for a better representation of employees staff representatives of Mobilkom and Telekom agreed to form a demonstrative collusion.
May 19, 2010
Three Austrian firms amongst the top hundred Red Herring finalists
Three Austrian firms are amongst the top finalists fort his year’s „Red Herring Europe award“: Flimmit, Mobilizy and Nabriva Therapeutics Inc.
May 19, 2010
China’s minister of economic affairs visiting Vienna
Chen Deming, Chinese minister of economic affairs signed contracts worth of $900m. President Heinz Fischer and Reinhold Mitterlehner (Austrian minister of economic affairs) he was accompanied by a delegation of 120 advisors.
May 19, 2010
Alfred Gusenbauer will be Strabag's chief of supervisory board
The former SPÖ Chancellor succeeds Waldemar Jud as head of the supervisory board of Strabag.
May 18, 2010
Intercell AG - Hospital bug vaccine delayed
According to an announcement by Zoe Schneeweiss and Namoi Kresge (Bloomberg) Intercell AG fell the most in two weeks in Vienna, after stating that a vaccine against a deadly hospital bug may be delayed to the first or second quarter of 2011.
May 18, 2010
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