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Rising Sales for Pfanner
The Austrian fruit juice producer achieves sales at its pre-crisis level. In 2010, sales amounted to € 235m after € 225m in 2009.
March 19, 2011
Good Prospects for Kärntner Sparkasse
The regional bank was able to improve its operational result significantly last year. But Slovenian results still hinder profits.
March 16, 2011
WKÖ: "Clear Commitment to the Brenner Base Tunnel is Needed”
The chairman of the Austrian Economic Chamber considers the tunnel between Italy and Austria as a pioneering infrastructure project.
February 23, 2011
Southstream: Gazprom-OMV Cooperation
OMV and Russian Gazprom will work together on the construction of the Austrian part of the Southstream pipeline.
February 22, 2011
Brenner Tunnel: ÖBB will not pay
The Austrian Federal Railways will only accept to build the tunnel for € 10bn, if the costs are passed on to the state.
February 22, 2011
Spar: Moderate Growth in Market Share
The Austrian food trade group recorded a sales increase of 4.4% in the previous year. Growth in the CEE region turns out weaker.
February 18, 2011
Verbund Intends to Grow in Italy and France
The Austrian-Italian joint venture Sorgenia is to expand its commitment to renewable energies in Italy and France.
February 9, 2011
Rising Sales at Internorm
The Upper Austrian window manufacturer increased its sales by 2% in 2010. Despite domestic sales falling, exports are growing all the better.
February 3, 2011
New Sales Record for Novomatic
The Austrian gaming machine manufacturer considers the industry "on the upswing again". Casino licenses contributed to the result.
January 28, 2011
Casinos Austria Expands to Italy
Loss-making Casinos Austria hopes for a new and lucrative market in Italy.
January 25, 2011
Change in Leadership at Bank Austria
Paolo Fiorentino, has been elected as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Bank Austria. Francesco Giordano will act as future Chief Financial Officer.
January 22, 2011
Generali Austria: Optimism for 2011
The Italian insurance company shows itself satisfied with the previous year's results in Austria and looks forward to 2011 with confidence.
January 21, 2011
Recovery is in Sight for Keba
The Austrian automation manufacturer regains its pre-crisis levels, in particular through exports to growth markets.
January 18, 2011
Slight Decline in Furniture Exports
Austria's furniture industry shows itself cautiously optimistic despite a slight decline in exports and expects production increases.
January 18, 2011
New Perspectives for Nabucco
The European Commission wants to commit Azerbaijan to supply gas to Europe. This is expected to be done via the Nabucco pipeline.
January 14, 2011
Polytec Sells Italian Subsidiary
Today Polytec Holding AG signed an agreement to sell 100% of the shares of Polytec Composites Italia (PCI) to Industrie Metallvakuum Ranger S.p.a. (IMR).
December 29, 2010
Italian Support for Nabucco
The Italian power company Edison cooperates with the Nabucco gas pipeline project. The aim is to create synergies.
December 28, 2010
Polbank: Intesa Bids, Raiffeisen Still in the Race
In the battle for the takeover of the Polish private bank Polbank, the Italian Intesa has already placed a bid. No comments are being made by Raiffeisen.
November 25, 2010
Risk Exposure of Austrian Banks: € 32 billion
The volume that Austria's banks hold at the moment in the altogether not risk-free PIIGS countries (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece), is € 32 billion.
November 25, 2010
UniCredit: Expansion to the Czech Republic, Poland and Turkey
UniCredit’s subsidiary Bank Austria functions as an Eastern Europe Holding. 40% of the net income of the group comes from the region by now.
November 19, 2010
UniCredit CEO Ghizzoni: Counting on eastern growth
The eastern business should be expanded, says Ghizzoni, CEO of the parent company of Bank Austria.
November 10, 2010
Trichet Succession: The Austrian Nowotny Has Chances As Outsider
The European Central Bank (ECB) will appoint a new president in November 2011. The favorites are the German Axel Weber and the Italian Mario Draghi. But Nowotny has outsider chances.
November 5, 2010
EU Funds to Finance Brenner Tunnel until 2015
The European Commission has extended its partial financing commitment for the Brenner tunnel. However, appropriate measures must be taken soon. Deliberations are still underway at present.
October 28, 2010
Verbund´s Subsidiary Sorgenia Achieved Higher Profits
Net income climbed during the first three quarters to 57.6 million euros
October 19, 2010
Zumtobel Closes Loss-Making Plant Space Cannon in Italy
Zumtobel, the shareholder of the company Space Cannon VH SRL, based in Fubine (Piedmont), a specialist in façade and event lighting and a member of the Zumtobel Group, has filed for liquidation.
October 7, 2010
UniCredit SpA has appointed Federico Ghizzoni as its new chief executive
Italy's biggest bank UniCredit SpA named central and eastern European head Federico Ghizzoni its chief executive as expected on Thursday and underscored its commitment to an international role.
October 1, 2010
UniCredit: Andrea Orcel is Possible Successor to Profumo
Andrea Orcel, chief executive of the Global Banking and Markets division of Bank of America Merrill Lynch is rumored to be the favorite in the race to succeed the retiring UniCredit CEO Alessandro Profumo.
September 24, 2010
UniCredit's Profumo proposes 20-billion rescue fund
Head of Bank-Austria parent UniCredit, Alessandro Profumo, has announced his ambitions for a privately financed € 20 billion heavy rescue fund for troubled European banks.
July 12, 2010
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