Archive for July, 2007
Vorarlbergs fittings manufacturer Blum has 360 trainees
July 27th, 2007 in Austrian BusinessThe fittings manufacturer Blum from Vorarlberg is popular. At the moment the company has 360 trainees. That’s the amount of employees of an enterprise in a middle position.
Not only apprentices like to go to the company of Julius Blum in the little town of Höchst, which is located close to the Swiss border. During this [...]
Gazprom shows interest in gas fired power Plant Mellach
July 27th, 2007 in Austrian EconomyThe gas-fired power plant in Mellach has a lot of admirers. Among them also the Russian Gazprom, but also OMV and Centrex are interested.
The chase around the supply of the gas-fired power plan Mellach has just started. And Gazprom is not the only one who might be interested in a deal.
Centrex Europe Energy & Gas [...]
Pension funds with higher earnings as provision funds for employees
July 23rd, 2007 in Austrian MoneyPension funds of companies have proven to be more high-yield than provision funds for employees in Austria.
Already 500.000 Austrians have acquired the right of a company pension. The assessment value capacity amounts 13 billions EUR.
This is much more as the volume of the provision funds for employees. Provision funds for employees have an assessment value [...]
Bundesschatz.at: Austria increases interest of its stocks
July 23rd, 2007 in Austrian Interest RateBundesschatz.at is the website of the stocks of the Republic Austria.
Now the Austrian Financial Minister increases the interest of the Bundesschatz stocks.
From a deposit of 100 EUR, you receive 3,7% interest rate for a bond at the minimum of one month.
By a very short period of bond, the stocks of the Republic Austria are in [...]
Debts and financial power of Upper Austrias municipalities
July 20th, 2007 in Austrian CreditThe municipality of Hinterstoder is on the top of the list of Upper Austrias highest in debt municipalities.
The indebtedness per head of Hinterstoder amounts 11.000 EUR. This is more than the double of Unterweitersdorf, which is the municipality in the second place.
The Upper Austrian municipality with the lowest debts is Mayrhofen im Innviertel. The village [...]
Austrian cement manufacturer Lafarge invests
July 17th, 2007 in Austrian InvestorsThe Austrian cement manufacturer Lafarge from the Austrian federal state of Styria invests, and rely more and more on green fuels.
The cement manufacturer “Lararge Perlmooser Zementwerk” in the Southern part of Styria, continues to extend its substitute fuel program.
The first project was a solvent plant which took a sum of 1,4 mio EUR. The project [...]
The story about real estate in Bad Gastein
July 12th, 2007 in Austrian Real EstatesThe centre of Bad Gastein, directly next to the bridge over the world known falls, looks desolate and cheerless.
It was a speculator from Vienna who bought all the real estates around the central square. No interesting people who wanted to buy his houses show up, and so the houses stay empty and decay from year [...]
1.000 EUR statutory minimum wage for 2009 in Austria
July 3rd, 2007 in GeneralYesterday the bosses of the social partners in Austria found an agreement of a 1.000 EUR monthly minimum wage in Austria.
20.000 employees in trade and industry as well as more than 10.000 in free professions are affected.
Christoph Leitl who is the president of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber was unsure if he should give his [...]
