понеделник, 25 юни 2012 г.

Austrian Economic News - Week 18 - 24 Jun

Monday
Technology group Andritz announced on Monday evening it plans to issue a corporate bond worth up to EUR 350m. The bond, whose issue needs the approval of the Financial market authority (FMA), will have a maturity of seven years. 

Tuesday

Moody's kept its ratings on the covered bonds of Bank Austria and Hypo Niederösterreich at their highest level of Aaa.
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TeleTrader Software plans to operate as a limited liability company or GmbH in the future. The move will result in the delisting of the firm from the Vienna Stock Exchange.
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Car parts supplier HTI High Tech Industries AG received the green light by its shareholders to raise its share capital by up to EUR 22m. The increase may take place in the next five years.

Wednesday

Office furniture maker Bene said today it booked EBIT of EUR 0.3m for the first quarter of its fiscal year, compared with a loss of EUR 1.3m a year ago. Sales increased 8% to EUR 47.8m due to stabilisation of the company's core markets. Bene projects a positive result for fiscal 2012/13 as a whole.
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Industrial group Frauenthal plans to grow via acquisitions in the next one year. The company has EUR 80m at its disposal after the recent sale of its catalyst division. Frauenthal, however, does not expect to achieve the same result in 2012 as in 2011.
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UNIQA said it will buy out the minority stakes of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in its subsidiaries in Poland, Hungary and Croatia. The deal price was not revealed. The purchase will take place in the forthcoming weeks.
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Oil and gas group OMV revealed several asset deals in the UK, which will allow the company to focus more on its business to the west of the Shetland area.  

Thursday

Oil group OMV announced it had entered into an upstream joint venture with German Wintershall and the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC). The joint venture will evaluate the potential of a field in Shuwaihat, in the UAE.
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Siemens has received an order for the modernization of the coupled tandem pickling line of steel maker Voestalpine in Linz. The order value stands in the two-digit million euro field.
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Auto parts supplier HTI projects a pre-tax profit of about EUR 1m for 2012, compared to a loss of EUR 2.3m a year earlier. Sales are seen at least matching the 2011 level of EUR 207m.   

Friday

The US subsidiary of aviation and car parts supplier Pankl said it had received a new order from US aircraft maker Sikorsky Aircraft. The value of the multi-year order stands at USD 20m.
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Verbund, Austria's leading power utility, launched officially its 838-MW combined cycle gas turbine plant in Mellach, near Graz. The plant will help the saving of two million tonnes of CO2 per year.



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