INVESTMENTS JUNE 2016 35 ging result validates our course for international positioning, but we also see it as our mission to further expand our special international activities for this business location. New international companies are important for Vienna. They strengthen the entire region and contribute signifi cantly to Austria’s success as a business location. As the capital city, Vienna carries even more responsibility than the other provinces, and this positive trend shows that we assume this responsibility completely,” says Renate Brauner, the City Councillor for Economy. When compared to the other provinces, Vienna attracted fi ve times as many international companies than runner-up Carinthia, which reported 36 new companies according to the statistics of the Ministry of Economics, followed by Salzburg (25), Tyrol (20), and Lower Austria (18). These new businesses generate around 1,450 new jobs and investments of approximately 630 million euros. A closer look at the countries they originate from shows that Germany is once again in the lead with 49 new businesses. Companies from Hungary (18) and Italy (14) are particularly interested in Vienna as a business location. The Vienna Business Agency’s international team presents Vienna as a business location all around the world to highlight the capital’s advantages for companies. Additionally, the Vienna Business Agency is the fi rst contact for companies and provides consulting services and assistance as well as individual solutions for launching businesses. Over the last year, they held presentations in 20 countries and 37 cities at a broad range of events. The team also represented Vienna at eight national and international trade fairs, including the World Investment Summit in Hainan (China), CeBIT in Hanover (Germany) as well as at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona (Spain). “Bringing businesses to Austria is only the fi rst step, however. Subsequently, we have to strongly support international companies in Vienna to establish them at this location and help them to fully realise their growth potential,” says Gerhard Hirczi, Managing Director of the Vienna Business Agency. Examples for this are companies such as Boehringer Ingelheim, Lukoil, Henkel as well as Huawei. A lucrative location: For international investors it goes without saying that they utilise this business location’s top know-how and quality, high-level technology, state-of-the-art infrastructures as well as its proximity to Southeast and Eastern Europe.
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