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Austria
Business Location Austria
Peter Ch. Löschl
ABA – Invest in Austria
April 2013
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ABA-Invest in Austria
Opportunities are our business
 Advisory services for international
investors
 Owned by the Republic of Austria
 25 expert staff
 International network
 Offices in New York, Tokyo, Shanghai
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Turntable Austria:
Success in new geographies…
… nach
• West-Europe
• Southeast-Europe
• South-Europe
• East-Europe
Austria
• Neutral Location
• Multilingual population
St. Petersburg
• Know-How of countries
• Financing
• Enormous Taxadvantages
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Vienna Airport – Leading Hub to / from
CEE and SEE
Austrian Airlines:
23 countries
42 destinations
646 flights per week
Quelle: Vienna Airport 2012
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East-West Platform in the Heart of Europe
Austrian service companies provide special
(South) Eastern European know how
 Carriers
 Banks
 Tax advisors
 Lawyers
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Attractive for More than
300 Regional Headquarters
Global HQ
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Vienna: HQ-Location for international
organizations & Top Conference City
 Vienna: Only UN headquarters in the EU
 UN organizations in Vienna:
UNCITRAL, UNODC, UNIDO, UNIDIR, CTBTO,
UNHCR, OIOS, IMOLIN, etc
 30 HQs of international organizations in Vienna
 More than 14,000 international staff and diplomats
(UN) are living in Vienna
 Leading conference city (according to ICCA study)
 Skilled HQ staff available
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HQ Locations in Comparison
Number of regional headquarters
Slovakia
3
Czech Rep.
13
Poland
16
Hungary
17
Austria
Source: Wolf Theiss, Headquarters Austria, September 2011
303
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Top Investor:
Austrian FDI in CEE and SEE
Percentage of total investment in resprective country and
Austria‘s rank as an investor, 2011
Source: Austrian Ministry of Economy, respective national banks
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You know Austria like this …
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You Are Investing in an Industrial Country
Production sectors as percentage of GDP, 2010
29,2
Austria
27,8
Germany
Japan
27,3
Switzerland
27,2
24,7
EU-27
23,7
Netherlands
21,3
USA
21,8
UK
France
Source: OECD, Eurostat
18,8
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Austria – Facts 2012
8.4 m inhabitants
GDP Growth: 0.8%
GDP/Capita: 33,283€
Inflation: 2.4%
Sources of GDP
Agrar:
1.5%
Industry:
29.2%
Services:
69.3%
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11.5% of Austrians with
Migration Background
Germany
Already naturalized
Foreign citizens
Serb, Mont, Kos
226,882
208,947
Turkey
185,592
Bosnia-Herz.
132,661
Romania
74,639
Croatia
69,859
Poland
63,197
Hungary
45,589
Czech Rep.
44,209
Italy
30,017
Slovakia
28,510
Russia
27,916
Source: Statistics Austria 2012
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Versatile Work Force
 More than 11% of Austrians have a
migration background
 language competencies
 intercultural skills
 University of Economics, Vienna: 25% of
the 24,000 students are foreigners
 Austrian management know how is
sought after internationally
 Siemens, Time Warner, Roche, Deutsche
Bank, MAN, Air Berlin
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Motivated Workforce
10=Motivation of staff is high
8,05
Switzerland 1
Denmark 2
7,76
Austria 3
7,73
Germany 5
7,39
Japan 7
7,35
7,17
Netherlands 10
6,55
USA 20
6,07
Belgium 27
5,87
Czech Rep. 30
5,78
UK 31
Italy 41
5,2
Polamd 46
5,08
Hungary 47
5,03
France 50
Source: World Competitiveness Yearbook 2012
4,78
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Highly productive employees
Unit labor costs 2010, Germany = 100
Japan
USA
Czech Rep.
73
76
84
Netherlands
86
Austria
87
Finland
87
Sweden
Belgium
Germany
Denmark
Italy
France
UK
Source: IW Köln 2012
90
98
100
102
107
113
115
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Moderate Taxation on Corporate Profits
Maximum taxation on profits 2012 in %
Ireland
12.5
Czech Republic
19
Hungary
19
Poland
19
Slovakia
19
Slovenia
Austria
Netherlands
UK
Germany
Italy
France
Source: PricewaterhouseCoopers
20
25
25.5
27
29.8
31.4
34.4
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Austria‘s R&D Expenditures Grow
above Average
Percentage of GDP
2,9
2,7
Germany
Austria
2,8
2,5
2,3
2,1
1,9
EU-27
1,7
1,5
1998 2000 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Source: Eurostat
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COMET – all Centres
in Austria
Industrial Clusters
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Unmatched Quality of Life
Maximum = 10
Switzerland 1
9,76
Austria 2
9,65
Norway 3
9,45
Denmark 4
9,42
9,28
Germany 7
Netherlands 10
9,09
France 17
8,16
USA 19
8,13
7,77
Japan 21
UK 24
7,48
Czech Rep. 25
7,33
Italy 27
7,19
5,26
Poland 39
Hungary 53
4,05
Source: World Competitiveness Yearbook 2012
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ABA-Invest in Austria
Your contact in Austria:
Mag. Birgit Reiter-Braunwieser
Director CEE
Tel.: +43 1 588 58 52
b.reiter-braunwieser@aba.gv.at
KommR Peter Ch. Löschl
Tel.: +43 1 588 58 52
E-Mail: p.loeschl@aba.gv.at
www.investinaustria.at
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