Austria *

*) Where your profits climb to the top

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Peter Ch. LöschlABA – Invest in Austria April 2013

AustriaBusiness Location Austria

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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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St. Petersburg

Turntable Austria: Success in new geographies…

• Southeast-Europe

Austria• Neutral Location• Multilingual population• Know-How of countries• Financing• Enormous Taxadvantages

… nach• West-Europe

• South-Europe• East-Europe

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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

Source: Wolf Theiss, Headquarters Austria, September 2011

13

16

17

303

3Slovakia

Czech Rep.

Poland

Hungary

Austria

Number of regional headquarters

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Top Investor:Austrian FDI in CEE and SEE

Source: Austrian Ministry of Economy, respective national banks

Percentage of total investment in resprective country and Austria‘s rank as an investor, 2011

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You know Austria like this …

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You Are Investing in an Industrial Country

29,2

27,8

27,3

27,2

24,7

23,7

21,3

21,8

18,8

Austria

Germany

Japan

Switzerland

EU-27

Netherlands

USA

UK

France

Source: OECD, Eurostat

Production sectors as percentage of GDP, 2010

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Austria – Facts 2012

8.4 m inhabitants

GDP Growth: 0.8%

GDP/Capita: 33,283€

Inflation: 2.4%

Sources of GDPAgrar: 1.5%Industry: 29.2%Services: 69.3%

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11.5% of Austrians with Migration Background

Germany

Serb, Mont, Kos

Turkey

Bosnia-Herz.

Romania

Croatia

Poland

Hungary

Czech Rep.

Italy

Slovakia

Russia

Source: Statistics Austria 2012

Foreign citizens Already naturalized 226,882

208,947

185,592

132,661

74,639

69,859

63,197

45,589

44,209

28,510

27,916

30,017

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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

Source: World Competitiveness Yearbook 2012

10=Motivation of staff is high

8,05

7,76

7,73

7,39

7,35

7,17

6,55

6,07

5,87

5,78

5,2

5,08

5,03

4,78

Switzerland 1

Denmark 2

Austria 3

Germany 5

Japan 7

Netherlands 10

USA 20

Belgium 27

Czech Rep. 30

UK 31

Italy 41

Polamd 46

Hungary 47

France 50

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Highly productive employees

Source: IW Köln 2012

73

76

84

86

87

87

90

98

100

102

107

113

115

Japan

USA

Czech Rep.

Netherlands

Austria

Finland

Sweden

Belgium

Germany

Denmark

Italy

France

UK

Unit labor costs 2010, Germany = 100

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Moderate Taxation on Corporate Profits

Source: PricewaterhouseCoopers

Maximum taxation on profits 2012 in %

19

19

19

19

20

25

27

34.4

31.4

29.8

25.5

12.5Ireland

Czech Republic

Hungary

Poland

Slovakia

Slovenia

Austria

Netherlands

UK

Germany

Italy

France

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1,5

1,7

1,9

2,1

2,3

2,5

2,7

2,9

1998 2000 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012

Austria‘s R&D Expenditures Grow above Average

GermanyAustria

EU-27

Source: Eurostat

Percentage of GDP

2,8

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COMET – all Centres Industrial Clusters in Austria

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Unmatched Quality of LifeMaximum = 10

Source: World Competitiveness Yearbook 2012

9,76

9,65

9,45

9,42

9,28

9,09

8,16

8,13

7,77

7,48

7,33

7,19

5,26

4,05

Switzerland 1

Austria 2

Norway 3

Denmark 4

Germany 7

Netherlands 10

France 17

USA 19

Japan 21

UK 24

Czech Rep. 25

Italy 27

Poland 39

Hungary 53

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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