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First look: Loewe lands in Austria
Drapers
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August 18, 2025
By Katie Ross 18 August 2025 Spanish luxury house Loewe has opened a 3,750 sq ft flagship in Vienna, the brand's first store in Austria. Please register for guest access or subscribe to Drapers to keep reading. If you are already a subscriber,...
Austrian Ambassador explores partnership with Academic City
Graphic
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August 18, 2025
The Austrian Ambassador to Ghana, Jurgen Heissel, has paid a courtesy visit to the Academic City University to explore opportunities for deepening collaboration between Austria and the university. The visit served as a platform for the Ambassador...
EV Fast Chargers Create Air Pollution: TDS
The Drive
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August 18, 2025
Good morning and welcome to The Downshift, or TDS for short. The Downshift is The Drive‘s weekday early morning quick-hit news rundown that gathers all the latest automotive stories bubbling around the globe in one place. Grab a cup of coffee and...
The logistical nightmare of holding a climate summit in the Amazon
El País
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August 18, 2025
Should the delegates traveling from all over the world to Belém, Brazil, to negotiate the next steps in something as momentous as the fight against climate change face-to-face share a room, or should each have single accommodation? On the eve of...
"Red Bull are not a manufacturer, they are a drinks company": When Lewis Hamilton compared the Austrian squad to McLaren and Ferrari
Sportskeeda
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August 18, 2025
During an interview in 2011, Lewis Hamilton dismissed Red Bull's 2010 F1 success by claiming that the Austrian team was simply a "drinks company" without the legacy of the likes of McLaren and Ferrari. The Briton also claimed that the...
Loewe opens first Austrian flagship store in Vienna
FashionNetwork India
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August 18, 2025
Loewe has launched its own retail destination in Austria: The Spanish luxury brand recently opened its first store in Vienna as a flagship location in the country. The Spanish luxury brand recently opened a store in Vienna's Kohlmarkt. - LOEWE In...
Driving change: Sustainable innovation in flexible packaging can’t wait
Packaging Dive
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August 18, 2025
Flexible packaging is undergoing a major material shift due to concerns about recyclability and environmental impact. Packaging accounts for 40% of global plastic consumption, with flexible packaging making up approximately 50% of that. Yet most...
Why Austria has protected its historic blends
The Drinks Business
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August 18, 2025
Wiener Gemischter Satz is almost unique as a legally mandated blend, while other Austrian regions see producers blending to explore new avenues. db explores why multivarietal wines found such a central place in Austrian wine. The vineyards around...
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Walter Oblin, CEO, Austrian Post
Parcel and Postal Technology International
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August 18, 2025
At the beginning of May, Austrian Post announced that its new corporate strategy is to become one of the leading logistics and service groups in Austria, Central and Eastern Europe, Turkey and beyond, with over 150 million satisfied customers and...
Feature: Austrian chocolate company sees bright prospects in Chinese market
Xinhua News Agency
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VIENNA, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- In the small town of Bergl in Styria, Austria, there's a "chocolate theater" that draws over 2,000 visitors daily during peak summer months. Over 8,000 kilometers away, in Shanghai, China, there's an almost identical...
Global Warming en Vogue, Deal With It!
Dissident Voice
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August 15, 2025
Global Warming (“GW”) is winning, and it is gaining. Obstacles to hotter temperatures are falling to the wayside, allowing GW to go for more intense heatwaves along with much, much higher sea levels. Alas, the greenest of green countries are...
Global Warming in Vogue, Deal With It!
Pressenza
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August 15, 2025
Global Warming (“GW”) is winning, and it is gaining. Obstacles to hotter temperatures are falling to the wayside, allowing GW to go for more intense heatwaves along with much, much higher sea levels. Alas, the greenest of green countries are...
Keeping cool with colors – Vienna museum paints asphalt to fight heat
CGTN
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August 17, 2025
Member of artist group 'Holla Hoop' Jonas Griessler (L) and Prof. Hans-Peter Hutter (R) sit on the ground over the colorfully painted courtyard of the 'Heidi Horten museum. /Alex Halada/AFP Member of artist group 'Holla Hoop' Jonas Griessler (L)...
OETI And Julia Deiger Launch New Quality Label For Regionally Produced Fashion...
Textile World
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VIENNA / SALZBURG, Austria — August 14, 2025 — OETI is partnering with Austrian designer Julia Deiger, founder of the sustainable label DeLin. INSPECTED QUALITY is a quality label from OETI for textile and leather businesses. Based on OETI’s 60...
Austria faces mounting insolvency pressures amid economic headwinds
International Financial Law Review
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August 15, 2025
A number of crisis factors – such as COVID, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and Israel's war against Hamas – have influenced the Austrian restructuring and insolvency environment in the past few years. There are now initial signs of the economic...
Austrian artists cool Vienna’s streets with vibrant climate art
Daily Sabah
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August 15, 2025
Equipped with an infrared thermometer, Austrian artist Jonas Griessler measures the sweltering heat in an inner courtyard in the centre of Vienna. Thanks to his collective's artwork covering the black asphalt with a multitude of bright colors, the...
Vienna City Council talks sidewalks, kayak launch at meeting
Parkersburg News & Sentinel - West Virginia
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From left, Vienna Mayor Chad Emrick discusses the agenda for Thursday evening’s City Council meeting alongside Recorder Rod Smith. Look for full coverage online at newsandsentinel.com and in Sunday’s print edition. (Photo by Gwen Sour) VIENNA –...
New study claims ‘high survival’ of rainbow trout in specialized hydropower turbines
Renewable Energy World
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August 18, 2025
A recently published peer-reviewed paper in Environmental and Sustainability Indicators highlights the fish passage survival rates achieved by Natel Energy’s FishSafe Restoration Hydro Turbine (RHT) designs. The study, Maximizing safe passage for...
Vienna museum tries to keep cool with colours
Newstalk ZB
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August 15, 2025
Armed with an infrared thermometer, Austrian artist Jonas Griessler measures the sweltering heat in an inner courtyard in the centre of Vienna. Thanks to his collective’s artwork covering the black asphalt with a multitude of bright colours, the...
Nation of Debt: Higher taxes, deeper spending cuts inevitable as economy suffers from long Covid
The New Zealand Herald
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August 18, 2025
Spending is at a fundamentally unsustainable level, even once you strip out the ups and downs associated with different parts of the economic cycle. The Government’s finances aren’t just suffering from a hangover that will pass. The chills run...