Results of the Survey April 2006 New Europe – Old Europe Opportunity or Threat? Results of the Survey

Results of the Survey April 2006 Whom did we ask? Companies in our region from different branches of industry and business, like »Paper industry »Food industry »Chemical industry »Finance »Trade

Results of the Survey April 2006 For example: Mondi Business Paper AG Bene Büromöbel AG Raiffeisen International Bank Holding AG Voest Alpine AG

Results of the Survey April How did the extension of the European Union to the east affect your company?

Results of the Survey April Have you already got business partners in the new EU countries? Each firm, which returned the questionnaire, has business partners in the new EU countries. About 20 % of the questionnaires were sent back from the companies to us.

Results of the Survey April 2006 Wich states do you trade with mainly?

Results of the Survey April 2006 Have you already been trading with these countries before 2004? In the average these 83 % have been trading with those countries for about 21.4 years.

Results of the Survey April 2006 Do you have your own subsidiaries in these countries? Mostly food- producing firms took „no“ at this question.

Results of the Survey April 2006 Do you mainly export or import from/to these countries?

Results of the Survey April 2006 What are the reasons for going abroad? No companies took reasons like tax incentives better quality of products lax environmental regulations

Results of the Survey April 2006 What are the problems working and trading with or in other countries?

Results of the Survey April 2006 What do you expect for the future?

Results of the Survey April 2006 The numbers of employees of the asked companies are between 40 and 43,614 persons

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