Globalization

Are there any Austrian multinationals? Find some information on the three biggest!

Vienna, April 2003 – More than 1,000 international companies have set up their Central and Eastern European headquarters or business hubs in Austria, underlining the country’s leadership in business outreach to the CEE region. These include prominent multinationals such as Alcatel, Beiersdorf, Bosch, Coca-Cola, Flextronics, Generali, Henkel, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Master Foods, McDonalds, Miele, SIG Combibloc and Siemens.

The most popular multinationals in Austria are Rauch, Omicron, Doppelmayr.

Now I want to explain what there assignment is.

• Rauch is famous for it’s fruit juice, I think there most popular drink is “Red Bull”.
• Omicron is a technical company, which produces “Laserdiodensysteme” and “Laserapplikationen”
• Doppelmayr: This is a worldwide company which builds cable cars and elevators. It’s products are even copied in Asia


Are there groups that are against globalisation? Why?

A few groups which are against globalisation exist.
The biggest one is “Anti-Globalisation”.
They cause it with the fact that little undertakings won’t survive. There are going to be only a few big corporations.


How can you as a consumer support Fair Trade?

For supporting “Fair Trade” you should buy things which were produced by people who get enough money for work. For example don’t buy things which were produced in India. In India it’s very often produces from kids and no one should support child labour.


How is employment in Austria affected by globalisation? Are other areas affected too?

A few peoples say that the globalization reduces the Inflation, because since the globalization is growing that fast, the Inflation got smaller. But for Austria the textile industry is nearly dead. Almost all concerns closed because other counties are able to produce cheaper than Austria.


Your opinion on globalization

On my opinion globalization is a very important thing and it’s good, but there are also bad things about it. I also think globalization keeps the world together.
Because I think that if there would be no globalization one country would be the best, because it gets enough money for researching new things, and poor countries wouldn’t. That’s my main reason for globalization.