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AUSTRIA - GRUPPE 98
Contact:
Thomas
Katjejowsky
Group coordinator
WWF Austria
Ottakringer Str. 114, A-1162 Vienna
tel. 43 1 488 17 226, fax 43 1 488 17 77
e mail thomas.katjejowsky@wwf.at
Dr Gunther Lutschinger
CEO
WWF Austria
Ottakringer Str. 114, A-1162 Vienna
tel. 43 1 488 17, fax 43 1 488 17 77
e mail wwf@wwf.at
Co-ordinator: WWF Austria
Founded: 1996
Number of members: 25 (4/98)
Main business areas:
Timber Trade, furniture makers and shops, viscose
producer, cabinet makers and retailers.
The members are:
Alco Bauelemente - Wintergardens Pavillons AuRa Tech GmbH - Wood Technology Concorde Austria - furniture trading Die Holzer Stiege - Carpenter Elite Mobelhandel - furniture trading Fa. Neumair Veronika - Carpenter Frey-Amon - Timber Trade Gaspo - Accessories for garden, sports GEA - furniture trading Holzkultur PBK Wieser - carpenter J. und A. Frischeis - Timber Trade Kaufhof & Kaufhalle - furniture trading
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Lenzing AG - paper industry Grobl Mobel - furniture trading Musikinstrumente Peter Murnseer - music instruments OMGE - furniture trading Otto Versand - Mail order company Panda Versandhandel - Mail order company Pichler Mobel - furniture trading Priestersberger Holzhandel - Carpenter Pro Solar - Solar energy, architecture bureau The Body Shop UMC Verlagsgesellschaft - publishing house Whitfield GmbH - ovens Wood Machines GmbH - wood machines
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Turnover: US$960m
Suppliers: 3,500
Consumers: 160,000 a month
Background
At the end of 1995 WWF Austria started to organise a buyers' group in Austria. The WWF Group '98
was founded and presented in a press conference in Vienna on 4 June 1996 with 15 members.
The goal of the WWF Group '98 is to install a working and permanently growing market for certified
timber and timber products including paper.
The members are committed to find out where their timber and timber products come from within one
year after becoming a member and to prepare themselves to trade with certified products The target
is to trade an increasing number of FSC certified timber and timber
products by 1998. Two members are already offering certified products for sale.
The Austrian timber industry depends very strongly on the export of timber and timber products
and therefore the WWF Group '98 works together with the Buyers' Groups in Germany and Switzerland
whenever possible.
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