Delicatessen products from Vienna

Mautner Markhof has been providing Austrian families with delicatessen products for 160 years now. Tubes of mustard, jars of horseradish or refreshing juices are welcome adjuncts to warm summer barbecues more...

Antikvariát Steiner – one of Bratislava’s trademarks

The history of Steiner’s antiquarian bookshop is an integral part of Bratislava’s city history. In the old town centre of Bratislava there used to be a Jewish-owned bookshop more...

Moscow’s chocolate heart

For almost 150 years, the Red October chocolate factory has been providing the Russian capital with its delicious confectionary. Despite wars and revolutions, the factory has never ceased to operate more...

Sarajevo Beer Brewery – king of Bosnian Beers

The beer brewery in Sarajevo is one of the largest and most profitable industrial enterprises in the city, and above all it is the oldest, so it certainly deserves to be featured in the wieninternational.at series about traditional companies more...

Sweet dreams for 100 years

The Kraš confectionary company, with its delicious chocolates and other sweets, is without doubt one of the few traditional Croatian businesses to be known beyond the country’s borders more...

“You can make anything out of iron!”

This time wieninternational.at is paying a visit to a small traditional business in Sofia. The smithy “Krali Marko” at the heart of the city looks back on a 200 year history; the owner is a real “original" more...

Unique in every respect

What do Jackie Kennedy, Luciano Pavarotti and Franco Nero have in common? They are or were all fans of Unicum, the famous Hungarian bitter, whose formulation has remained a well protected family secret for over 220 years more...

Štark: the sweetest company in Belgrade

Those who spent their childhood in Serbia in the last few decades will remember the sweet and salty delicacies available – salt sticks, peanut puffs, chocolate bananas and the chocolate brand Najlepše želje (best wishes) more...

Old handicrafts flourish again

On its search for traditional firms, wieninternational.at went to Prague, where the company Český národní podnik aims to rescue traditional handicrafts in the Czech Republic. Since the fall of the Iron Curtain the trade mark more...