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With more than two million readers, the Kronen Zeitung is Austria’s No. 1 daily newspaper. Informative, with a concise journalistic style and a convenient format, the “Krone” is Austrians’ favorite newspaper. And for good reason: What appears in the Kronen Zeitung moves all of Austria—and whatever moves the country becomes a topic for the “Krone.”

The “Krone” is also active in animal welfare and advocates for the proper and species-appropriate care, handling, and use of animals by humans.

You can read more about this every day in your Kronen Zeitung and on krone.at.

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“Reliable insurance coverage for everyone” was Archduke Johann of Austria’s motto when he founded Grazer Wechselseitige Versicherung in 1828. Since then, the company has evolved from its origins as a fire insurance provider into the country’s sixth-largest insurance company and an international enterprise with 17 subsidiaries in Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe and more than 4,500 employees. Down-to-earth values, reliability, and a customer-focused approach are the cornerstones of its success story, which now spans over 190 years: With customer-friendly, personalized advice and tailor-made products designed to meet specific needs, GRAWE guarantees international quality combined with very strict domestic safety standards. For more information about GRAWE, please call the information hotline at +43(0)316/8037-6222 or visit the company’s website.

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SPAR is one of Austria’s leading food retailers. Founded in 1954 by Hans F. Reisch together with 100 independent merchants in Tyrol, SPAR now operates throughout Austria and remains a 100 percent privately owned Austrian company. SPAR was founded in Styria in 1958. With around 270 locations in the Styria and Southern Burgenland regions, SPAR is THE local grocer!

Since 2018, SPAR Styria has been sponsoring Amira the lioness and is looking forward to welcoming new lion cubs in the coming years.

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Energie Steiermark, headquartered in Graz, is Austria’s fourth-largest energy and service provider. We are deeply rooted in our home region—not only through our majority owner, the State of Styria—and we support its development as a reliable service partner and a dynamic force for innovation.

With our 29 main operating locations in Styria, a sales company in Vienna, and holdings in various companies, we are always close to our customers. This extends beyond Austria as well—to Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and Slovenia. We place a high priority on energy efficiency and innovative service offerings in the areas of electricity, natural gas, heating, and mobility.

The solutions come from our 1,700 employees. They dedicate their experience and expertise to building fair partnerships with our approximately 600,000 customers in Germany and abroad. With us, everything is in the green: When it comes to energy generation, we rely exclusively on renewable energy from water, wind, sun, and biomass.

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Eskimo is Austria’s undisputed market leader in ice cream. Top-quality ice cream and a proven product mix of timeless classics and cutting-edge innovations—that remains Eskimo’s secret to success to this day. Eskimo products are available at the Zooschenke and Panoramaplatzl restaurants.

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JOLLY, the Austrian school supply brand from Brevillier Urban and Sachs in Hirm (Burgenland), has been the epitome of products for painting, drawing, and writing for many generations of students. The vast school product line ranges from colored pencils to wax crayons to pencil sharpeners—all featuring genuine and unbeatable “MADE IN AUSTRIA” quality.

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