National holiday

World Savings Day brought forward: the new start was well received

Stefanie Christina Huber, CEO of Sparkasse Oberösterreich, with Stefan Koch and Georg Starhemberg (right).(Bild: Wenzel Markus)

Thursday was marked by a lot of hype at the branch counters, where the focus was primarily on young savers. This year, the local banks chose October 24 as the new World Savings Day for the first time, because October 31 is in the middle of the autumn vacations and is therefore neither employee- nor customer-friendly.

"Well, is today World Savings Day already?" Some people were still a little surprised on Thursday, October 24, but most people had noticed: Because the actual date of October 31 no longer seemed quite ideal due to the clash with the autumn vacations, the banks moved World Savings Day forward to October 24 for the first time this year.

"And that went down really well," said a delighted Sparkasse Oberösterreich CEO Stefanie Christina Huber, who, like Raiffeisenlandesbank Oberösterreich CEO Heinrich Schaller, Oberbank CEO Franz Gasselsberger, Klaus Kumpfmüller (Hypo Oberösterreich) and Markus Auer (VKB), welcomed their top customers.

Klaus Kumpfmüller (Hypo OÖ) with Andreas Kolar, CFO of Energie AG; VKB CEO Markus Auer (r.) in conversation with tax consultant Markus Raml.(Bild: Krone KREATIV/Markus Wenzel (2))

Who all stopped by? In addition to voestalpine CEO Herbert Eibensteiner, Energie AG CEO Leonhard Schitter, Johannes Kepler University Rector Stefan Koch, Upper Austrian Chamber of Commerce President Doris Hummer, Joachim Haindl-Grutsch from the Federation of Austrian Industries, Former ÖFB President Leo Windtner, Georg Starhemberg, tax consultant Markus Raml and master confectioner Leo Jindrak, Stefan Leitl, Hödlmayr board member Robert Horvath, Werner Pamminger (Business Upper Austria) and Christoph Khinast (LAWOG) celebrated the national holiday.