Entrepreneurs Association South Tyrol

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The Entrepreneurs' Association South Tyrol has around 500 member companies with 30,000 employees and was founded in 1945. It is the association of industrially organized companies in South Tyrol and belongs to the umbrella association of Italian industry, Confindustria . The Entrepreneurs Association South Tyrol works with elected, voluntary association officials and full-time employees. The association officials are entrepreneurs and executive employees in member companies and represent the concerns of their group, their district and the association as well as entrepreneurship. Their role is regulated in the association statute. The full-time employees are employees of the association. The seat of the association is in Bolzano .

Industry in South Tyrol

The industry (manufacturing, mining , construction , energy and water supply ) contributes more than any other sector of the economy to GDP in South Tyrol at.

The total added value created in South Tyrol (= sum of the income from employment, the operating results of the companies and the tenders) amounts to 15.9 billion euros for the year 2011. South Tyrol is therefore one of the wealthiest regions in Italy and is also at the forefront in a European and international comparison. The manufacturing industry (industry in the narrower sense and the construction sector) contributes the most to the creation of this added value with 21.4%. Other important branches of the economy are tourism (12.7%), real estate (11.6%), trade (10.0%) and agriculture (4.4%).

The total added value generated by the UVS companies amounts to 2.6 billion euros, which corresponds to 16.4% of the South Tyrolean added value. No other economic sector - with the exception of industry itself - performs as well. No other trade association creates such a high added value for the state of South Tyrol as the South Tyrolean Entrepreneurs Association.

The companies of the employers' association employ around 30,000 people; If you also include the branches outside of South Tyrol, the number of employees increases to around 40,000. 12.1% of the employees in South Tyrol work in the UVS companies, but the share of personnel costs is 17.1%; UVS companies therefore pay 1/3 higher wages on average.

Mission statement of the employers' association South Tyrol

The Entrepreneur Association of South Tyrol is a service company and is based on voluntary membership. The association includes companies of all sectors and sizes. The manufacture and sale of their products and / or services are organized on an industrial scale.

The tasks of the association:

  • Representation and advocacy
  • Opinion leadership on topics relevant to industrial and economic policy
  • Company-oriented, tailor-made training and further education
  • Highly qualified specialist advice
  • Mediation of expert contacts
  • Comprehensive support for member companies
  • Special, cost-saving offers

The services of the Entrepreneurs' Association of South Tyrol can be found in the service catalog.

Association bodies

Stefan Pan was elected President of the South Tyrol Business Association in spring 2010. He is supported by four vice presidents.

Young entrepreneurs

The young entrepreneurs are a group of entrepreneurs within the South Tyrol Entrepreneur Association.

Membership in the group of young entrepreneurs is voluntary. Members must meet the following requirements:

  • they must be entrepreneurs themselves, children of entrepreneurs or shareholders in member companies and participate in or know about the business activity
  • they must be senior executives with proven management activity at a member company of the employers' association. In this case, the owner or the legal representative of the member company must give his consent in writing and confirm the functions performed by the person concerned
  • they must be between 18 and 40 years old.

The group of young entrepreneurs has its own governing body, which is elected every three years by the assembly. The assembly consists of all young South Tyrolean entrepreneurs belonging to the group.

The governing body consists of a president, one or more vice-presidents, a past-president (the previous president), a board of directors and a secretary who is appointed by the employers' association among its own employees. Marius Eccel has been President of Young Entrepreneurs since 2010.

The group currently has 79 members and was founded in 1971.

At the national level, the group has 11,200 members, divided into 105 territorial groups and 20 regional committees.

The Small Business Committee

In 2010, the small business committee was elected for the first time within the employers' association. According to the association's statutes, companies with up to 35 employees belong to this group. The small business owners committee has the same number of members as the number of districts plus one other member from the district with the most small businesses.

The areas of activity of the Small Business Committee:

The representative of the committee is Oswald Eller.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Social report 2011 of the employers' association South Tyrol
  2. ↑ Catalog of services