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Raiffeisen-Landesbank Tirol AG and Raiffeisen-Bankengruppe Tirol
Raiffeisen-Landesbank Tirol AG
and Raiffeisen-Bankengruppe Tirol
Balance sheet total 7 billion euros, equity ratio 13.49 per cent,
results from ordinary activities totalling 26.5 million euros, and
370 employees who, in 13 locations, look after more than 68,200
private, business and corporate customers. That is Raiffeisen-
Landesbank Tirol AG in a nutshell.
Successful as a team
As a leading strategic voice on the relevant themes, Raiffeisen-
Landesbank Tirol AG is completely dedicated to the proven
Raiffeisen principles. Regional roots, familiarity and safety are the
central values for RLB Tirol AG. With its association comprising
the 76 Tyrolean Raiffeisen banks, it has the largest proportion
of customers in Tyrol – almost half of Tyroleans are Raiffeisen
customers.
Familiarity and excellent advice
In our mobile world, RLB Tirol AG regards a familiar relationship
as more important than spatial proximity. To ensure that it will
carry on meeting customer needs optimally in the future, it offers
contemporary technical solutions for daily financial transactions.
At the same time, it bundles competence in expert teams, thereby
increasing the quality and availability of expert advice in the
specialist fields of assessment and financing.
Regional added value
The Raiffeisen-Landesbank, together with the 76 Tyrolean
Raiffeisen banks, makes an economic contribution to the Tyrolean
economy and to Tyrolean society. Not only in Tyrol but also
throughout Austria, Raiffeisen makes an essential contribution to
added value – as the economic researchers at the ECONOMICA
Institute of Economic Research have analysed:
• Every euro generated in the Raiffeisen Banking Group triggers
the generation of one further euro in gross added value at other
enterprises: this is money that remains within the region.
• Thanks to the degree of interweaving with cooperation partners
and supplier companies, one additional job in Austria depends
on each employee of the Raiffeisen Banking Group. To be
precise, one out of every 51 jobs in Austria in the production or
services sector is attributable directly, indirectly or in induced
form to the Raiffeisen Banking Group.
• The Raiffeisen Banking Group pays 2 billion euros in taxes and
social security contributions annually: money that benefits the
federal and regional governments and the municipalities.
In this way, RLB Tirol AG and the Raiffeisen banks are
demonstrably strengthening the regional economy and are of
particular economic significance for all municipalities, especially
those in remote areas.
Important sponsor of the region
Alongside its role as a modern provider of banking services,
RLB Tirol AG also has a long tradition of charitable work and
educational, cultural and sports sponsorships in its marketing
territory. Examples include the Tiroler Sozialmarkt in Innsbruck
(a cut-price grocery store), Caritas, the German Red Cross, the
Tyrolean theatre group Tiroler Volksschauspiele Telfs, the New
Orleans Festival, the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music, numerous
schools and sports clubs and many more besides.
World Savings Day: Made in Tyrol
Raiffeisen-Landesbank Tirol AG emphasised its regional nature on
World Savings Day, too: for example, employees handed out hand-
made chocolate from Tyrol in 2014. In addition, the Bauernbuffet
caterers from Axams sent their female farmers to pamper the
customers with delicious sausage and cheese specialities.
The Raiffeisen principle Worked out in a spirit
of partnership
Almost the entire workforce and the management board and
supervisory board members discussed the RLB Raiffeisen principle
in 2014. The result: guiding principles that encapsulate what
Raiffeisen stands for and what principles were resulting from
the cooperative spirit of partnership. Impeccable service quality,
a strong sense of community, familiarity and great loyalty and
commitment to the region are the values that are as important to
Raiffeisen today as they were more than 125 years ago.
Employees enjoy helping
The employees donated no less than 4,550 euros in the course
of their 2014 Christmas campaign for the social, educational and
therapeutic youth residential community of the SOS-Kinderdorf in
Innsbruck. RLB Tirol AG doubled this amount, with the result that a
cheque for the princely sum of 9,100 euros could be handed over.
Furthermore, around 35 employees got involved for the benefit of
the charitable Tiroler Sozialmarkt grocery store as part of the 2014
Volunteer Day: They picked up goods from companies, weighed
and repacked food and stacked the shelves. They also organised
a small spring festival with flowers, sausages, coffee and home-
made cakes for the Sozialmarkt’s customers plus presents for the
children. It was help that came from the heart.
