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Trade Association Poing: Management urgently wanted! General meeting cancelled

2022-08-08T04:55:34.161Z


Trade Association Poing: Management urgently wanted! General meeting cancelled Created: 08/08/2022, 06:46 By: Armin Roesl Founding member Günter Furtner (2nd from left) at the opening of a market Sunday in Poing. © Reinhold Petrich It's a paradox: the Poing trade association has gained a few new members in recent months - but the board positions have been orphaned. Nobody wants to take on lead


Trade Association Poing: Management urgently wanted!

General meeting cancelled

Created: 08/08/2022, 06:46

By: Armin Roesl

Founding member Günter Furtner (2nd from left) at the opening of a market Sunday in Poing.

© Reinhold Petrich

It's a paradox: the Poing trade association has gained a few new members in recent months - but the board positions have been orphaned.

Nobody wants to take on leadership roles.

Poing – The Poing trade association is plagued by concerns about young talent on the board.

Although the association itself has gained new members (read: companies) in recent months, the management posts have been orphaned.

None of the more than 60 members came to the annual general meeting, which is why the meeting, including the election of the board offices, had to be cancelled.

"Isn't that enough to make you cry?", writes Günter Furtner in an open letter and appeal to all Poinger traders.

Isn't that to cry for?

Günter Furtner, founding member and long-time chairman

Furtner is 74 years old, co-founded the Poing trade association in 1995 and has been on the board ever since.

The past few years rather involuntarily, because no one else had found each other.

There was a new chairman for a short time, who, however, not only turned his back on Poing, but on Germany and moved abroad a short time later.

So it was again: "In the end everything depends on the Furtner", as Günter Furtner himself says with a slightly tormenting smile.

These include the two shopping Sundays (spring and autumn market), which the trade association has always organized together with the municipality of Poing, and the Poing voucher introduced in December 2021.

In the course of this, the trade association also gained new member companies.

(By the way: Everything from the region is now also available in our regular Ebersberg newsletter.)


"But the trade association is not a sure-fire success," says Günter Furtner.

It needs people at the top who take on responsibility, coordination and organization as board members.

The 74-year-old says that he and his two previous deputies have been too old for this for a long time, which is why he is specifically looking for young people.

"These can also be employees from member companies, they don't have to be their bosses," he says.

His goal is to rejuvenate the board and thus keep the trade association alive.

"Dissolving the local association is not an option," he emphasizes.

A representation of the local trade in the community is important.


Poing: Interested parties can contact Furtner

"We would be a very powerful local association with sufficient funds and ideas to develop Poing into a lively shopping town and to further expand events such as our market Sundays," writes Furtner at the end of the open letter - and adds the question to this sentence: "Would that be one thing exciting task for you?”


Anyone interested can contact Günter Furtner by e-mail: guenter.furtner@gv-poing.de.

You can find more current news from the district of Ebersberg at Merkur.de/Ebersberg.

Source: merkur

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