Surprising change of boss at the largest warehouse in Upper Austria

Bang effect in the Raiffeisen cooperative sector: The largest warehouse separated from managing director Stefan Schamberger on Thursday. He was head of the warehouse Innviertel-Traunviertel-Urfahr based in Geinberg for almost nine years (which was created from two mergers in recent years). The warehouse told the OÖ Nachrichten that he had ended the activity “by mutual agreement with the board of directors and the supervisory board”.

Chairman Luwig Hubauer does not want to say more about this. Schamberger could not be reached. According to OÖN information, there were differences of opinion. The additions of the mid-forties Schamberger and the officials should no longer have matched. Schamberger may have been looking for a new challenge.

As of today, Friday, the new managing director is an old acquaintance: Josef Kainrad. The 65-year-old was the second managing director of the Innviertel-Traunviertel-Urfahr warehouse until March 2022 and retired a good ten months ago. Now he jumps in at short notice. He likes doing it, says Kainrad. He also says nothing about the background. Just this much: Kainrad was also surprised on Tuesday when he was asked to become managing director again.

How things will continue at the top will be regulated in the course of the year, says Hubauer. Kainrad expects to be boss “beyond this year”. Hubauer praises Kainrad’s “great experience and successful work as managing director and spokesman for the Upper Austrian Lagerhaus managing directors”.

The warehouse Innviertel-Traunviertel-Urfahr employs 900 people in 61 companies, 44 branches and 14 workshops. Sales in 2021 were 303 million euros, compared to around 370 million euros in the previous year. The result is very good, say Hubauer and Kainrad.