About twenty prominent Serb businessmen from Vienna decided to launch an initiative to connect business owners of Serbian origin at the level of the whole of Austria. This project takes place within the Association of Serbian Businessmen in Austria.

According to official data, there are about 20,000 companies in Austria owned by businessmen of Serbian origin. There are 8,000 of them in Vienna alone, which is a huge potential.

‘We have a really big potential and we could influence the Austrian economy much more and help each other. It means that this networking, establishing contact between those Serb businessmen, many of whom do not know each other, would strengthen the Serbian community as a whole, because if there is no collaboration, everyone minds only their own business’, says Milan Gajić, deputy president.

What inspired you to take the helm of this association?

‘Because I am of Serbian origin, and I want to help our people, to advise them, so that they too can be successful like me and those in our association’, says the president of the association, Ostoja Matić.

Which requirements should a company meet to be part of that association?

‘First of all, be a legal entity in the territory of Austria, the next requirement is to agree with the goals of our association, then to want to support the association’s work, to offer its own vision and idea, and the main requirement is to also have a humanitarian vision and to want to leave a mark on future organizations and society in Vienna’, says secretary Milan Glišić.

We heard that, in addition to business activities, this association would also engage in humanitarian work and sponsor cultural and artistic programs?