BR+E Program Overview
What is Business Retention + Expansion (BR+E)?
Business Retention + Expansion (BR+E) is a community-based, volunteer driven economic development tool to encourage the growth and stability of local business.
BR+E promotes a welcoming business environment and fosters job retention and creation by helping communities identify actions to address both issues and opportunities facing local businesses.
The Municipality of North Grenville, through partnership with the North Grenville Chamber of Commerce and partial funding by the Ontario Rural Economic Development Program (RED), is delivering the Business Retention and Expansion (BR+E) Program to our local business community this year.
Building on positive experiences, recommendations and actions taken from the last Business Retention and Expansion Program completed in 1999, we are again looking forward to working with our local business community to address concerns of today and identify opportunities for tomorrow. The process involves determining needs and opportunities for local business through a systematic approach using surveys and interviews and then developing and implementing an action plan to address those needs and opportunities.
BR+E Program Short-term Goals
• Provide community support for local business through volunteer involvement
• Identify and address immediate concerns of individual business
• Let local businesses know how much they are valued in the community
BR+E Program Long-term Goals
• Increase the competitiveness of local businesses
• Develop and implement action plan
· Help local business manage change in the local economic environment
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