Maleny Commerce Update

I may be biased

It’s easy to be parochial living in one of the best places in the world. Testimony is the flow of people that each year choose to call the Sunshine Coast home. In Maleny, we’re probably just that little bit more so.

In the absence of large employers, the backbone of many rural and regional towns like Maleny is small businesses. As the peak body representing the Maleny and district business community, our key objective is to support, advocate and promote the area together with our local businesses to the broadest of audiences.

Tragically, for many small towns, a lack of opportunity can often mean that their greatest export will be their youth. It needn’t be this way. Maleny Commerce has a vision of strong, innovative local businesses. Businesses that can grow and develop consistent with Maleny’s unique character and personality to provide sustainable employment and prosperity.

We want everyone to know, Maleny’s a great place to do business, naturally!

One of the practical ways we assist is to help grow the pie. We encourage our local businesses to think beyond local customers and beyond traditional industries to new sources of customers and a broader, more resilient economic base.
Our “Hinterland Connects” networking evenings, held at various times throughout the year, are a great example.

Hinterland Connects can quickly, effectively and inexpensively expose local businesses to not only other local businesses but also to new businesses and new opportunities from across the range and the coast, perhaps even the world.
The viability, prosperity and future of a town is inherently linked to the prosperity of its businesses. Maleny Commerce aims to foster that which enables us to continue living and working in the best place in the world.
Charles Hodgson for Maleny Commerce

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