Your shopfront is often your customer’s first interaction with your business. If ‘first impressions last’, then it should always be a positive experience. This article provides an easy maintenance checklist to help you keep your shopfront looking fresh.

Exciting times ahead for Melton Town Centre, with funding announced to deliver a range of projects, aimed at raising consumer awareness of the precinct through activations, installations, physical improvements and marketing.

The new financial year is a chance to ‘reflect and reassess’ and start with a positive outlook. While the outlook will look different for everyone, there are some business basics every owner can keep in mind, particularly as the last two financial years will be unique against the backdrop of the current and foreseeable economic climate.

After decades of campaigning, it’s on the way: Minister for Health Martin Foley MP joined Melton City Council Mayor Cr Kathy Majdlik in Cobblebank on Sunday to announce the site for the new Melton hospital.

Works outlined in the 2021/22 Melton City Council Budget include building works valued at $39.66 million; $17.5 million in recreational, leisure and community facilities; an extensive roads investment of $70.27 million; footpaths and cycle-ways worth $2.56 million; bridges at $4.22 million; $700,000 in street tree planting; $450,000 in library books; and $214,300 in public art.

Much More Music is a new program bringing live music to local businesses, helping to activate and promote businesses and surrounding precincts.  

The Victorian Government’s $64 million Digital Jobs program is creating a new pipeline of talent to meet the digital skills needs of Victorian employers. The program aims to produce up to 5,000 job-ready candidates with up-to-date digital skills that will help Victorian businesses thrive.

Global logistics giant NewCold is investing $147 million to expand its Asia Pacific headquarters in Truganina and bolster Victoria’s food storage capacity, with critical support provided by the Victorian Government.

Is the Circular Economy on your radar as an emerging opportunity?

If you are unfamiliar with the term, when applied to business strategy, the circular economy is a new approach that applies Japanese kaizen principles and design thinking to enhance profits through resource optimisation.

While COVID-19 caused plenty of frustration for businesses across the City of Melton, it also provided an opportunity for the team at Eynesbury to complete renovations, test and try new offerings and to regroup ready to offer a range of products and services to the local and business community.

The newly opened Punthill Apartments is situated above the Springlake Shopping Centre on Caroline Springs Boulevard, with on-site parking and offers rooms with spectacular views.

Amazon Australia has announced applications are now open for more than 200 jobs in Melbourne’s west as it prepares to open its second fulfilment centre (FC) in Ravenhall later this year.

Melton City Council has recently received funding through the State Government’s Suburban Revitalisation Program to invest in the Melton Town Centre. A Board chaired by Steve McGhie MP, State Member for Melton, has been established to oversee the program. 

A domain name ending in .au signifies that the person or organisation using it has a connection Australia. On 12 April 2021 a new set of rules for the .au country code took effect. 

“ A down to earth and diverse place where everyone accepts and respects each other. The Melton South community are a diverse range of people that get along, like to meet new people, mentor each other to learn, be inspired and kind.” 

Business owners in the municipality can learn more about the existing population through our suite of free demographics tools.

Melton City Council has welcomed several positive highlights in the State Budget, and has outlined its hopes for future State commitments on its highest priority projects.

Over the last few weeks the Eco-Dev team has run Business in Place Workshops for traders in Melton South and Scott Street with special guest Joanne Mutsaerts from Melton Police Station.

This week saw another milestone for Dexus’s Horizon 3023 development, as works kicked off on a 20,000 sqm Electrolux distribution centre. Standing at 13.7 metre high on a 37,500 sqm site, the warehouse will be a leader in Electrolux’s global warehousing operations.

The business community has welcomed the extension of the instant asset write-off program handed down in Tuesday night’s budget, but there’s no quick fix at hand for reopening international borders.

Here’s the biggest impacts of the 2021/22 Federal Budget for our local businesses.