Online survey planned for Neepawa businesses
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- Published on Thursday, January 15, 2015
By Eoin Devereux
The Neepawa Banner
A new online survey aims to learn more about Neepawa’s business community. The Neepawa Chamber of Commerce along with town council are organizing the initiative.
Mayor Adrian de Groot said the purpose of the survey is to create a new database of information that identifies exactly the types of businesses that are a part of the region and the challenges they face.
“The survey could look at employee retention and attraction; you know, things like that. Are those issues that businesses are dealing with? It’s good to find out where those areas are. As well as finding out where there are opportunities to help either expand or strengthen and meet the needs of local businesses,” said de Groot. "We want to be supportive as far as identifying some of the needs and some of those concerns that are out there.”
De Groot noted that the hope of Neepawa council and administration is that this survey will establish a stronger working relationship between the town and the local business community.
“It’s good to have a strong working relationship. A healthy relationship between the municipality and business,” said de Groot. “You know, one can not exist without the other and it’s part of the framework of the community. We are blessed with a lot of small businesses, not only in Neepawa itself, but certainly in the immediate surrounding area. There is a significant entrepreneurship and this partnership can aid us in supporting those entrepreneurs and those small businesses within the community.“
The survey questions are currently in development and will be distributed through the Neepawa Chamber of Commerce to its membership in the near future. De Groot added that once the information is gathered, it will be available to council, in order to learn how they can best address the issues facing their business community.
"We want to send a message that we want to support [local businesses] as much as we can,” said de Groot.
A link to the survey can be seen at http://www.neepawa.ca/notices_detail.asp?notice_ID=320
