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Welcome to Shire Business a guide for doing business in Sutherland Shire

Doing Business in Sutherland Shire

The Economic Development Unit (EDU) is a Business Unit of Sutherland Shire Council (SSC) and this website has been set up to offer information on the local economy, business networking and statistics.  To read more about the EDU click here

 

HOME BASED BUSINESS SURVEY

The EDU thanks you for taking part in our Home Based Business Survey.

The WINNERS of our prizes are:

* Beachhaven Bed & Breakfast prize won by Gary Nickless from Nelson International Pty Ltd -

www.lifestyleclotheslines.com.au, www.urbanclotheslines.com

* Quest Apartments prize won by Manny Winkler from Premier Flooring Pty Ltd

* The Ridge Golf Driving Range prize won by Robert Stammel from Valok Global Midrange Software Solutions - http://www.valok.com.au

 

IMAGE GALLERY

Pictures say a thousand words view our image gallery and see pictures from the Marine Industry, Conferences held and General Shire photos.

 

Students

This website is a great information portal for students to read real life business information. We welcome student enquiries - get in contact with us today.

We encourage you to provide feedback, suggestions or other useful information that might be added to this site.

 

Sutherland Economic Portrait 

The Economic Development Unit received a fantastic report this week - the Sutherland Economic Portrait. The report covers the Sutherland Economic Portrait (compared with Sydney) -it covers the workforce, the industries, types of businesses, occupations, characteristics of workers and labour supply and demand. This report is great for Businesses and for students (business, economics, geography, demography).

Take advantage of this up-to date information and get to know your Shire. 

Click here to read the Sutherland Economic Portrait

 

BUSINESS PLANS

Writing a business plan does not need to be hard, just click here and follow this Guide to Business Planning

Don't spend too long creating the "perfect" marketing or business plan. Many businesses get bogged down writing huge documents that never get implemented.  Remember a short plan that gets carried out completely is going to do your business a lot more good than a long plan that doesn't even make a practical start.

Source: Department of State and Regional Development 

 

BUSINESS STAFFING RESOURCES SURVEY

What is your opinion on skill shortages?

Click this link to complete the Skill Shortages Assesment survey       

 

Important: While all due care has been taken to ensure that the content of this website is accurate and current, there may be errors or omissions in it and no legal responsibility is accepted for the information and opinions in this website.

Business Building Workshop

31/03/2009  Regardless of the business that you are in you will have customers to find, service and retain. The following tips are from Denis Price at the Inside Retailing web site. Great advice applicable to all businesses.

The Seven Deadly Sins of Customers service 1. Fai...

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Business Development Week 2009

13/06/2009  9-13 June 2009. To be held at the SSHED & University of Wollongong Campus, Pitt Street, Loftus

BDW is a week of information sourcing & exchan...

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Council events calendar

30/12/2009  Sutherland Shire Council hosts business and networking events all year round. Business activity is an important part for the whole community. This calendar lists council-organised events for the community.

  For more events view the Counc...

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