Grow Your Business

Project Aim

The Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development offers a range of planning and management services and advice and support to assist Victorian firms to develop and implement strategies to become internationally competitive.

The Grow Your Business program includes:

• Grow Your Business - Business Development Plan
• Grow Your Business - Business Strategic Review
• Grow Your Business - Group Programs
• Grow Your Business - Networks Program

Nature of Assistance

Eligible businesses can apply for a grant to engage the services of an independent specialist to undertake

• the Business Strategic Review, an analysis of where the company has come from, and/or
• the Business Development Plan, which assists organisations to pinpoint where they want to go and how they are going to get there

Other services facilitated through the Grow Your Business program include:

• Group Programs
• Networks Program
• Supply Chain Management

Eligibility Criteria

The principle criteria for assistance are:

• the company is financially viable with a manufacturing or services base in Victoria
• the company has export and/or import replacement potential

To be eligible for individual funding under the Grow Your Business program, businesses should:

• be based in Victoria, or intend to locate in Victoria
• have management strengths
• be financially viable
• be committed to strategic planning and growth
• have commitment to innovation and/or potential for export/import replacement
• have been trading at least 12 months, or
• be an exceptional new business that has been trading at least six months, and has either a professional business plan or has attended a Going into Business workshop

Contact

Victorian Business Line
Tel: 13 22 15