Work together to build business

‘With heartbreaking flood damage and impacts felt across the districts, we again value the importance of staying connected and supporting each other.’

OUR THOUGHTS go out to all those in our region who have struggled through this horrendous weather and the associated flooding this month. We pay tribute to the emergency services, to the civil defence teams and all those individuals and families who have supported each other. With heartbreaking flood damage and impacts felt across the districts, we again value the importance of staying connected and supporting each other. For every challenge, we hear of a farmer, the emergency services or another family reaching out and offering support – working together. For the South Canterbury Chamber of Commerce, this connection was again reinforced by Canterbury Employers Chamber reaching out and offering support for our members, and Ara Institute of Canterbury and Air New Zealand also checking in. It is interesting to unpack how businesses benefit from working together and staying connected, and why businesses choose to become South Canterbury Chamber of Commerce members. In the end, it boils down to a sense of community – a deeper understanding that together we can achieve far more. That for over 110 years, businesses have worked together through the Chamber to support each other through economic booms and busts, and through the tribulations and opportunities that being a business owner creates. So, whether businesses join to boost their sales, or to educate and train their staff, or to support each other and ‘‘do business’’ with others that they know, or to advocate on matters of importance together, or to learn from each other, or to simply to understand that any eco-system is better connected, 530-plus businesses continue to support, meet up and network with each other, bring discounts and special offers to each other and to buy from each other through the Chamber. The South Canterbury Chamber of Commerce has stood the test of time and led by 10 very experienced business professionals intends to be here servicing the community for the next 100 years. So, when your business needs the connection the most, to set up clear health and safety systems, to implement a wellbeing programme, to tackle the challenges through Covid-19 or other daily issues in your business, the Chamber can provide the connections. Together we are building better business.