Business Retention and Expansion

Chilliwack Business Link
Chilliwack Business Link is a business retention and expansion program developed to assist the growth of local businesses, and at the same time, complement Chilliwack Economic Partners Corporation’s (CEPCO) business attraction programs.

The Chilliwack Business Link program provides CEPCO with the ability to establish key relationships with existing business contacts, conduct research on the local business environment, and increase the exposure of our community as a place for job creation and community investment. The groundwork completed has enabled CEPCO to carry forward business retention and expansion projects in a manner that will benefit the community in the long term.

CEPCO implemented the Chilliwack Business Link program as an innovative and successful labour market partnership, and was the recipient of the 2007 Business Retention and Expansion International (BREI) award for cities with a population over 50,000.

This innovative program provides a structured mechanism to combine the resourcefulness and productivity of the small and medium-size enterprises with the strength and expertise of the public sector community. The outcome of this partnership is sector-focused strategies that strengthen Chilliwack’s labour market conditions and assist businesses by improving their capacity to grow, enhance productivity, and maintain / create jobs.

For more detailed information about the Chilliwack Business Link program, please call the CEPCO office at 604-792-7839.