As part of the start of small business week, I attended the Sunshine Coast Small Business Awards Breakfast, as well as the Food Agribusiness (FAN) meet the makers event.
The Meet the Makers event was the biggest and best yet and wonderful to watch the FAN network grow substantially over the years, showcasing incredible Sunshine Coast produce and connecting retailers and suppliers.
FAN was also recently successful in receiving $33.4m in Federal Funding to develop be an industry-leading food and beverage manufacturing facility, called “Turbine” with a mega 20,000m2 purpose built, collaborative food and beverage manufacturing centre located at Sunshine Coast Airport. This facility will be operational by late 2023 and is a very exciting operation for the Sunshine Coast.
These events showcase just how integral small business and buying local is to our economy.
