b2b

b2b - Business to Ballarat is Commerce Ballarat's local media campaign aimed at keeping spending locally, it also has a strong focus on the business to business dollar.

Fact 51% of goods and services purchased by Ballarat businesses are sourced externally from Ballarat. Purchasing locally creates and retains local jobs. Reducing escape spending creates the opportunity to generate local jobs, leading to stimulation of our local economy. Shopping locally is convenient - it’s easier to get to and take away what you buy, and if you develop an issue with your goods, they can be easily returned and replaced.

Join our b2b Gold sponsors UGL, Tanya Daniels The Good Guys, Central Victorian Investments, Wilson's Fruit & Vegetables, RU Advertising and Sovereign Press, our Silver sponsor Ballarat Materials Handling Equipment and Bronze sponsors Premier PR in supporting local business. Help stop the $3.2 billion lost to the Ballarat economy in "leakage" each year. Give Ballarat businesses an opportunity and always try to buy local.

More information about b2b sponsorship packages is available here

b2b Gold Sponsors

Bill Gitsham: "It is important for companies like UGL to support local business, in this way we can give back to the community in which we operate and help generate and maintain jobs."

Tanya Daniels: "I believe a program like this builds strong relationships between local businesses, allowing them to network and share ideas. The greater Ballarat community will also benefit from reinvesting their spending into local businesses, which in turn will create more jobs and a stronger economy for all our futures."

Brendan Gillett: "As a long term sponsor of B2B we at Central Victorian Investments believe strongly

in supporting local businesses & financing local projects, just as our local investors have supported us over our 18 years."

Trevor Wilson: "Wilsons Fruit & Vegetables is proud to once again sponser b2b. As a third generation family business it is important to us that we support local business and keep business within Ballarat. Now more than ever it is important to work together to ensure Ballarat thriving and jobs remain available here in Ballarat. We wouldn’t be where are today without fellow local businesses and of course our valuable local customers"

Craig Willian: "Business to business is the life blood of provincial economies and an initiative such as b2b - business to Ballarat reinforces the message to always think local first to help keep our city alive and prospering."

Ross Wootton: "The flow on from b2b is so important to our family business and the growth of the City of Ballarat. Money spent locally retains jobs and allows local businesses to grow within our great city"