Logan businesses are already preparing for the 2032 Olympic Games with exclusive access to free one-on-one business coaching.
The 2023 Growing Queensland Business Roadshows is touring the state teaching tips and tricks to businesses ahead of the Olympics and made its first stop in Logan last week.
It featured a range of expert guests that provided local business owners with a guide to ensure they are “match fit” for the Olympics.
There were representatives from Logan City Council, delegates from Business Chamber Queensland, and Australian government representatives from the Departments of Finance and Defence.
Local MP and Minister for Procurement, Mick de Brenni, was also there to teach businesses how the state government would help prepare them.
“We want to ensure our local businesses are primed and positioned and are match-fit and take advantage of every exciting opportunity ahead,” he said.
“Local Logan businesses will be on the global stage during the Games, and the Palaszczuk Government’s $180 billion Buy Queensland procurement pipeline will present great opportunities for our winning businesses to grow like never before.
“The local spirit of giving back pervades every corner of our community and I know so many of our local businesses support and sponsor local sporting clubs.”
The ‘Buy Queensland’ policy requires all government agencies, statutory bodies, and publicly owned entities to consider how to support local jobs, local business opportunities and high ethical standards when deciding on business tenders.
Local businesswoman Karen Seage, owner and manager of Snap Printing Underwood said she understood the benefit of the policy.
She credited her businesses’ success to becoming a major supplier for the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
“After we proved ourselves with several printing contracts associated with the Games, I was able to grow my business,” Ms Seage said.
“Our main priority now is to support Queensland businesses, by bringing them along with us, especially Indigenous businesses.
Ms Seage is a Noonuccal woman from Minjerribah.
“The Buy Queensland approach really instilled in me the need to support local,” she said.
“The more work I get, the more work I can pass on to local Indigenous businesses.”
