Ararat will host the Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Crown Melbourne for the Regional Business Recovery Roadshow next month.
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Designed to help support Victorian regional businesses recover and rebuild as they grapple with ever changing conditions during a pandemic, the roadshow will visit Ararat on Thursday, August 12.
The seminar will offering advice on how to build new business pipelines and convert them, in order to help local farmers, suppliers and producers bounce back stronger from the pressures of the pandemic.
Leading business experts will be on hand at each event, including Con Barbakas, VCCI's Senior Health, Safety & Wellbeing Consultant, and Ben Briggs, Group General Manager of Procurement and Supply at Crown Resorts.
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They will present practical information and advice for local suppliers navigating the new normal of doing business during a pandemic, and how to future proof their businesses.
Leading Crown chefs will also tour with the roadshow in order to meet with producers and scope out potential new supplier sources.
"Victoria is home to some of the world's best produce and this roadshow provides an opportunity for our home-grown businesses to showcase their wares and also learn more about how they can upscale their operations by tapping into a huge consumer and customer base like Crown," Mr Guerra said.
"COVID-19 has created many challenges but has also revealed many opportunities and prompted us to focus on areas that we may have taken for granted, including the strength and reliability of our own food supply at a time of global uncertainty and international border closures.
"We have an opportunity now to harness and grow our domestic markets and nurture local supply chains which will benefit producers, purchases and consumers and, in turn, the broader Australian economy."
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