Business Retention & Expansion

The Business Retention & Expansion program, sponsored by the Yukon Government - Department of Economic Development, works with existing businesses in the Whitehorse community and aims to gather information and opinions about hindrances and enablers of doing business in Yukon.  With your help, we hope to be able to collect all this data and help implement economic goals and strategies to improve Whitehorse's business climate and economic development efforts. In other words, this program strives to make Whitehorse more business friendly.

Studies have shown that existing firms are an important source of future economic growth. This Business  Retention & Expansion program is seen to be one means of proactively supporting and helping existing businesses and  thereby fostering the improvement of the local economy.

Business, government and other sectors from within the territory have agreed to work on this  project in an attempt to assist local businesses and to strengthen the territory's private sector. The project is a cooperative effort involving volunteers drawn from local businesses, government  agencies, and economic development organizations.

Confidentiality - The Volunteer Visitors commit to the principle of confidentiality. Your responses  will be summarized with those of others in the form of totals, percentages and averages. The  completed surveys, without identifiers, will be forwarded for analysis to the Yukon Government - Department  of Economic Development

The SURVEY

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OR  download the survey (links below) fill it out and email it back to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

All businesses that complete a survey will be entered in a draw for the chance to win one of three gift certificates of their choice worth $250, $150, or $100.

Business Survey 2012 (pdf)

Business Survey 2012 (word)

Objectives

The objectives of the initiative are:
1. To identify the needs, concerns and opportunities of existing businesses, in order that,  where appropriate, action can be taken to respond to the business needs or development  opportunities.
2.To learn of the future plans of the territory's small and medium businesses with  respect to expansion, relocation and/or retention and assess needs of the industry.
3.To demonstrate the Chamber's pro-business attitude and to develop an effective means of  communication with local businesses.

If you would like to schedule an interview time to complete this survey with one of our volunteers or if you have any questions, or concerns relating to the Business Retention & Expansion Program or this survey please contact the Business Coordinator Alyssa Beckett.