Maleny Commerce Update

by President Spencer Shaw

Cyclone Alfred almost made it to shore in early March, and although it became an ex-cyclone before making landfall, heavy rain still made its way to the hinterland, with serious flooding at Nambour. Our thoughts are with the businesses and residents of Nambour and wish them well in their recovery.

The main impacts to businesses in Maleny appear to have been the loss of trade on the Thursday, Friday and Saturday before the ex-cyclone rolled in. We have circulated an email to our membership with links to financial assistance from State and Federal Governments that may be able to assist business owners and in particular casual employees.

Congratulations to Spill Wine, it’s great to see Chef and co-owner Jamie will be back again in this season’s MasterChef, bringing a bit more magic to Maleny with this great food and wine destination on the national stage!

The other co-owner is Clare, who has just joined the Maleny Commerce management committee and brings new young energy to our team. Keep your eye out for the survey that Clare has put together from the team, to help focus our work over the next few years in ways that best serve our business community, please make the time to complete it.

Check out our new website which was launched in February with a new logo and branding, designed and developed by our Adrian Anderson. We have Bunya trees back on the logo and I’m very happy to be seeing our iconic tree back where it belongs!

The new website is designed to provide a one-stop platform to support our businesses and allows for promotion of what is happening in Maleny and surrounds, and how our businesses can participate in events and what visitors to Maleny can see, do and experience.

One of the exciting features is that our members can upload their own newsworthy stories directly to the site.

Keep up the good business Maleny.

Cheers, Spencer