C.B.N. has its own chamber of commerce, with plans to bring entrepreneurs, communities together

Elizabeth Whitten · CBC News

· Posted: Jul 03, 2025 2:50 PM EDT | Last Updated: July 3

A recently launched task successful Conception Bay North isn't aiming to reinvent the wheel, but go a hub of accusation that entrepreneurs and assemblage members tin entree with the extremity of boosting the area's economy.

"It's fundamentally conscionable a assemblage and concern led enactment wherever we're going to cod each the accusation for concern owners and the community-minded radical astir to amended the economical health … of the area," Corinne Reid, Cape Alliance Chamber of Commerce vice-president, told CBC Radio's The St. John's Morning Show.

"We're inactive growing, each day."

The organization launched past period with 20 members, Reid said. About 40 much businesses are showing involvement successful signing up.

"We're present successful the process of trying to get everybody signed up and get their rank fees paid, and that mode they person entree to the benefits," said Reid.

The Cape Alliance Chamber of Commerce is holding its first nationalist gathering connected Thursday successful Carbonear, which Reid said she hopes volition help grow the membership. 

She said Atlantic Chamber of Commerce CEO Rhonda Lane-Tulk will beryllium determination to help go implicit the basics of what a enclosure of commerce is, what they connection and reply questions.

Further, determination volition beryllium others astatine the gathering to answer questions astir wellness benefits for members.

"Our website volition beryllium launching shortly, truthful it'll beryllium an day of a wealthiness of accusation for everybody involved," said Reid.

"The connection is getting retired there."

Outdated information

Reid said towns and work districts person outdated accusation connected their websites about what businesses are operating successful their regions. 

"We emailed astir 300 radical and possibly 20 per cent of those came backmost arsenic the email … no longer existed," she said.

She said having up to day accusation has been a large interest that concern owners person raised with the enclosure of commerce.

It's also a interest during the mediate of tourism play where travellers mightiness not beryllium capable to get close accusation astir services, Reid said, adding the enclosure of commerce wants to enactment with towns to hole that problem.

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