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Darebin Enterprise Centre
Ltd assists entrepreneurs, owners, and managers to establish new
businesses, review their current operations, develop strategic
direction and plan for future growth.
Services provided
include:
- Strategic Review
- Business Planning
- Business
Incubation
- Business training, mentoring
and coaching
- Access to administrative
services and facilities
- Access to networks
- Assistance to access
capital
DECL's current client base
includes:
- 43 businesses located at its
Small Business Incubator in Alphington. These include
manufacturing, light industrial, IT, service and horticultural
enterprises.
- More than 60 off-site
enterprises.
- Indigenous (Aboriginal) owned
enterprises in Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania and the Northern
Territory.
DECL business consultants have
worked with principals and managers from micro to small
enterprises across a range of sectors including:
- Automotive
component
- Furniture
- Horticulture
- Aquaculture
- Pastoralism
- Food Processing
- Textile &
Clothing
- Concrete Products
- Alternative Energy
Since 1998 DECL has:
- Graduated more than 55
businesses from the Incubator.
- Assisted more than 400
businesses across Australia.
Awards that Darebin Enterprise
has received include:
Incubator of the Year
2008 - nontechnology category (NBIA - International Award)
Incubator of the Year
2007 (BIIA
- Australia)
Graduate Business of the
Year 2007 (BIIA
- Australia) Charles
Sandford Woodturning Pty Ltd
Tenant Business of the Year
2007 (BIIA
- Australia) Gourmet
Lovers Pty Ltd
Graduate of the Year
2005(BIIA
- Australia) Practical Ecology Pty Ltd
Innovation Award
2005 (BIIA - Australia)
Graduate Business of the
Year 2004(BIIA
- Australia)Metropolitan Tree Growers Pty Ltd
Minister’s Award for
Outstanding Achievement (National Incubator of the Year)
2001. (BIIA - Australia)
Highly Commended
Award 2000 (BIIA - Australia)
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