Deadline: 12 June 2024
Apply for the Storefront Excellence Program that provides retailers with evidence-based advice and support to improve their visual merchandising and overall retail marketing.
Funding Information
- Program participants will receive free expert advice from a visual merchandising specialist on their physical and virtual stores/shopfront, and up to $2000 (ex. GST) for them to action any suggested recommendations.
- Effective visual merchandising shapes the customer experience by helping a store stand out, attract shoppers, and generate more sales.
Benefits
- Help your business become more inviting and to stand out from the crowd.
- Improves brand awareness of your business.
- Improve your store’s online presence.
- Increase sales volume.
- Creates a vibrant retail streetscape.
- Creates a stimulating, engaging and positive shopping experience, encouraging customers to spend more time in store.
- Maximises the efficiency of your floor space.
Who can apply?
- Businesses physically located in the City of Hobart Local Government Area (LGA) with a permanent shopfront.
- Small independent businesses (defined as employing fewer than 20 full time equivalent staff) or not-for-profit organisations, incorporated associations, or charities where trading activities within the Hobart LGA are a substantial part of the organisation’s activities.
- Businesses with an active Australian Business Number (ABN) that is registered in Tasmania.
- Businesses that retails goods that are not consumed or used onsite.
- Applications must be submitted by the business owner/manager/appropriate signatory and not a third party (i.e. an accountant).
- Businesses currently trading (as of 1 April 2024).
For more information, visit City of Hobart.
