Traditional Shopping Strips Fighting Back in Vic.

CBCV Community Business Centres Victoria Inc. is a non-profit group of business groups and individuals, who rely on membership to network and share ideas, contacts and opportunities for improving strip shopping centres.

Membership, they say, will benefit your business, your trader group, your organisation AND, most importantly, your traditional strip centre.

Many strip shopping centres have successfully fought back competition by the ‘hard top shopping centres’ by:

• creating their own niche and identity,
• by running joint promotions and combining trader funds, and sometimes
• by employing centre coordinators.

Member Benefits

• A regular newsletter
• Seminars and workshops tailored to the needs of small business and government in traditional shopping centres
• Technical assistance and advice on retailing trends, marketing and promotional ideas and approaches, special funding schemes, media and community relations, and training programs.
• Specialised advice on the development of business plans for strip centres.
• Contacts who have worked with strip shopping centres on revitalisation plans and capital works programs.
• Social networking opportunities
• Advocacy and representation to government
• Access to the CBCV web site, and the impending development of a members only knowledge base and resource centre.