Vision Food Innovations is on a mission to support a more sustainable food system by using upcycled ingredients and reducing its carbon footprint.

An innovative producer of plant-based, vegan, baked treats for the mainstream market, Vision is reducing food waste by using byproducts sourced from other food producers as key ingredients. Vision Food Innovations’ location in Halton Hills’ Georgetown Industrial Area has allowed the company to leverage sector-specific innovation ecosystem partners in the area, including participating in the Circular Opportunity Innovation Launchpad (COIL) initiative based in nearby Guelph. COIL accelerates the growth of new circular economy innovations and businesses across southern Ontario in the food and environment sectors.

To learn more about Halton Hills’ excellent access to North America’s major markets and innovation corridor's visit investhaltonhills.com/location.

Are you looking to promote an event or offering that your business is running? Promote it through the Visit Halton Hills Tourism Tuesday spotlight series!

Tourism Tuesday is designed to help highlight local tourism business offerings, such as seasonal happenings, events, and attractions throughout the Town of Halton Hills. The series will allow business owners the opportunity to increase visibility and brand awareness by collaborating with the Town of Halton Hills tourism brand, Visit Halton Hills. Spotlights will be featured on Visit Halton Hills digital platforms until November 26, 2024.

Attention artist, artist teams, and artist collectives! Lead an interactive activity in Halton during Culture Days this fall. Proposals may include interactive art projects, hands-on workshops, and/or interactive performances. Hosted by the municipalities of Halton and Halton Region Heritage Services.

Total project budget: up to $6,000

Application deadline: July 31, 2024

The Smart Commute program provides tools and resources to support and incentivize cycling, walking, carpooling, public transit, and alternative working arrangements (e.g., remote work) as sustainable options for commuting.

Through this customized, year-round program, your workplace employees can commute more sustainably, reducing their parking demand and commuting costs, and helping you attract and retain key talent.

Smart Commute Halton Municipalities is offering a free one-year trial of the program to qualifying workplaces. 

How It Works: 

1. Pick up your Sticker Map from any participating Town facility location. 
2. Travel around Georgetown, Acton, and Glen Williams and collect one mini sticker from a participating business from each location and put them on your big map sticker map.   
3. Stick your completed map on your water bottle, bike, computer, helmet, or wherever you'd like. 
4. Take a photo of your completed sticker map and upload it to visithaltonhills.ca/stickersubmission for a chance to win 1 of 3 grand prize packs!  
5. Show us your adventure by tagging @visthaltonhills on social or using #visithaltonhills.

 Halton Region

Starter Company Plus Competition

 Pitch Competition

New Business Spotlight:

Gelato Shop Opens in Georgetown

Advanced Manufacturing Innovation and Competitiveness (AMIC) Fund Now Open 

The Advanced Manufacturing and Innovation Competitiveness (AMIC) stream is a funding stream for medium size or smaller companies seeking to improve their competitiveness by investing in technology, equipment, reshoring manufacturing, or skills.

Types of Funding

Loans:

Up to 15% of eligible costs up to a max of $5 million (interest-free for the project period; interest applied during repayment) with potential to forgive 30% or up to $500,000 if targets are met.

Grants:

Only available for small companies (less than 100 FTEs) in rural locations or qualifying special projects, to a maximum of $500,000. A $1.5 million grant may be available in limited circumstances.

Applications accepted now until September 26, 2024. 

Halton Employers: Take the Halton Region 2024 Employment Survey

Are you a business owner in Halton? Halton Region is conducting their annual Employment Survey. Your input will help monitor regional employment activities and trends and inform policy decisions to support future economic growth in Halton.

Here's what you need to know:

• The survey will take about five minutes to complete.
• The survey will be open until September 30, 2024.
• Survey results will be reported through our annual Employment Survey Results report in 2025. We will also share the data with our Local Municipalities (the City of Burlington and the Towns of Halton Hills, Milton and Oakville).
• Your responses will not be disclosed publicly, unless required to do so by law. Responses will be grouped together and no individual company will be identified.

Halton Region Survey Team:

The Region will also be reaching out to local business owners in-person, by phone or by email through a team of nine Regional Employment Surveyors. If you are unsure whether a surveyor is a Halton Region employee, please call 311 or 905-825-6000 to confirm. Alternatively, you can ask for the Employment Surveyor to contact you using a verified Halton email address.

Halton Hills Economic Development Services

The Town of Halton Hills Economic Development division, Invest Halton Hills, provides a full suite of high-quality services and supports to the business community that in turn foster a prosperous economy and enhance quality of life.

Invest Halton Hills supports and services include:

• Financial incentives via the Community Improvement Plan (CIP)
• Business retention and expansion (BR&E) programming
• Investment attraction, expansion, and relocation
• Business concierge service
• Site selection assistance
• Market research
• Industry engagement
• Workforce development
• Supporting and advancing affordable housing projects and initiatives
• Amplifying tourism’s economic benefits

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