By KATH GANNAWAY
WALK into any Bendigo Community Bank in the Yarra Valley and you are walking into a local small business.
As community-owned franchises of Bendigo Bank, each community bank business is a vital cog in its local business network.
In Healesville, Seville, Wandin, Warburton, Woori Yallock and Yarra Junction, Community Bank branch managers work with local small business operators every day – from the cafe owner down the road to the local hairdresser, accountant, transport operator, orchardist … and many more that make up the commercial heart of their communities.
Small business is a vital part of the profit generating banking that underpins what your local Community Bank is about – making better, more sustainable communities.
The Community Bank model is something that resonates with many small business operators.
It’s about enhancing the prospects of local communities, something that small businesses have been doing ever since the townships first started to spring up across the valley.
Underpinned with all the banking services of the Bendigo Bank – awarded ‘Business Bank of the Year’ by Roy Morgan for four years in a row – your local Community Bank is geared to meet all the banking needs of local small business.
The $20,000 immediate tax off-set announced in the Federal Budget in May puts local business operators in a good position over the next 12 months to look at cost effective ways of renewing or increasing equipment.
Competitive finance is available on products such as finance lease, asset purchases or an equipment loan to acquire anything from computers and cameras, to vehicles, office furniture, kitchen equipment, printers … anything used for running your business.
But it doesn’t stop there.
Bendigo Community Bank branches offer cash management accounts to suit every-day banking needs, ATM Card, internet and phone banking, business, personal and travel insurance.
Community Banks also have access to Bendigo’s highly qualified business bankers.
At Bendigo Community Bank branches the managers and friendly local staff make it their business to make your business the best it can be.
So, call for an appointment, or drop in to your local Bendigo Community Bank … and talk business.
