Friday, 4 December 2020
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Maleny Businesses surviving and thriving Whilst 2020 has been a difficult year for most local businesses and as the year comes to an end many businesses are looking back to see where they could improve their services and are in fact expanding.
work on the new café and fromagerie and will be bringing a bigger and brighter store, a new menu and more of our signature gelato and sorbet for which The Maleny Food Company has become well known.
This is in contrast to many Queensland companies who are continuing to collapse by the dozen despite the state’s economy slowly recovering from the devastating COVID-19 shutdown.
Maleny Newsagency has already moved into what was originally the old post office building in Maple Street.
A number of local businesses have taken some of the down time to actually expand. Maple Street Co-op which is a member own organic retail outlet and has traded in Maple Street Maleny for over 41 years. It has now expanded into the premises next door which previously was the premises of Colin James fine foods. Colin James fine foods has now moved down the road into the former Maleny Newsagency building at 29 Maple Street. This business is now known as Maleny Food Company. The Team is super excited to get to
Each of these businesses are making moves in order to expand but they are not the only ones to expand.
has expanded into the neighbouring shop and will expand trading to include a late night venue, something that Maleny has lacked up to now. And that is not all - around in Coral Street new owners of Maleny Hardware and Rural Supplies, Andrea and Mark Porter have also been busy reviewing their services and products thus they are now stocking a much larger range of rural products and domestic hardware item both for agriculture and the home DIY’er.
Across the road from Maleny Street Co-Op is the popular Shotgun Coffee Shop & Cafe. Owner Kelly Robson said that they were expanding into a neighbouring vacant shop at two
Mark said that they have now also installed a well stocked garden section. This has come at a time when the COVID 19 lockdown led many people to look towards starting or improving their home gardens.
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