Share your thoughts on your business and help shape the future of local business support in the City of Holdfast.

The City of Holdfast Bay has commissioned Intuito Market Research to conduct a study among businesses across the council precinct.

Your feedback is extremely valuable and will enable Council to assess the needs of the business community. This local business survey is conducted every two years, with the last survey conducted in the fourth quarter of 2023. When answering the questions, we encourage you to review the past 12 months and assess your business conditions accordingly.

The survey should be completed by a person of authority in your business (owner, manager, senior staff member) and should not take too much of your time. To thank you for your time and views, there is an opportunity at the end of the survey to enter a draw to win a $1,000 training package with a qualified business advisor from the Southern Business Mentoring Program.

Entry details will be separated from responses to ensure respondent anonymity.

If you have any questions related to the survey, please contact Intuito Market Research on 8331 2228 during office hours or email info@intuito.com.au. If you have any concerns relating to the content or validity of the survey, you can contact the City of Holdfast Bay Business Development Partner, Virginia Miller, on 8229 9883 or vmiller@holdfast.sa.gov.au.

Please note your responses will be 100% anonymous and confidential. Intuito Market Research abides by The Research Society's Privacy Code for Market and Social Research. All data gathered will be treated with the strictest confidentiality and will only be used for research purposes. Intuito is a member of The Research Society and works to the highest privacy standards.

This survey is open until 5pm Sunday 30 November 2025.

In October 2023, the fifth biennial Business Confidence survey was completed in Holdfast Bay with a representative sample of 303 businesses responding.

Business concerns shifted between 2021 and 2023 from workforce shortages to rising business costs. However, finding staff remained difficult for many sectors. Only a small number of businesses in 2023 had dealt with the Council, and their experience and levels of satisfaction were mostly better or equal. The trend was good.

Most notably, experience with delivering food safety /health inspections, as well as interaction with Business Development, has improved. Business valued assistance around government grants and/or subsidies the highest.

The future vision received good feedback, and it was clear that business largely considered the role for Council to be as collaborator, service provider and coordinator. There was a relatively low level of understanding of differential rates, and only two in ten businesses would use co-working spaces.