Whether you're buying or selling, thinking local can be better. Better for your business, and better for the local economy.

Why Think Local?

Think Local is a business initiative for southern Staffordshire led by five Local Authorities and the Staffordshire Chambers of Commerce and Industry. It encourages the public sector and private companies to buy local; giving local businesses every opportunity to prove their value and succeed. Since its launch in the Lichfield District in late 2003, Think Local has steadily expanded into neighbouring areas in partnership with local authorities and Chambers of Commerce. Today, it's a major resource and source of support for businesses across southern Staffordshire.

Better for your business:

• Better exposure
  By joining Think Local you can advertise your business free to thousands of others in the area. Our marketing campaign will make sure that people throughout the region will be searching the Think Local database for companies like yours, every day.

• Better opportunities
  New customers could be right on your doorstep. Great suppliers could be just around the corner. Potential business partners might be waiting for your call. Think Local is a ready-made database of contacts to network and share information with.

• Better information
  Take advantage of an invaluable new source of local business news, advice and support - everything from events to funding. Our website even tells you how close you are to potential new customers and suppliers.

• Better efficiencies
  Doing business locally makes good business sense - better use of time, faster response, and easier customer care. Travel, logistics, communications and sub-contracting all get quicker, easier, and cheaper.

Better for the local economy

Keeping it local is better in so many ways. Better for inward and indigenous investment, and more sustainable for the local environment with customers and workforces close by. With money and jobs maintained locally, we can ensure a quality economic growth area with an active business community, encouraging new enterprise and start-up businesses.

Join today, it's FREE!!

Joining is dead easy. All you need to do is sign up to the Think Local website. It only takes a couple of minutes to register online.

And then - just as important - remember to keep it local! Whether you're buying or selling ... think local first.

For a detailed version of the map, showing the smaller towns and villages, please click on the following link: Detailed Think Local map