Brazeau County

The Economic Development Department of Brazeau County is progressive and award winning with focus on Business Attraction, Business Retention & Community Sustainability strategies.  Our Business Visitation Plan/Import Replacement Survey has been duplicated by many other economic development organizations around the Province.  The very successful 100K Kitchen Party Program has received numerous marketing awards and gained international recognition.  We offer our Brazeau County Businesses free marketing through our website Business Directory and our Home Based and Agricultural Business Directory.  Our services to our businesses include referral services and annual networking opportunities.

With a solid industry based of oil & gas, forestry and agriculture, we are working with the emerging industries of tourism and bio fuels.

Our Economic Profile provides a well-rounded, accurate and up-to-date statistical database on the area.

 Economic Profile 2011

Brazeau County is publishing a Business Newsletter which can be downloaded by clicking the link below.

 Business Newsletter Edition 06 January 2012
 Business Newsletter Edition 5 October
 Business Newsletter Edition 4 July.pdf
 Business Newsletter Edition 3 April.pdf
 Business Newsletter Edition 2 January.pdf
 Business Newsletter Edition October 1.pdf

For more information, contact the Director of Economic Development at 780-542-7777.

To those businesses who participated in the Business Visitation Program (BVP), thank you so much for your amazing participation in this project!  Without your participation our work in Economic Development is similar to throwing arrows at a dart board.  If we want to retain our businesses and attract new ones that will compliment them then we need to know the details of who, what, when, where and how.  The most intelligent way to gather this information is to ask the experts—the businesses themselves.  Our businesses in Brazeau County gave us invaluable information that we will put into programming for Business Retention and Attraction strategies.This year was very exciting because the Town chose to join in and do their first BVP, as did the Village of Breton.  This time, our BVP will represent the region and show a more comprehensive snapshot of our entire business community.The data was sent to a company called MillierDickensonBlais who will analyze all the data and compile a report with recommendations to the Municipalities on the potential red flags and programs to offset those issues.  That final report will be available in July as a downloadable .pdf on this website and you as the participating businesses will be notified when it is available.

There was a section of the survey that dealt specifically with the satisfaction of the businesses and the services delivered by Brazeau County, recommendations for budget priorities, etc.  That report is completed now and is available in downloadable format by clicking on the link below.  For further information about the program, you may contact Kelly or Angie at 780-542-7777.

 Report to Brazeau Council re Brazeau Specific Questions         

 Business Visitation FInal Report