Chamber working to fund plan for helping small businesses succeed and create jobs


By Ted Hall President, Montcross Area Chamber


The Montcross Area Chamber has embarked on a five-year mission to create jobs in Gaston County by helping small businesses survive, succeed, expand and create jobs.


Eighty-four percent of the 321 members of the Montcross Area Chamber have 10 or fewer employees, and most have fewer than five. So working with and supporting small businesses here involves much more than a special focus during national Small Business Week; it is the every-hour-of-every-day mission of our Chamber.


The Chamber observed its 50th anniversary in 2010. Officers and members of the Board of Directors looked hard at the organization’s recent history and recognized that the past five years from 2005 through 2010 had been about survival, reorganization and renewal for the Chamber. After almost closing in 2005, the Chamber rebounded, growing from 84 to more than 300 members.


With the Chamber restored to financial health, officers looked to the future and to defining the Chamber’s purpose and mission.


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