Promotions Centre

The Promotions Centre is your source of information, reports, publications, data and insight into Hastings County's economy and community. Information provided can assist in business decision making and is a resource for existing businesses & the community-at-large.

Action Plan

Economic Development Action Plan: Hastings County's Plan for Economic Development, "A Future Full of Potential" 2009 to 2012, can be downloaded by clicking here.

Situation Analysis: Accompanying our Plan is a detailed Situation Analysis containing valuable information and statistics. A copy can be downloaded by clicking here.

Marketing Plan

Attracting new investment: Our County just adopted a new Investment Marketing Strategy. A copy can be downloaded by clicking here. It's a large file so you have to download it in a zipped folder. Our new new investment campaign logo is displayed below.

Creative Rural Economy

Hastings County's Creative Economy: For a 1-page profile, click here.

North Hastings Cultural Plan: Click here to download a copy (PDF zipped file)

Hastings County & Quinte Region 10-year Cultural Plan: Click here for the adopted and approved Plan. Or, download the Key Findings & Strategic Directions Report here.

Study on Ontario East: A study completed for the Ontario East Economic Development Commission was completed in 2009. Download a copy by clicking here and a slide presentation is available here.

Local Food

Processing local Hastings' grown product: Download a copy of our report on processing local Hastings County food by clicking here.

Harvest Hastings: Visit www.harvesthastings.ca for information on who's growing locally and where to buy local food.

Local Food Survey: We completed a survey of our local food industry in 2011. Here is a copy of the final report including some recommendations. Neighbouring Counties and Cities also completed surveys, and here is a copy of the combined results.

Microbrewing

Microbrewing in Hastings County: There is a great opportunity for someone to open a brewery in Hastings County. To read a business case prepared by fourth year Queen's University Commerce students, please click here.

Business Retention & Expansion

Action plan for business retention & expansion: Find out what what we are doing to support local businesses by clicking here.

Profile of the County

Community Profile 2010: Download the complete document by clicking here.

One-page profile: Download a 1-page profile of the County in Eastern Ontario by clicking here.

Member municipalities: For detailed information and statistics on our 14 member municipalities, please visit this site (a new window will open).

Tourism

Tourism Strategy: We are currently in the midst of completing the Province of Ontario's Premier-ranked Tourist Destinations Framework.

To download a copy of the presentation to County Council, go here.

To download a (zipped) copy of the Premier-ranked Tourism Master Plan, go here.

For more information please visit our site www.premierranked.com

Artisan Cheese

Invest in Cheese: We are a founding and active member of the new invest in cheese marketing initiative and have branded our area as Ontario's Artisan Cheese Region. For more information, or to invest, please visit www.investincheese.ca