(Spencer)– While the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is continuing to present countless challenges to area businesses, Kiley Miller, President and CEO of the Iowa Lakes Corridor Development Corporation, says it could also present opportunities for some…
“One of the things that emerges in a lot of discussion, and you can read about this is the national news, about how companies, national, international companies, are going to re-think their supply chains and their service systems because they discovered how vulnerable they were to single points of failure. You know, one factor closes down, one port closes down, and now they can’t get an essential product. So what does that mean for the Iowa Lakes Corridor? Well it could mean opportunity in areas like distribution, added manufacturing, certainly in health and wellness, vaccines, food processing. So we’re really trying to figure out what’s the next big growth opportunity.”
And when it comes to re-starting things on the other side, Miller says NOW is the time to start preparing, even though the pandemic is still underway…
“You know I’ve heard some people say it’s too early to plan. I don’t know what too early to plan means. No, we don’t know what the Governor will do as far as re-starting the economy, what the federal government will do. But we do know that there’s going to have to be steps taken at the local level to re-start, kind of refresh consumer confidence and re-build that consumer confidence and we need to be planning for that now.”
Miller urges business owners in the region needing help with things along that line to contact the Corridor office at 712-264-3474.
