The Wyoming Business Council
The Wyoming Business Council facilitates the growth of Wyoming’s economy. The Business Council helps to retain and expand existing Wyoming businesses and industries; recruits industries and their support businesses to the state; and works with communities to develop infrastructure to become business-ready.
The Council is the intermediary between businesses, development organizations, and government agencies. The Council engages these entities to work together on development projects. One function of the Business Council is to help fund and coordinate with the University of Wyoming business start-up, retention, and expansion programs including the Small Business Innovation Research, Small Business Development Centers, Manufacturing Works, and Wyoming Market Research Center.
The Wyoming Business Council provides six Regional Offices in the state to act, among many other tasks, as direct business consultants and WBC service liaisons. The Wyoming Business Council also provides financial assistance in the form of loan participations and guarantees for expanding Wyoming employers. Financial assistance can also be gained indirectly for expanding businesses in through the Business Committed Grant Program. These funds provide grant funding to local governments to provide infrastructure including streets, sewers and actual facilities, which can be designated for the benefit of a specific expanding business.
The Wyoming Business Council also established an International Trade Development function to link Wyoming firms with new markets overseas, promote foreign investments, provide protocol, education and export promotion assistance.
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