Start a Business New Brunswick

Start a Business New Brunswick may be the solution to attracting highly skilled employees and decreasing your investment and operating costs.

There is growing evidence that university graduates want less stress in the working place and ample time to enjoy life. Relocating your business to New Brunswick could be the solution to their concerns.

Operating a business in New Brunswick has many benefits:

• Low cost bilingual labor supply
• Government funding available
• Safe place for workers and their families to live
• Abundance of fresh air and water
• Nature’s playground in your backyard
• Excellent Universities and Research facilities
• Canada has a strong economy and stable government

Explore the following links to get more detailed information on markets, labour, incorporation, etc.

Starting a Business in New Brunswick

Get started:

• Contact your Enterprise Agency first.
• Conduct Market Research.
• Access Labour and Training Resources.
• Use the Business Start-Up Checklist from Canada Business Service Centre.
• Business Incorporation Frequently Asked Questions.

Online services:

• Service New Brunswick offers information and resources to search and incorporate/ register a company in New Brunswick.
• BizPal offers access to online business permits and licences.

Additional Resources:

• Financial Assistance to start your business.
• Business Planning Tools.
• Check out other useful Resources and Tools to help you be successful in business.

You will find generous financial assistance as well as planning details to help you get started and make it feasible start a business in New Brunswick, Canada.

Financial assistance for New Brunswick companies to be more successful.

Business New Brunswick offers financial assistance programs to assist businesses in establishing, maintaining, growing and improving their productivity and export efforts:

• Growing your business
• Starting a business

Growing your business

• Small Business Loan Guarantee Program (SBLGP) - a new program to help increase access to credit for small- and medium-sized businesses. The Program is delivered by your local Caisse Populaires and Credit Unions, in partnership with Business New Brunswick.
• New Brunswick Growth Program - the objectives of the program are:
  - To create sustainable employment opportunities in New Brunswick by financially stimulating small businesses to pursue opportunities within targeted sectors of the economy.
  - To stimulate capital investment for small business start-up, expansion, diversification, innovation and productivity improvement.
  - Application form (PDF format)
  
  
  
• Financial Assistance to Industry Program (FAIP) provides funding for capital expenditures and working capital to enable the establishment, expansion or maintenance of eligible industries.
  - Application form (PDF format)
  
  
  
• Technology Adoption and Commercialization Program provides assistance to manufacturers, processors and selected services firms to help address the gap in financial support of the technological innovation and pre-commercial product development needs.
  - Application form (PDF format)
• Trade Assistance Program (TAP) introduces New Brunswick companies to exporting and assists in the development of "new" export markets outside Atlantic Canada.
  - Application form (PDF format)

Organize your support team to help get your business started.  The small business person should choose his or her advisors carefully from the start up; consider your accountant, banker, lawyer, insurance agent and personal financial planner as your board of directors. Do not make any major decision without first consulting with each of them. You should receive common strands of advice, but you make the final decision. Orgainize your support team in one of the following cities in New Brunswick:

Moncton
Fredericton
Saint John
Dieppe
Miramichi