For businesses wanting to grow their city footprint and take their business to new heights, Invest Melbourne is your one-stop shop for success.
Invest Melbourne provides:
Melbourne represents only 3 per cent of Australia’s total land mass, but accounts for nearly 25 per cent of Australia’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
We boast a truly diversified economy and attract investment from all over the globe across many industries, including digital technologies, advanced manufacturing, health and life sciences, clean energy and research and development.
Melbourne has a workforce of more than 2.5 million people, and is home to 50 per cent of the nation’s leading universities including Melbourne University, Monash University, La Trobe University and RMIT.
Thirty per cent of international students study in Victoria and Melbourne leads the nation in yearly graduates of technology, business, engineering, education and health qualifications (under-graduate and post-graduate studies).
The cost of doing business in Melbourne is highly competitive to other eastern-seaboard cities, such as Sydney and Brisbane, boosting your business case feasibility.
Locating in Melbourne provides you access to substantial cost of doing business benefits, including staffing, occupancy, utilities, costs of living and more.
Melbourne is a leading capital city within the GMT+10 time zone. This positions Melbourne at the heart of a time zone region (two hours either side of GMT+10), that spans across Shanghai, Singapore, Hong Kong, the Philippines and large parts of Southeast Asia.
Melbourne is Australia’s freight and logistics hub and has several multi-modal logistics centres. We are home to Australia’s largest container port in both size and quantity, largest public transport system, most advanced road and rail infrastructure and Australia’s largest curfew-free freight and passenger airport connecting your business to the world 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Melbourne ranks among the safest cities in the Asia-Pacific region, and is one of the most liveable cities in the world.
Melbourne is one of the most cosmopolitan and multicultural cities in the world with people speaking more than 260 different languages and dialects. We have outstanding arts, food and wine, Australia’s best shopping, and diverse sporting and leisure opportunities. Melbourne is the nation’s events and cultural capital.
Invest Melbourne has a dedicated team of experienced advisers who are ready to help you with the following:
The City of Melbourne respectfully acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land we govern, the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong / Boon Wurrung peoples of the Kulin and pays respect to their Elders past and present. We acknowledge and honour the unbroken spiritual, cultural and political connection they have maintained to this unique place for more than 2000 generations.
We accept the invitation in the Uluru Statement from the Heart and are committed to walking together to build a better future.