Ashburton District possesses many key strengths for supporting existing, new or relocating businesses…

• A forward thinking elected Council and supporting executive, independently selected as the most progressive provincial Council in New Zealand in 2004.
  
• Co-operative local business community
  
• Recently approved 126 ha strategically positioned industrial estate
  
• Readily available and competitively priced industrial and prime agricultural land
  
• Competitively priced energy
  
• Irrigation supply commanding 48% of the plains area (122,000 hectares)
  
• State of the art agricultural service industry
  
• Strategically located service centres
  
• Major eco tourism opportunities
  
• Competitive service costs
  
• Information, advice and assistance to help new industry and enterprise
  
• A proposed District wide water storage project will secure future development and the enhancement of rivers for recreation and wildlife preservation
  
• Enterprise Ashburton, through Film South New Zealand Trust, promote Canterbury as a film friendly location