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The Department of Business and Innovation (DBI) helps grow Victoria’s diverse and vibrant economy by supporting pro-business policies and programs and the development of innovative industries.

DBI engages with businesses and represents their needs to all levels of government; provides strategic economic planning advice and targeted business development assistance; encourages investment and trade; and markets Victoria in Australia and internationally.

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Minister for Technology Gordon Rich-Phillips at GlaxoSmithKline’s Boronia plant. GSK investment to create jobs, opportunities

Leading international pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has announced it will invest $60 million to expand its largest Australian facility at Boronia in Melbourne’s east, creating 58 new highly-skilled jobs by 2017.

A More Competitive Manufacturing Industry highlight New Directions for Manufacturing

The Minister for Manufacturing, Exports and Trade, Richard Dalla-Riva released A More Competitive Manufacturing Industry: New Directions for Industry Policy and Manufacturing. Mr Dalla-Riva said that the new manufacturing strategy would foster a more productive and competitive manufacturing businesses in Victoria.