Welcome to LCOEB

Welcome to our website. LCOEB is a local community website in Limerick. It is aimed at supporting small business’s develop and we encourage the community on a whole to support that local business as they are slowly fading away in the face of big business. We would like to thank the support of Paving Dublin – Select Paving for there support on maintaining this website.

Here are some of the reasons to support local business:

1.  Local Character and Prosperity
In an increasingly homogenized world, communities that preserve their one-of-a-kind businesses and distinctive character have an economic advantage.

2.  Community Well-Being
Locally owned businesses build strong communities by sustaining vibrant town centers, linking neighbors in a web of economic and social relationships, and contributing to local causes.

3. Local Decision-Making
Local ownership ensures that important decisions are made locally by people who live in the community and who will feel the impacts of those decisions.

4.  Keeping Money in the Local Economy
Compared to chain stores, locally owned businesses recycle a much larger share of their revenue back into the local economy, enriching the whole community.

5.  Job and Wages
Locally owned businesses create more jobs locally and, in some sectors, provide better wages and benefits than chains do.

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6.  Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship fuels Ireland’s economic innovation and prosperity, and serves as a key means for families to move out of low-wage jobs and into the middle class wage brackets.

7.  Public Benefits and Costs
Local stores in town centers require comparatively little infrastructure and make more efficient use of public services relative to big stores and shopping centres.

8.  Environmental Sustainability
Local stores help to sustain vibrant, compact, walkable town centers-which in turn are essential to reducing sprawl, car use, habitat loss, and air and water pollution.

9.  Competition
A marketplace of tens of thousands of small businesses is the best way to ensure innovation and low prices over the long-term.

10.  Product Diversity
A multitude of small businesses, each selecting products based, not on a national sales plan, but on their own interests and the needs of their local customers, guarantees a much broader range of product choices.