The Agency for the Promotion of Commercial Innovation of Sant Joan d’Alacant, is an instrument through which the Sant Joan d’Alacant City Council, in collaboration with the Generalitat Valenciana, is promoting the process of modernization and organization of commerce in the city.
The AFIC Office, attached to the Department of Commerce and Market, together with the remaining offices belonging to the AFIC NETWORK, are a basic component of cooperation between the local and regional administration, which allows coordinated action for the development of proactive policies. that seek the development of local commercial activity.
Our objective is to offer a permanent information management and advisory service to commercial SMEs in the municipality and their representative associations, promoting actions and initiatives to promote, energize and support Local Commerce.
The functions and services of the Commercial Innovation Agency of the Sant Joan d’Alacant City Council are the following:
- Offer specialized information on trade to citizens and merchants.
- Inform and advise merchants and new entrepreneurs on access to subsidies and aid related to the sector.
- Boost local commerce through animation, promotion and advertising campaigns.
- Organize training actions for workers and entrepreneurs in the commercial field.
- Participate and prepare studies on the situation of local commerce, as well as provide technical assistance, regarding commerce, to the rest of the municipal departments.
- Coordinate relations between merchants, their associations, local and regional administration
- Support, advise and tutor the creation of new businesses and companies.
- Advice and processing of aid from official organizations
- Facilitate access to specialized information through the use of telematic tools (commercial maps, AFICOM…)
- Information on commercial regulations: sales, schedules, pricing…
- Promotion of commercial associations, sector specialization and the implementation of new technologies.
- Provide technical assistance in matters of Commerce to the rest of the municipal departments.
- Coordination of relations between Merchants Associations and local and regional administration.