A city centre delicatessen will celebrate its first anniversary this week as hundreds of other Wolverhampton enterprises mark national Small Business Saturday.

Polish deli Kabanos opened on 6 December last year after winning the Wolverhampton Portas Pilot competition - Ideas2Reality. Owners Karolina Cummings and Kamilla Adamczyk will join hundreds of other local companies in celebrating small business success.

The city council's business support team will be hosting free advice surgeries for small companies every day this week in the lead up to Small Business Saturday. They will take place on:

  • Monday 1 December at Pendeford Hub between 12pm and 7pm
  • Tuesday 2 December at Wednesfield library between 10am and 5pm
  • Wednesday 3 December at Warstones library between 10am and 4.30pm
  • Thursday 4 December at the Civic Centre, 2nd Floor between 10am and 4pm
  • Thursday 4 December at Wolverhampton Business Solutions Centre between 10am and 4pm
  • Friday 5 December at Bilston library between 10am and 5pm
  • Saturday 6 December at A2B Recruitment Shop in the Mander Centre from 10am to 4pm

Wolverhampton City Council's deputy leader and cabinet member for economic growth and prosperity Peter Bilson said: "We have a good range of small businesses operating successfully across the city which are all contributing to its continued growth. Small Business Saturday provides us with a focus to celebrate their success and urge more people to support them. Kabanos is another example of a small enterprise which has gone from strength to strength since it opened a year ago."

After winning the Portas Pilot, Kabanos was given business support and advice and was awarded a rent free shop unit for 6 months in addition to a contribution towards business rates to help it set up. The business sells a wide range of Polish products, from cakes to fresh speciality sliced meats.

Small Business Saturday is a national day to highlight the success of small enterprises, urge people to support them and inspire others to set up their own company.

  • released Monday 1 December, 2014