A Helping Hand Amidst Tighter Restrictions

On 14 May 2021, Singapore’s Multi-Ministry Taskforce’s (MTF) announced the tightening of restrictions from 16 May through 13 June 2021 to curb the rise of COVID-19 cases. In line with this, targeted support measures such as the enhanced Job Support Scheme for food and beverage (F&B) firms and one-month rental relief for hawker stall and coffeeshop tenants of Government agencies would be offered to affected businesses.

- Raja Azura Raja Nazreen

To extend additional support to businesses, Enterprise Singapore (ESG) re-introduced the Food Delivery Booster Package and E-Commerce Booster Package from 16 May 2021, to help affected businesses diversify their revenue channels and defray business costs of going online.

ESG’s Assistant CEO, Dilys Boey said, “We understand that the latest tightening will have an impact on companies and there are concerns about the additional resources required to deal with them. We are providing support through the booster packages to help defray some of these operational costs. More importantly, we urge F&B and retail businesses who have yet to get onboard e-commerce to tap these packages to adapt their business models for online sales.”