Business plans, funding, feasibility and research

Business plans, funding applications, feasibility studies and market research: each is scoped and priced case by case, so start with a conversation.

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01 · Business plans

Business plans

Market, operations, marketing and finances, for banks, investors and Malta Enterprise schemes.

What it covers

For a bank, an investor or a Malta Enterprise scheme
Market, operations, marketing and the numbers
Written with you, in your words

02 · Funding applications

Funding applications

Applications for grants and support schemes, prepared with you.

What it covers

Which schemes fit your project
The application, prepared with you
Scope and timing agreed with you

03 · Feasibility studies

Feasibility studies

Market, costs, economic impact and risk, as for the FUSION programme since 2015.

What it covers

Market, development costs and economic impact
Risk, scenarios and break-even
As for the FUSION programme since 2015

04 · Market research

Market research

Surveys by phone, online and face to face, focus groups and mystery shopping.

What it covers

Surveys by phone, online and face to face
Focus groups and mystery shopping
Scale and timing agreed with you

The work in numbers

Across nine sectors

250+projects
150+market research studies, with more than 40,000 interviews by phone and online
50+business plans and feasibility studies
45funding applications, each one awarded funding

Projects by sector

258 projects in nine groups of sectors: the bigger the circle, the more projects. Choose a service to see its projects alone.

258 projects153 market research studies45 funding applications30 business plans21 feasibility studies

Case studies

Examples of what the team has done

A few examples, from a three-person studio to the call centre of the national bus service: each piece of work scoped for the client, and where it needs more than our team, we bring in the people who know, from researchers and developers to investors and fieldwork teams. Clients are named only with their permission.

Market research · 2024
Malta Consumer Trends 2024
Our own study of 403 consumers, by phone and online, across 19 categories. We presented it at the Hilton Malta on 14 March 2024 to more than 150 people.
Business plan and funding · 2019 to 2024
UN1Q, a fitness-app start-up
A successful round of investment, and Xjenza Malta's support for its STEPS project through FUSION's Technology Development Programme LITE. UN1Q is now in development, and B2B Malta is one of its investors.
How we did it
The question
An industry expert with deep technical experience had an idea for a fitness app that reads movement and posture. Could it become a business, and could it be funded?
What we did
Business modelling with the founder, a business plan, and applications for start-up and research funding. Through our network we brought in researchers from the University of Malta, local developers and investors.
Tender and interim management · 2011
A call centre, for the national bus service
3,000+ calls and emails a day
The call centre became the concession's customer-service partner.
How we did it
The question
A local call centre bidding to become the customer-service partner of the new national bus concession.
What we did
We led its tender and supported the bus operator's bid, then set up the call centre and ran it for its first six months, building its management team.
Funding and innovation
Service provider to Xjenza Malta, Fondi.eu and Malta Enterprise
The B2B Malta team is a service provider to Xjenza Malta, the national agency for research and innovation, and to Fondi.eu and Malta Enterprise.
Market research · 2024 and 2025
A large food producer, and its gluten-free brand
500 + 250 people surveyed
The market sized, the gaps in the range found, and recommendations on where to grow. The client came back for two more studies: meal plans in 2024 and school lunches in 2025.
How we did it
The question
How big is the market for gluten-free and free-from food in Malta, which intolerances does the range not yet serve, and where should the brand grow?
What we did
A telephone survey of 500 people across Malta, a second sample of 250 people with a food intolerance, desk research, and an analysis of each brand's share, awareness and satisfaction.
Market research · since 2014
An energy brand, over twelve years
12 years running
A measure the brand can compare wave by wave, year after year.
How we did it
The question
How strong is the brand against its competitors, and how big is its market?
What we did
A survey of households by phone and online at each wave, from the questionnaire to the presentation, with the market estimate validated.
Community · 2024 to 2026
Home of the EIT Community Hub Malta, 2024 to 2026
The hub opened here on 4 September 2024 and was based at BUSINESSLABS until the end of 2026. Brain & Bites began with it.
Feasibility study · 2019
University inventors with a navigation aid
A complete feasibility report, with the market, the costs and the risks set out for the inventors and the programme.
How we did it
The question
Phone maps guide you street by street, but nothing warns a person with a visual impairment of the obstacle just ahead. Was there a market for an app that turns the camera into spoken guidance?
What we did
A feasibility study for Malta's FUSION research programme: the market, the cost of developing the product, its economic impact and the risks.
Business research · 2017
A government division planning incentives
400 business owners surveyed
A report on the demand for the incentives, from the businesses themselves.
How we did it
The question
Would local businesses use incentives for energy efficiency and renewable energy?
What we did
A survey of 400 business owners in the industries concerned, by phone and online.
Events · 2025
The Innovation Exchange 2025
Three workshops here in October, then a conference at Villa Arrigo on 14 November for 113 people. Organised by the EIT Community Hub Malta, powered by BUSINESSLABS and HATCH.
Business strategy · 2020
A three-person software studio
A strategy to grow beyond one customer. The studio later took an office at BUSINESSLABS.
How we did it
The question
Two senior developers and a designer, mostly building front ends, with no structure behind the work: unclear roles, one customer bringing most of it, and no sales pipeline.
What we did
A business model and value proposition worked through with the partners, simple financial projections, and a plan: one partner on business development, clear buyer profiles, and marketing measured by what it costs to win a customer and what that customer is worth.

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