Kihniö's municipal strategy for 2022–2030 emphasizes strengthening the business community as part of the municipality's vitality and securing its future. The strategy focuses in particular on the growth of local business, supporting expertise, and increasing the municipality's attractiveness.

The municipality creates conditions for the expansion of existing companies and the location of new companies in the area.

The objectives of the measures are to encourage people of all ages, especially families with children, to settle and stay in Kihniö, and to attract new workers to the area. The aim is to highlight the good housing opportunities in Kihniö and encourage potential new residents to move and current residents of Kihniö to continue living in the area. The aim of the vitality package is to increase both the attraction and retention power of the area.

The municipality has already implemented:

• Baby allowance €1000 / new born child

• "Land per ton" business plot campaign for corporate needs

A new incentive should be introduced to provide a 50% rent reduction for employees moving to the municipality in municipal rental housing.

Kihniö is offering apartments for companies or municipal employees at a 50% discount for six months. The trial is limited to a limited number of apartments. The rental discount is available for leases that start between 1 June and 31 December 2026.

The aim of this experiment is to facilitate access to labor and attract potential migrants to live and work in the municipality. The support also applies to those who are already employed in companies or the municipality located in Kihniö, live in another municipality and want to move to live in Kihniö.

Either a company or an employee can apply for an apartment, in which case proof of employment in the locality must be provided to at least one person moving into the household.

Attached is more detailed instructions on the basis of support.

The technical director presented current issues:

• Wind power project status review

• Building regulations renewal underway

• Forest thinning

• Investment situation

Business expert Elina Kortesmaa spoke about current issues at Kehitys-Park:

• The municipality and Kehitys-Park's company visits continue

• The online attraction project is coming to an end this year.

• Jari from Tamski's Inner Finland Vitality Centre visited Parkano and Kihniö. Parkano and Kihniö will now be part of Tamski's municipalities. His task focuses particularly on supporting the growth and development of SMEs.

• Morning coffees for tourism operators have restarted

• The corporate finance evening was organized on May 5.5th.

• Procurement training for companies and municipalities coming up on May 26.5th.

• The Parkano-Kihniö tourist brochure is being completed.

Other issues that arise can be recorded in this section.