Business SA is South Australia’s largest membership-based employer organisation with over 4,000 members across 19 different industry sectors.

Historically, employer organisations in Australia were established to counter the union movement’s growing industrial relations influence.

This became more important over time as union tactics became increasingly aggressive, making it harder for individual employers to deal with their employees in good faith.

Just three years after the Colony of South Australia was established, the Adelaide Chamber of Commerce was formed on 7 January 1839.

In 1993, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the South Australian Employers’ Federation merged to form the South Australian Employers’ Chamber of Commerce and Industry Inc.