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The Chamber of Commerce for Greater Moncton has released the names of those in the runnings for its top yearly awards.

The finalists for the 2022 Business Excellence Awards were announced at Sept. 14 event at Brainworks’ Imagination Centre in downtown Moncton.

The finalists, sorted into nine categories, include the following businesses:

Excellence in Business
CF Champlain
Greystone Energy Systems
D. Irving Ltd.
Liberty

Excellence in Business (Small and Medium Enterprise)
Hive Engineering Limited
OMISTA Credit Union
PMC Energy Ltd.

Emerging Business
Beyond 20/20 Optometry
CASA House
Sai Krishna Foods Services

Environmental Excellence
ALIVE Kombucha
Epoch Chemistry Coffee Corp.
La Station Workspace

Innovation
A.S. Concrete Countertops Inc.
Propicsta
Tire Shack Brewing Co.

Non-profit Organization of the Year
Atlantic Wellness
BGC Moncton
Greater Moncton SPCA (PAW-SBA)
Hospice Southeast New Brunswick

2022 Young Entrepreneur
Beth’s Bile Light
Jessica Goguen Nail Artist
Lost and Found Ice Cream Inc.
Luxe Salon

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Accor
Banque Nationale National Bank
Missing Link Technologies

Newcomer Entrepreneur
Knots Jiu-Jitsu Inc.
Spicy Grillz
Surreal Design Studio Inc.

This year’s awards mark the 37th iteration of the event hosted by the chamber, and will be hosted Oct. 18, at the Delta Beauséjour in downtown Moncton.

Voting for the finalists will take place on the chamber’s website.

At the same evening event, Brainworks Co-founder Brad LeBlanc announced his takeover of the Moncton-based marketing agency, after buying the last five-percent stake from his two co-founders David and Lorrie Hawkins, in a succession process he said began in 2017.

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