An airline serving Canada’s north, the developer behind Amazon’s massive east-end warehouse and a crop of the capital’s fastest-growing tech firms are among this year’s recipients of the region’s highest business honours, the Best Ottawa Business Awards.
The BOBs, put on each year by the Ottawa Business Journal and the Ottawa Board of Trade, recognize the top local companies, entrepreneurs and business leaders for their accomplishments in the past year.
Nearly two dozen companies that call Ottawa home will be honoured at the annual gala, which will be held this year at the Westin Ottawa on Nov. 16.
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Among the headline award winners will be the 2018 CEO of the Year, Canopy Growth’s Bruce Linton, and Giant Tiger chairman and CEO Gordon Reid, this year’s recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award. Mitel’s Steve Spooner will be honoured with the inaugural CFO of the Year award.
See the full list of winners below, and be sure to grab your tickets to the fall’s biggest business gala event.
2018 BOB award recipients:
- 1VALET
- Amazon-Broccolini
- Assent Compliance
- Broccolini
- Desk Nibbles
- DS Plumbing
- First Air
- Fullscript
- Giant Tiger
- Intouch Insight
- Martello Technologies
- MDS Aero Support Corporation
- OPIN Software
- Ottawa Community Housing Corporation
- PCL Constructors Canada Inc.
- PureColo Inc.
- RA Centre
- RE/MAX Affiliates Realty
- Regional Group
- Rewind
- Slice Labs Inc.
- Syntronic
- Wicket