Pictou County businesses honoured
PICTOU, N.S. — The 28th annual Business Achievement Awards were a success by any measure for the recipients of 12 awards, their supporters or people just wanting to hear from Pictou County’s leading entrepreneurs.
The ceremony, recognizing excellence in Pictou County’s business community, was held at the deCoste Performing Arts Centre on Oct. 17.
“It’s been quite a ride, and we’re just getting started,” said Cathy Munro, who received the New Business of the Year Award during the ceremony.
Bramble Hill Farm, which was started by Munro as a homesteading project, now grows and sells microgreen salad mixes throughout the province and employs five people.
Munro shared the award for New Business of the Year with designer Tabitha Coleman of Tabitha & Co, which Coleman started back in 2018 as a business that creates unique handcrafted leather bags designed and made by Coleman right here in Pictou County.
“Anyone can come up with a great concept for a business plan, but it’s the support of many who can make it a success,” said Coleman, upon receiving her award.
Before Munro and Coleman received their awards, the award for Small Business of the Year was announced for Our Turn to Cook and its owner Brenda Kennedy.
Our Turn To Cook supplies individual meal kits for up to six people, as well as serving Viola’s Place and the palliative care unit at the Aberdeen Hospital and employs three people.
“I definitely couldn’t have done it on my own,” said Kennedy.
At the end of the evening, the Lifetime Achievement award was given out to the corporate director of Empire Co. Ltd, the Sobey Art Foundation and chair of Crombie REIT, the Sobey Foundation and Aberdeen Health Foundation board member, Frank C. Sobey.