Chamber Announces 31st Annual Business Champion of the Year Award Winners

The Cocoa Beach Regional Chamber of Commerce presented its Business Champion of the Year Awards to five area companies at its 31^st Annual Awards Ceremony on Friday, Sept. 13, at the Holiday Inn Express & Suites/Space Coast Convention Center in Cocoa. The Executive sponsors were: Florida Today, Hometown News Media Group & Waste Management.

The winners are:

Start-Up Business Champion:  I Do Weddings Plus Events; 

Small Business Champion:  RenewPro;

Medium Business Champion:  MorseCom; 

Large Business Champion:  Florida Power & Light Company;

Non-Profit Business Champion:  SPCA of Brevard

Over 200 chamber partners, their families and friends regaled in the event’s theme, Launching Success. The emcee of the evening was Greg Pallone, News 13 Anchor and the keynote speaker was Representative Tyler Sirois, District 51. 

All nominees for the awards were recognized. Representatives of the banquet’s major sponsors made presentations to the winners.

“It took a lot of hard work by several dedicated people to not only organize the awards ceremony, but to compile the nominations, evaluate the entries and make the difficult determination as to which companies would receive the honor of ‘Business Champion of the Year,’” said Joe Janson, Business Champion of the Year Event Committee Chair. “In light of the outstanding organizations that were nominated, choosing only one per category was not easy for our judges; they were all winners.”

The Cocoa Beach Regional Chamber of Commerce was established in 1968 and serves Cape Canaveral, Cocoa, Cocoa Beach, Kennedy Space Center, Merritt Island, Patrick Air Force Base, Port St. John, Rockledge, Palm Shores, Suntree and Viera.