Alex Dickens and Brent Harris, co-founders of the Saint John Tool Library, received the 2019 Emerging Enterprise Award during the annual Outstanding Business Awards on Oct. 10, 2019. (Photo: Brad Perry)
The Saint John Region Chamber of Commerce handed out some hardware Thursday night at the outstanding Business Awards.
The Emerging Enterprise Award went to Brent Harris and Alex Dickens, co-founders of the Saint John Tool Library.
Harris says they are very pleased to see their business come to fruition, and to win this award is amazing.
“This was very much a gamble and experiment for both of us. Alex quit his job and I borrowed a bunch of money to try and get this off the ground. It was the first piece of the sharing economy in New Brunswick at the time and we had a very different business model,” stated Harris.
Both Harris and Dickens say they have been welcomed by the business community with open arms, which is nice to see.
“We believed in it and we see the need for it but who knows if it’s going to work, and then 18 months later, to be winning the Emerging Enterprise Award is amazing,” said Harris.
Other winners included:
- Duke Creative Collective for the Entrepreneurial Achievement Award.
- Thandi Restaurant took the Business Excellence Award.
- Area 506 got The Chair’s Award.
- Canaport LNG, won The Big Heart Award.
- Joe MacKay of Yip Cider is the Young Entrepreneur of the Year.
- Cooke Aquaculture won the Developer Award.
