Applications and Nomination Forms are NOW OPEN!

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Best Business Practices Award

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Award Focus: This award celebrates a company that demonstrates excellence in business management, with a focus on employee retention, employment and financial growth, and key business achievements.

Eligibility: Open to all CNLA member businesses in good standing.

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‍Most Innovative Business Award‍

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Award Focus: This award recognizes a business that is leading the way through innovation—whether in technology, products, services, systems, or customer experience. The recipient will have demonstrated forward-thinking solutions that have positively impacted their operations and the industry at large.

Eligibility: Open to all CNLA member businesses in good standing.

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Sustainable Solutions Award

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‍Award Focus: This award recognizes a company that has demonstrated leadership in sustainability through innovative environmental practices, operational efficiencies, and contributions to a greener, more resilient horticulture industry.

Eligibility: Open to all CNLA member businesses in good standing.

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‍‍Outstanding Volunteer Award

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Award Focus: This award honours an individual who has gone above and beyond in contributing their time, energy, and passion to support the horticulture industry through volunteerism. Their service may include leadership, mentorship, committee involvement, event support, or other impactful contributions to CNLA and/or its provincial association partners.

Eligibility: Nominees must be a CNLA member (or affiliated with a member company) and have demonstrated a sustained and meaningful commitment to volunteerism in the industry.

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‍Emerging Leader Award

‍Award Focus: This award recognizes a young individual (aged 40 and under) who demonstrates leadership, passion, and dedication to the horticulture industry. Their contributions may include active involvement in CNLA and/or a provincial association, innovative thinking, community impact, or exceptional professional development and growth.

Eligibility: Nominees must be 40 years of age or younger and actively involved in the Canadian horticulture industry. They should be affiliated with a CNLA member business or provincial association partner.

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‍Green for Life Industry Award‍

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Award Focus: To recognize a corporation or supplier's significant contribution to the industry as well as to honour an individual’s lifetime achievement in the horticulture industry, their lasting legacy.

Eligibility: A corporate entity, supplier or industry member in good standing.

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Landscaper of Distinction

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‍Award Focus: This award recognizes a landscape construction, maintenance, or design company that has demonstrated exceptional growth, innovation, leadership, and professionalism in the past year. The award celebrates overall business success, key accomplishments, and contributions to the landscape horticulture industry.

‍Eligibility: Open to all CNLA member businesses in good standing.

Application deadline is October 27, 2025.

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Lauryn Smith CNLA Events Specialist lauryn@cnla-acpp.ca (647) 724-8620