Pennecon’s Co-Chairman Larry Puddister received the CEO of the Year Award from Atlantic Business Magazine’s Top 50 CEO Awards in Moncton on Thursday, May 12, 2016.

The CEO of the Year award recognizes one individual, from within the ranks of the Top 50 CEOs, who is deemed by the judges to have had to most outstanding accomplishments during the past year. Nominations are submitted by the readers of Atlantic Business Magazine, and nominees are judged according to their corporate, community and industry involvement, their company’s growth in recent years, and their responses to various managerial challenges.