Leading EDGE Awards winners announced

WHITESBORO — The 12th edition of the Leading EDGE Awards will be presented to companies from the Mohawk Valley on May 30.  This year’s business honorees are Burrow’s Paper Corp. of Little Falls, Matt Brewing Company of Utica, Meyda Lighting of Yorkville, and Rome Strip Steel of Rome, according to a news release from Mohawk Valley EDGE.

Symeon Tsoupelis, owner of Symeon’s Greek Restaurant in Yorkville, will receive the Christopher Destito Leading EDGE Award.

“The Leading EDGE Awards recognize and honor companies [that] are investing and growing in the Mohawk Valley, or demonstrating innovation through their products or processes,” Steven J. DiMeo, president of Mohawk Valley EDGE, said in the release.

John Zogby, senior analyst at Zogby Analytics, will be the keynote speaker at the event, which begins at noon at the Hart’s Hill Inn in Whitesboro. 

Tickets to the luncheon are $50 and are available by contacting Mohawk Valley EDGE at (315) 338-0393.