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Curaleaf Dominates Business of Cannabis Awards With Three Wins
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Three of the ten trophies handed out at the Business of Cannabis Awards in London on the evening of May 26, 2026 went to subsidiaries of one corporate family. Curaleaf International took European Company of the Year. Curaleaf Laboratories won Cannabis Team of the Year. Curaleaf Clinic UK claimed Cannabis Clinic of the Year — three awards across three separate categories, from a field of nearly 250 entries across eight countries, the largest the awards’ judging panel has evaluated in the program’s three-year run.
The ceremony took place at 83 Rivington in London after the first day of Cannabis Europa London 2026 at the Barbican Centre. MP Tonia Antoniazzi opened the evening by presenting the inaugural Hannah Deacon Award before the category results followed. MyCannabis covered the 2026 shortlists when they were announced earlier in May.
What Curaleaf’s sweep signals
The shortlists Curaleaf beat were competitive. In European Company of the Year, Bloomwell Group, Cantourage, Somai Pharmaceuticals, Aurora Europe, and Alphafarma Operations were among the nominees. In Cannabis Team of the Year, Cantourage — which received a special mention — and Tilray Brands (TLRY ) were in the field. In Cannabis Clinic of the Year, MAMEDICA, Medicann, and CB1 were on the shortlist.
Winning across all three from competitive fields reflects breadth of operation. Curaleaf’s European structure spans a holding company operating across multiple jurisdictions, a UK-based pharmaceutical manufacturing unit, and one of the UK’s larger private medical cannabis clinics. Sweeping clinical, manufacturing, and company-level categories in the same evening is a statement about how much of the European value chain the group now covers.
Bloomwell Group also ended the evening with two awards. The Munich-based digital health company, which operates one of Germany’s largest cannabis prescription platforms, won Consumer Technology Provider of the Year — with Script Assist receiving a special mention as “the operational backbone of the UK medical cannabis prescription market” — and its co-founder and CEO Niklas Kouparanis took Business Leader of the Year from a competitive shortlist that also included High Tide’s (HITI ) Raj Grover and Medicann’s Gary Whipp.
Curaleaf and Bloomwell together accounted for five of the ten awards — a result that reflects the two competitive models taking shape in European cannabis: vertically integrated international operators and domestically rooted digital health platforms.
The rest of the field
Village Farms International (VFF ) won Producer of the Year over a shortlist that included Aurora Cannabis (ACB ) and Somai Pharmaceuticals. Village Farms is a publicly traded diversified greenhouse operator; its cannabis division competes on scale and agricultural output, and the recognition reflects growing attention in European industry circles to supply-side efficiency in a market where regulatory compliance and consistent quality are increasingly decisive.
VIST Labs took AgriTech Provider of the Year ahead of Fluence and GrowerIQ, in a category that tracks the growing technical complexity of cannabis cultivation infrastructure.
Nicole Farah of Americana PR won Industry Rising Star over four other nominees. Javier Hasse of High Times took International Journalist of the Year from a shortlist of eight that included Aurélien Bernard of Newsweed, who received a special mention as one of the more rigorous independent voices covering the European industry.
The inaugural Hannah Deacon Award — created to honor the patient advocate who helped win prescription cannabis access in Britain — went to Carola Perez of Dos Emociones and We, The Patients, a Brussels-based patient advocacy organization. MP Antoniazzi, who campaigned alongside Deacon on the original legislative push, presented the award. The category’s introduction to the program signals a broadening of what European cannabis’s business community considers worth recognizing — patient advocacy now sits in the same recognition framework as producers, clinicians, and technology providers.
The ceremony was hosted by Romana Testasecca and sponsored by Cielo Verde, Loomis, and Script Assist. The Cannabis Europa conference continued through May 27, 2026 at the Barbican Centre.
