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The organization is changing its brand image and became the Cap-Acadie Chamber of Commerce, at the dawn of the merger between the Village of Cap-Pelé and the Rural Community of Beaubassin-Est following the local governance reform. The legal name will change in 2023.

The Cap-Pelé/Beaubassin-Est Chamber of Commerce launches consultations for its first ever strategic plan since the foundation of the non-profit. The strategic plan will be officially adopted in the same year.

The Cap-Pelé/Beaubassin-Est Chamber of Commerce receives the prestigious Progress Golden Pot Award awarded by the Atlantic Chamber of Commerce for the highest annual membership growth rate across all Chambers of commerce in Atlantic Canada.

The Cap-Pelé/Beaubassin-Est Chamber of Commerce is incorporated under the Federal Chambers of Commerce Act. It then becomes a Part II Chamber of Commerce and also becomes a Bilingual Chamber of Commerce. The legal name in French becomes La Chambre de commerce Cap-Pelé/Beaubassin-Est inc. while its legal name in English becomes Cap-Pelé Beaubassin-East Chamber of Commerce. With this change also comes an expansion of its territory: the communities of Boudreau-Ouest, Grand-Barachois and Haute Aboujagane are added to the territory of the Chamber of Commerce Cap-Pelé/Beaubassin-Est.

It was in January 1996 that the Chamber of Commerce of the Cap-Pelé region Inc. was officially incorporated under the Provincial law. At the time, about thirty members of the Cap-Pelé region wanted to see the establishment of a Chamber of Commerce in the region in order to be the official voice of the business community. The new organization will represent the communities of the Village of Cap-Pelé, Cormier-Village, Portage, Saint-André-LeBlanc, Trois-Ruisseaux, Shemogue and Petit-Cap.

In order to better reflect municipal changes with the creation of an umbrella of local service districts (LSDs) around the Village of Cap-Pelé, the organization changed his commercial name to La Chambre de commerce Cap-Pelé/Beaubassin-Est. The legal name remains the same as in 1994.

The Chamber of Commerce of the Cap-Pelé region mandates the firm Communication Plus of Moncton as the designer of the first-ever logo. The theme chosen at the time was fishing and Acadie.

Beginning of April 1994, another foundation meeting is called. Twenty-two entrepreneurs from the region are among the founding members of the Chamber of Commerce of the Cap-Pelé region. For the moment, the Chamber of Commerce of the Cap-Pelé region does not have a legal vocation, except the designation of a citizens’ committee.

A first meeting foundation meeting happened. However, it will take a few years before the project takes off.

The idea of a Chamber of Commerce for the region began to emerge in the 1980s, when a few Cap-Pelé merchants were members of the Shediac Chamber of Commerce, which ceased to exist for the first time around 1990. This closure forces companies that wish to do so to become members of the Moncton Chamber of Commerce or the Sackville Chamber of Commerce. Charles-Yvon Landry, owner of the Home Hardware store in Cap-Pelé, is credited for initiating the process to establish a local Chamber of Commerce for the Cap-Pelé region.