Enterprise Charlotte is a Community Economic Development Agency (CEDA) created in July 2002. The aim of this agency was to grow Charlotte County’s economy by ensuring the effective communication of government strategies and initiatives to the region, assisting businesses with expansion, human resource issues, productivity, and succession planning, hosting collaborative meetings and events, promoting the region, and providing funding.

Enterprise Charlotte was part of a larger Enterprise System of CEDAs in New Brunswick at the time, of which there were 15 in total that covered every region of New Brunswick. These Enterprise Agencies were coordinated by the government department of Business New Brunswick (BNB), and were given a budget through the Community Economic Development Fund administered by BNB. The CEDAs were created as a part of “Greater Opportunity: New Brunswick’s Prosperity Plan 2002-2012”, with the aim of giving communities in New Brunswick a more active role in shaping their economic futures based off their unique needs and advantages. The Enterprise Agencies would work with the municipal, provincial, and federal governments to facilitate this.

During the fiscal year of April 1, 2011, to March 31, 2012, New Brunswick’s Regional Development Corporation and BNB were amalgamated into the Department of Economic Development in order to streamline their work. During this same fiscal year the Department of Economic Development began the process of opening district and satellite offices all over New Brunswick. The Charlotte County region would fall under the jurisdiction of a satellite office (called a Regional Service Commission) of the Southwest (Saint John) district office. These Regional Service Commissions would perform much of the same duties as the previous Enterprise Agencies, and would ultimately replace them around April 2013.