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May 22, 2008

Blueberry grower expands, adds 50 jobs

Jasper Wyman & Sons, a Down East blueberry grower, plans to complete a multimillion dollar upgrade within the month that will add 50 seasonal jobs.

The Milbridge-based grower, the largest American-owned blueberry grower in the United States, is building a 71,000-square-foot processing facility in Deblois to accommodate an increase in blueberry sales and a rise in the imported raspberries, strawberries and blackberries that the company also processes,Wyman President and CEO Ed Flanagan told Mainebiz this morning. Flanagan said the expansion will cost Wyman between $8 million and $15 million, but would not specify the exact cost or release any details about the company's annual revenue because, he says, the Wyman family is very secretive. Wyman sales have tripled since the mid-1990s, Flanagan says, and the expansion is "long overdue."

Jasper Wyman & Sons has operated in Maine since 1874 and employs between 100 and 120 full-time workers in its fields and factories in Milbridge, Cherryfield, Deblois and on Prince Edward Island. The company is paying for the new facility thanks in part to a $8.4 million tax-exempt bond from the Finance Authority of Maine.

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