Linda Bean's lobster empire grows
Linda Bean has purchased an 11,000-square-foot building in Rockland's industrial park and plans to use it for storing, grading and distributing lobsters.
The Bangor Daily News reported that Bean's company, Amalgamated Enterprises LLC, purchased the building from a Canadian company that had planned to convert the facility into a lobster processing plant. The New Brunswick company had purchased the building – the former site of the printing plant for Courier Publications and Village Soup -- at a foreclosure auction last September, the newspaper reported.
Bean, who also owns a 23,000-square-foot lobster processing plant and a 12,000-square-foot lobster storage building in Rockland, told the newspaper that since acquiring her first buying station in Port Clyde in 2007, the amount of lobsters she purchases each year has grown from 400,000 pounds to 5.5 million pounds. That volume prompted her to acquire the additional space to store lobsters near her processing plant. She also owns buying stations on Vinalhaven and Tenants Harbor.
The sales price of her latest purchase was not disclosed.
John Petersdorf, the president and general manager of Linda Bean's Maine Lobster, told the newspaper that he expects an initial hiring of six to 10 workers at the new facility.
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