🔒Mainebiz presents a 20-year retrospective of doing business in Maine

For our 20th anniversary issue, Mainebiz wanted to look at two decades of business through the eyes of business leaders. Throughout the issue, we have highlighted key Maine industries and asked at least one longtime leader to tell the story of an industry's past two decades.

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Shipbuilding: Investments help Bath Iron Works maintain its shipbuilding prowess; Maine's wooden boat-building trade has grown over two decades

Marine: The rise and fall of Maine's offshore fishing industry

Manufacturing: Factories are producing more goods with fewer people

Agriculture: Locally sourced food trend buoys Maine farms

Forest products: Forest products industry puts $8 billion into Maine's economy

Telecom: Faster broadband seen as essential for Maine's economy

Energy: Oil, propane expected to remain stalwarts as Mainers try new energy sources

Health care: Rising costs coupled with a need to be affordable

Banking: Mergers and changes in where people keep their money are changing banks

Higher education: Maine's mix of colleges and universities have created an 'education hub'

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'He wheeled and dealed': An interview with Mainebiz founder Jon Whitney

Maine's mix of colleges and universities have created an 'education hub'

Mergers and regulations: Two decades of change in banking

Health care crossroads: Rising costs coupled with need to be affordable

Oil, propane expected to remain stalwarts as Mainers try new energy sources

Growth engine: Faster broadband seen as essential for Maine's economy

Forest products industry puts $8 billion into Maine's economy

Know your farmer: Locally sourced food trend buoys Maine farms

An industry, changed but still viable: One man's tale of Maine manufacturing

Groundfishing aground? The rise and fall of Maine's offshore fishing industry

Decades of tide changes: Investments help Bath Iron Works maintain its shipbuilding prowess

Reflecting on 20 years: Other 20-year-old companies look back

Maine's history of principled politicians in the U.S. Senate

Our story isn't ours alone

It takes a team

'He wheeled and dealed': An interview with Mainebiz founder Jon Whitney

Health care crossroads: Rising costs coupled with need to be affordable

Growth engine: Faster broadband seen as essential for Maine's economy

Forest products industry puts $8 billion into Maine's economy

Know your farmer: Locally sourced food trend buoys Maine farms

An industry, changed but still viable: One man's tale of Maine manufacturing

Groundfishing aground? The rise and fall of Maine's offshore fishing industry

Decades of tide changes: Investments help Bath Iron Works maintain its shipbuilding prowess