Rockland-based Maritime Farms expands with acquisition of Kennebec County store
Courtesy / Maritime Farms
The Fieldstone Quickstop store on Route 3 has been purchased and rebranded as a Maritime Farms store.
Maritime Energy Co., a Rockland-based fuel business that also operates a dozen convenience stores in midcoast Maine, has added a 13th with the acquisition of Fieldstone Quickstop in South China.
Terms of the purchase were not disclosed in a news release last week announcing the deal. Maritime has rebranded the store, on Route 3, with the Maritime Farms name.
As part of the acquisition, Maritime Farms has replaced the Subway sandwich shop previously in the store with Maritime’s Lighthouse deli. An onsite Dunkin’ coffee shop remains, and the store continues to sell Sunoco gasoline.
“We are very excited to bring the Fieldstone Quickstop into our Maritime family and have its employees join our team. Our fuel customers in the area can also now enjoy the same gasoline discounts as our Midcoast customers,” said Maritime Energy President Susan Ware Page in the release.
Founded in 1939 by Ware Page’s grandfather, Roland G. Ware, and led by his son, Chairman John Ware, Maritime Energy is a local family-owned company serving Knox, Lincoln, Waldo, Hancock and Kennebec counties. In addition to its 13 convenience stores, Maritime provides heating and cooling services, plumbing, and heating and motor fuel through five fuel offices.
Another family-owned company that operates small grocery and convenience stores, Tradewinds Markets, last September sold eight of its variety stores in northern and Downeast Maine to a Massachusetts-based energy company, Energy North.
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