Roxanne Quimby's new focus: Making pasta
Burt’s Bees co-founder Roxanne Quimby has a new business venture making small batches of pasta at her 25-acre farm in Gouldsboro, using locally grown kale, beets, carrots, chives and garlic and eggs from 100 cage-free hens.
The Portland Press Herald reported that Quimby plans to show her My Pasta Art products at four trade shows this year and that wholesale orders make up the bulk of sales beyond orders that come in from local retail markets and restaurants.
Quimby uses semolina flour from the Great Plains, but makes a point of sourcing the other ingredients locally, the newspaper reported.
Quimby sold 80% of her share of the personal care products line company to AEA Investors in 2003 for $177 million. In 2007, the company was again sold, this time to Clorox, for $925 million.
In addition to her pasta-making venture, the Press Herald reported, Quimby has invested in other ventures to boost the local economy of Gouldsboro, population 1,737, including purchasing a 93-site campground on 113 acres that went into foreclosure and restoring homes to rent out on Airbnb.
“We have 260 nights sold in July and August,” she told the Press Herald regarding bookings at her campground. “The whole town, you can see, has picked up.”
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