January 7, 2019 Edition

Retail & Food Service

🔒Retail & Distribution: Lewiston footwear distributor to step up its hiring

Lewiston’s M. Leonard International Inc. plans to step up hiring after adding a Danish clog brand it’s distributing exclusively for Sanita Denmark A/S. The shoe wholesaler recently increased its warehouse […]

Real Estate & Construction

🔒Construction: ‘Robust’ pace of construction expected to continue

Landry/French Construction signs are all over southern Maine. That's likely to continue, at least through this year. Kevin...

Retail & Food Service

🔒Grocers and food producers: Increase in minimum wage creates uncertainty for grocers

Holiday sales are just one bellwether for Maine's grocery stores and supermarkets going into 2019, according to...

Higher education

🔒Construction staffing: Placement firm sees great potential for state in unlikely employee pool

Margo Walsh knows a thing or two about turnarounds. In 2010, she launched her industrial staffing company,...

News

🔒Baby boomers can help ease workforce shortage

As a business owner focused exclusively on the career transitions of Maine professionals, I read with interest...

Economic development

🔒Accounting: Tight labor market among challenges ahead

CPA Pete Dufour, founder of Dufour Tax Group LLC, is an advisor to hundreds of business clients. He's...

In Short

🔒IN SHORT

New hiresCasco Bay Wealth Advisors in Brunswick hired Katie Lewis as a client services manager. Lewis was...

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🔒Hospitality: Inns face challenges, but finding buyers is not one of them

Rick Wolf is an owner and partner with the B&B Team, specializing in lodging brokerage and consulting. Despite...

Economic development

🔒19 business leaders weigh in on Maine’s economy — and a year that could offer some surprises

Every January, Mainebiz looks at the coming year and asks a range of experts, “What can we...

Banking & Finance

🔒New year brings new resolutions for business leaders

With the new year upon us, Mainebiz asked business and nonprofit leaders about their business resolutions for...

Health care

🔒Health care: For Maine’s health care, a positive prognosis

Despite a decline of over 5% from 2018 to 2019 in the number of Mainers obtaining health...

Banking & Finance

🔒Financial Planning: Stock market worries? Take the long view

Molly C. Reinfried, a certified financial planner, has been at HM Payson for four and a half...

Banking & Finance

🔒Insurance: Clark Insurance’s COO is betting on a strong year

Insurance is by definition a calculated risk, so Jeff Lind, COO at Clark Insurance, hedges his bets...

Economic development

🔒Government perspective: Collaboration is the key to reinventing Aroostook’s economy

Christina Kane-Gibson is the events and marketing director of the city of Caribou and a 2018 Mainebiz...

Higher education

🔒UNE’s James Herbert keen to take team-based health education ‘to the next level’

James Herbert succeeded Danielle N. Ripich as president of University of New England in July 2017. He...

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🔒Government perspective: Pace of tourism may slow, but growth will continue

Steve Lyons, director of the Maine Office of Tourism, predicts continued growth in visitor numbers, but perhaps...

Manufacturing

🔒Construction: With roof maintenance and repairs, no ‘stopping anytime soon’

Peter Horch founded Horch Roofing, in Warren, in 2003. In recent years, it has been among Maine's...

Economic development

🔒Economic development: Maine needs business and job growth to reach national levels

Jim Damicis is a senior vice president at Camion Associates, an economic development firm with five offices,...

Energy & Utilities

🔒Law: Energy sector offers opportunities to bolster Maine’s economy

Patrick Scully, managing partner at Bernstein Shur, says “far more positive” conditions in the energy sector could...

News

🔒Workforce Development: Workforce resources may increase from new administration

Nate Wildes is executive director at Live and Work in Maine, a private-sector initiative to raise awareness...

Economic development

🔒Government perspective: Economic strong points include salmon farms, health services and tourism

Amanda Rector, the Maine state economist, has been a regular part of the Mainebiz forecast issue. While...

Manufacturing

🔒Boatbuilding: A diversified outlook for Belfast’s Front Street Shipyard

Front Street Shipyard in Belfast has seen unprecedented growth in the past seven years. The boatyard, which was...

Banking & Finance

🔒Wealth management: Spinnaker’s Rand ‘cautious’ of financial market headwinds

As Amanda Rand embarks on her second year as president of Portland-based wealth management firm Spinnaker Trust,...

Banking & Finance

🔒Financial management: Northern Maine financial firm invests in staff and software

After taking the helm as CEO of Thompson-Hamel LLC in October, Bryan Thompson has big plans for...

Banking & Finance

🔒Banking: An economic downturn could be lurking

Chip Kelley took over last summer as Maine market president for KeyBank, which has 49 Maine offices...

Real Estate & Construction

🔒Real Estate: Realtor sees 2019 in historical perspective

Sue Spann has witnessed good times and bad since she and her husband, Don, opened RE/MAX Riverside...

Banking & Finance

🔒Banking: Growth in the forecast at Maine’s largest credit union

Town & Country Federal Credit Union, Maine's largest credit union with 38,800 members as of Nov. 30,...

News

🔒For 2019, predicting the unpredictable

Going into 2019, there's been a lot of talk about the economy and where it's headed. With...

Marketing & Media

🔒A Look Back: 25 years of Mainebiz

The very first issue of Mainebiz, in December 1994, featured a story about another company that launched...

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