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Sponsored by: OTELCO

As 2020 draws to a close, many Mainers and Maine businesses are saying good riddance.

The COVID-19 pandemic has cost over 300,000 lives in the U.S. alone, and sickened nearly 18 million Americans. Unemployment has skyrocketed, and the year ends with one our of four small businesses in the U.S. predicting they'll have to close in the next six months if the economy doesn't improve.

Still, as Mainebiz highlighted this year in our new podcast series, "The Day That Changed Everything," Mainers have adapted to difficult hardships and overcome enormous challenges before.

 

For your business, how does 2020 compare with other challenging times?
2020 has been the toughest year ever for my business. (40%, 73 VOTES)
2020 has been tough, but the Great Recession of 2007-2009 was tougher. (17%, 32 VOTES)
2020 has been tough, but the months after the 9/11 attacks were tougher. (2%, 3 VOTES)
2020 has been a year of ups and downs, nothing extraordinary. (14%, 25 VOTES)
2020 has been a good year for my business. (27%, 50 VOTES)
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Sponsored by: OTELCO

As 2020 draws to a close, many Mainers and Maine businesses are saying good riddance.

The COVID-19 pandemic has cost over 300,000 lives in the U.S. alone, and sickened nearly 18 million Americans. Unemployment has skyrocketed, and the year ends with one our of four small businesses in the U.S. predicting they'll have to close in the next six months if the economy doesn't improve.

Still, as Mainebiz highlighted this year in our new podcast series, "The Day That Changed Everything," Mainers have adapted to difficult hardships and overcome enormous challenges before.

 

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  • December 22, 2020

    Our business did well in 2020 because of projects we had in backlog, however we expect 2021 and 2022 to be difficult years as project sales for that time period are way down in 2020.

  • December 21, 2020

    What a wild ride indeed but a profitable one for sure. Been in business for 44 years now and we have weathered 3 tough recessions in that time that we always got through to be even stronger. We are in the Green Goods Industry and in late March we were uncertain if we were going to run our Garden Center or simply call all our suppliers and cancel our Spring orders.

    Thank goodness the Governor declared that Garden stores were an essential business that could be open for business. We rallied our long time staff to step up to the plate, called in my carpenter and developed a Covid safe outdoor sales area and the cars just started rolling in like I have never seen in my long career here. Every day people thanked us for being here for them and gardening was being rediscovered across Maine and the Nation. The supply chain became our biggest challenge as it was for so many businesses but we got through the Spring, Summer, and Fall with so many new customers and all our old time customers so appreciative of keeping our doors open.

    I feel that this pandemic has been a wake up call to all of humanity that we need to start slowing the pace of “Progress” and focus more energy in the sustainability of our Planet and Mankind

  • December 21, 2020

    Since my clients are the companies that make and sell SARS-CoV-2 tests, this has been a record-breaking year for business profitability and growth.

  • December 21, 2020

    While 2020 was OK, I think 2021 will be worse for my business. More businesses will fail by Spring and that will hurt our sales.