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In 2017, Tilson Technology Management moved from its offices on Commercial Street to a new 16,000-square-foot space at 16 Middle St., also in Portland. Tilson plans to add up to 100 employees in the next three years. Mainebiz spoke with CEO Joshua Broder about his decision to expand in Maine.

Maine’s business community proves itself time and again as innovative and resourceful. There are daily challenges, such...

Maine is well known for lobster rolls, whoopie pies and wild blueberries. But the state’s Yankee ingenuity...

Maine’s tourism, trade, real estate and craft brewery industries all enjoyed rising tides in 2017, while the...

WEX Inc. broke ground last year on new 100,000-square-foot headquarters on Portland’s waterfront, which is expected to open in 2019. The company, which employs more than 1,000 people in South Portland and 3,300 worldwide, plans to relocate up to 450 employees to the new headquarters. WEX (NYSE: WEX), Maine’s second-largest publicly traded company, provides corporate payment solutions and had $1.25 billion in revenues in 2017.

As the nation’s economy has evolved to be knowledge-based and technology-driven, Maine is well-positioned to produce the knowledge workers to fuel future growth.

Thos. Moser Handmade American Furniture has made chairs for presidential libraries and gifts for CEOs and dignitaries from its Maine headquarters and workshop. A replica of the so-called “speaker’s chair” of the Congressional Congress was recently presented to author David McCullough in Philadelphia. Moser furniture is in boardrooms and law firms around the world.

Bangor Savings Bank has been on a bit of a growth spurt. Since 2016, the company opened...

The path through higher education and into a satisfying future is often circuitous. For many of our students at the University of Southern Maine — 52% of whom are...

In late spring, IDEXX Laboratories Inc., lead by Chairman and CEO Jonathan Ayers, broke ground on a...