Success stories
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Maine 2024 Small Business Person of the Year, Matt Polstein, New England Outdoor Center
While people from away might only see Maine as the place to visit the coast and get a lobster roll, Mainers and fellow New Englanders know that our state also has some of the best outdoor activities...
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New England 2024 Minority Owned Small Business of the Year Maiz
While Maine might not jump out as the place to find good Colombian food, Maiz and its owners Niky Amaris and Martha Leonard are proving that assumption wrong. The couple met ten years ago in Cartagena...
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Maine 2024 Small Business Manufacturer of the Year The Good Crust
Starting a business at any time is an incredible challenge and a courageous act, starting a business in 2020 in the midst of the Covid pandemic even more so. That was the case for Heather Kerner with...
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Maine 2024 Woman Owned Small Business of the Year Tiller & Rye
Opening a grocery store may seem like a relatively straightforward path to business ownership, but with Tiller & Rye there is much more to it. Owners Sarah and Lindsey came from very different...
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Maine 2024 Microenterprise of the Year Graze, LLC
Hearing the phrase “Maine made” or “Maine grown” tends to evoke a sense of wholesome, quality products that are good for you. Kate Hall’s business, Graze, lives up to that reputation easily...
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Maine Small Business Exporter of the Year Belle Cove
If there is one Maine product that is instantly recognizable as ours nationwide and around the world, it’s lobsters, and that makes them integral to Maine’s coastal economy. When Grace Philips moved...
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Maine 2024 Veteran Owned Business of the Year Shore Shop Gifts
It’s clear that as retail businesses have become consolidated in large companies that small businesses have difficulty competing, that’s even more so for businesses based in rural areas, and...
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Maine 2024 Home Based Business of the Year Studio Choo11
While many of the headline grabbing businesses tend to be large manufacturers and bring massive numbers of jobs into a town, the reality is that the overwhelming majority of small businesses here in...