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W W W. M A I N E B I Z . B I Z 3 Fact Book / Doing Business in Maine C O N T E N T S Copyright 2020. All rights reserved. Mainebiz® (ISSN# 1530-0749) is published bi-weekly 29 times a year, including special issues published in July, September, October and December by New England Business Media LLC. Periodicals postage paid (USPS# 018-715) at Port land, ME and at additional entry points. Postmaster: Please send changes to: Mainebiz, PO Box 330, Congers, NY 10920-0330. Annual subscriptions are available for $47.95 and include Fact Book and Book of Lists. To subscribe, please visit our website at www.mainebiz.biz, email mainebiz@cambeywest.com or call our circulation department at 845-267-3008. Mainebiz® accepts no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts and in general does not return them to the sender. Subscriber list: We make a portion of our subscriber list available to reputable firms for one-time use. If you would prefer that we not include your name, please call Donna Brassard at 207-761-8379 x327 or email her at donnab@mainebiz.biz. View Fact Book online at mainebiz.biz/digitaledition PUBLISHER: Donna Brassard EDITOR: Peter Van Allen DIGITAL EDITOR: William Hall SENIOR WRITERS: Renee Cordes, Maureen Milliken, Laurie Schreiber CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Mark Jeanneret, Jim Milliken RESEARCH DIRECTOR: Timothy Doyle RESEARCH ASSISTANT: Heide Martin ART DIRECTOR: Matt Selva ADVERTISING SALES DIRECTOR: Andrea Tetzlaff SENIOR ACCOUNT MANAGERS: Ken Hanson, Betsy VanderPloeg MARKETING/OPERATIONS DIRECTOR: Alison Nason A division of New England Business Media LLC C E O : Peter Stanton PRESIDENT: Tom Curtin C F O / C O O : Mary Rogers GROUP PUBLISHER: Donna Brassard DIGITAL DIRECTOR: Jan Holder 200 200 In the 1880s, Sanford's Goodall Mills produced mohair plush from angora goat wool, ideal for carriage robes and warm-weather Palm Beach suits, bringing thousands of workers from many countries. Bill Sherman established W.H. Sherman Printer & Stationer in Bar Harbor in 1886. It later became Sherman's Bookstore and eventually expanded elsewhere. Rupert "Rupe" G. Johnson (1902–74), a Standish teacher and coach, started making baseball bats as a hobby at his Brownfield home in 1927, attracting attention from major leaguers. R.G. Johnson Co., now located in Denmark, Maine, is born. Belfast's poultry, sardine, and potato companies dominated the waterfront in the 1950s, earning the nickname Broiler Capital of the World. The Broiler Day festival in July featured barbeque chicken. IDEAS FOR MAINE'S BICENTENNIAL Q UA L I T Y O F L I F E 2020 will be a year for hindsight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 12 things that define Maine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Q&A with entrepreneur Lisa Liberatore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 An entrepreneur with a knack for Main Street businesses What $237,800 buys you in Maine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Maine's median sales price keeps climbing, but how much you get depends on where you are List: Maine's most popular tourist attractions . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Q&A with Cary Tyson of Portland Downtown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 New leader takes over Portland Downtown Q&A with Kevin Hancock of Hancock Lumber Co. . . . . . . . . . . 26 A CEO who redirects the idea of 'power' Demographic data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Population, education, income, housing, finance' S P E C I A L A DV E R T I S I N G S E C T I O N Economic development profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 B U S I N E S S R E S O U R C E S Maine SBA staff listing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 SBA's resource partners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 SCORE, Small Business Development Centers, Women's Business Centers SBA business loans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Basic 7(a) Loan program, company loan programs (504 Loans, microloan program SBA contracting programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 HUBZone, Women-owned Small Business Federal Contract Program, Service-disabled veteran- owned small business, Maine Procurement Technical Assistance Center, Small Disadvantaged Business, 8(a) Business Development Program Commentary: 6 Lessons from the lemonade stand . . . . . . . . . 50 How to build a conscious business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 FAME offers financing to Maine small businesses . . . . . . . . . 52 How to weather this crisis as a nonprofit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 How to know when to trademark — and when not to . . . . . . . . 55 Q&A with Nikki Strout of Rugged Seas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 An entrepeneur who doesn't think of herself as an entrepreneur How to choose the best commercial lease for your business . . 58 How to strengthen your board and your competitive edge . . . . 59 Manufacturing resources are abundant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 The Manufacturing Extension Partnership offers help I N N OVAT I O N / R & D Q&A with Katie Shorey of Startup Maine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 A force of nature in Maine's startup scene List: Maine's largest brewers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 List: Maine's largest chambers of commerce . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 List: Maine's National Institutes of Health grant recipients . . . 69 WO R K F O R C E Employment data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 I N F R A S T R U C T U R E / D I S T R I B U T I O N Infrastructure map. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Airports, intermodal facilities, deep water ports, rail lines, Amtrak service, priority roads Energy data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Maine's Breweries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 List: Largest Maine-based construction companies . . . . . . . . 84 List: Maine's largest business and industrial parks . . . . . . . . 85 Import / export data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 M E E T I N G S / E V E N T S List: Maine's largest hotels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

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