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Maine's largest woman-owned businesses
Ranked by number of Maine employees
ALTERNATE RANKING:
OLDEST WOMAN-OWNED COS.
2
Year
founded
1 Hancock Lumber
Casco
1848
2 H.E. Callahan
Construction Co.
Auburn
1948
3 Champoux Insurance
Group
Lewiston
1954
4 Ganneston
Construction Corp.
Augusta
1963
5 Auburn Manufacturing
Inc.
Mechanic Falls
1979
6 ASK…for Home Care
South Thomaston
1982
7 Standard
Waterproofing Inc.
Winslow
1984
8 Burgess Advertising &
Marketing
Falmouth
1986
9 Planson International
New Gloucester
1989
10 Marshall
Communications
Augusta
1991
11 MERT Enterprises
Bangor
1992
12 Grampa's Garden Inc.
Topsham
1993
13 Birchbrook
Bangor
1994
14 Dean & Allyn Inc.
Gray
1995
15 Williams Brothers
Construction
Saco
2000
16 Black Bear Ladder Inc.
Lisbon
2000
17 Grace Noonan-Kaye &
Associates
Little Deer Isle
2000
18 Schumacher Creative
Design
South Berwick
2000
19 Rinck Advertising Inc.
Lewiston
2001
20 Sealander Architects
Ellsworth
2001
1 Chocolate cafe located in Waterville and chocolate Boutique located inside Rockland
Chocolate Factory
2 Out of the 45 companies that responded to the 2023 survey
This list was compiled by Heide Martin and published in the Aug. 7, 2023 issue of Mainebiz.
S O U R C E : Each company via survey.
