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Caravan Beads and
Howell Ltd. test
new color imaging
technology
B
arry Kahn and Paul Howell have
been in business long enough to
qualify as entrepreneurs several times over.
In Kahn's case, as co-owner with
his wife of Caravan Beads in Portland,
he earned his entrepreneur's stripes by
seizing key opportunities that came his
way to quickly build what started as a
hobby business in into what is now
a successful wholesaler and retailer of
multi-colored glass and clay beads used
by both amateur and professional jewelry
artists from around the world. Howell,
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24 Law firm expands practice
Eaton Peabody
expands its benefits
practice in Portland
with the addition of
Wakelin, Hallock and
O'Donovan LLP.
32 COA 'hatches' entrepreneurs
College of the
Atlantic in Bar Harbor
established The
Hatchery to help
budding business
owners.
39 When the power goes out ...
Bison Pumps in
Houlton finds a
growing market for
manual water pumps
that work when the
power doesn't.
The University of Maine tops our list of
Maine's largest colleges and universities.
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Going
Downtown
Redevelopment projects aim to put the 'cool'
back into Maine's downtowns
Eric Dyer, general manager
of the Gardiner Food Co-op,
which opened in downtown
Gardiner in May.
$2.00
September 7, 2015
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