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W W W. M A I N E B I Z . B I Z 15 M AY 3 0 , 2 0 1 6 He sells about 60% of his beans retail and 40% wholesale, but he'd like to double the wholesale part of the equation to 80% of revenue in two years. He declines to give an exact number, but says revenue was between $250,000 and $500,000 in 2015, and he hopes that will rise 10% this year. He says the company has basically been in a holding pattern the last couple years as he completed the rebranding to Speckled Ax. Speckled Ax sells through its own Portland coff ee shop and to Rosemont Market, Whole Foods, Black Cat Coff ee and Frontier Restaurant in Brunswick. Bolinder says Frontier plans to open a new coff ee shop in the next couple months that will use his coff ee. Along with the branding change to help boost sales, he plans to open another coff ee shop at some point in the future. He also plans to start a coff ee truck in the next couple months that would be used for coff ee deliveries to help market the brand as well as coff ee sales at fairs and other events. Trucks selling craft coff ee are another part of the craft coff ee craze in Maine. Among other trucks are the Gorham Grind's "Flo" Anywhere Coff ee Bar and the Sugarbird Coff ee Truck, which sells wood- roasted coff ee from UnRest Roasters. Coff ee drink- ers can fi nd Flo's location on her Facebook page and Sugarbird lovers can fi nd its truck on the company's website. It truly is coff ee on the run. As Bolinder of Speckled Ax says, "Portland is a relatively small town, and the percentage of micro- roast coff ee that is good is relatively high." L V, Mainebiz senior writer, can be reached a t @ . a n d @ LV P H O T O / T I M G R E E N WAY P H O T O / T I M G R E E N WAY Speckled Ax's Matt Bolinder adds wood to his Petroncini roaster where he is roasting Ethiopian beans.

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