By Sebastian Bennage, NEWS CENTER Maine MAINE, USA — Bangor Savings Bank has been named ninth on the Forbes 2020 “World’s Best Banks” list. This comes as a jump from being listed 13th on the last year’s rankings. This placement on Forbes list makes Bangor Savings Bank is the highest Maine-based institution of 75…
By Staff, Mainebiz The Maine State Council of the Society for Human Resources Management has announced the winners in the 14th annual “Best Places to Work in Maine” program, and this year’s list comprises 100 businesses, the most ever. The Best Places to Work in Maine list recognizes companies that have established and consistently fostered…
By Verrill Dana LLP PORTLAND — After the recent recognition from Law360 as one of the top law firms in the country for female partners, Verrill Dana has again been recognized as one of the top law firms in the country for gender equality by The National Law Journal in the 2019 “NLJ 500 Women’s Scorecard” for…
By Laurie Schreiber, Mainebiz A Brunswick-based maker of marine plant-based nutritional supplements is now manufacturing and distributing its first commercial product. Field Phyto-Nutrients, based at Brunswick Landing’s TechPlace, is refining a production process that uses algae as raw material. FPN’s first commercial algae-based pet health supplement, SmartZYME, is now in commercial production and being…
By Renee Cordes, Mainebiz Sheryl McQuade, TD Bank’s new regional president for northern New England, is aiming to expand the bank’s footprint on several fronts. They include being open to new brick-and-mortar locations, which TD refers to as “stores,” and adding commercial banking staff. “We are trying to grow that business, and it’s all about people,” the…
By Staff Mainebiz The University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine will lead a federally funded effort aimed at transforming primary health care for older Mainers. A total of $3.75 million in funding for UNE’s Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program comes via a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources…
By Adam Rapoport, Editor in Chief, Bon Appétit “Wait, you’re going to Maine, too?” That was a common refrain in the halls of BA last week, as more than a few of us editors discovered that we had all basically planned the same 4th of July escape. You could attribute this coincidence to the fact that we named Portland…
By Staff Mainebiz Hydro-Québec and Central Maine Power Co. announced Thursday they had signed an agreement with Massachusetts electric distribution companies to bring hydropower from Quebec to the Bay State via a 145-mile transmission line through Maine. Read more…
By Staff Mainebiz Maine has a shortage of commercial truck drivers, so Dead River Co. donated five trucks to a new training center at Eastern Maine Community College. The Commercial Driver’s License Training Center at EMCC’s Bangor campus will address the statewide shortage of qualified drivers for heavy equipment. Read more…
BY RENEE CORDES When Guy Langevin heard his primary-care doctor was moving away, he used the Grand Rounds mobile app to find a new one. The Dead River Co. vice president and chief administrative officer had helped bring Grand Rounds, a San Francisco-based digital health start-up, to the Lewiston-Auburn area in 2016 in his role…