L.L.Bean closes Sunday morning to honor Leon Gorman
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Leon Gorman, longtime president and chairman of L.L.Bean
L.L.Bean closed its Freeport stores for four hours Sunday morning to honor Leon Gorman, longtime president and chairman of the company’s board, who died Sept. 3 at age 80 after battling cancer. More than 500 people attended his memorial service in Westbrook on Sunday.
The Portland Press Herald reported that during Sunday’s memorial service Mark Swann, executive director of the Preble Street Resource Center in Portland, announced the nonprofit’s volunteer-of-the-year award would be named after Leon Gorman in honor of his volunteering at the agency’s soup kitchen every Wednesday for 12 years.
Gorman led the Freeport-based company as CEO or chairman for 46 years before retiring as chairman of the board in 2013. He retained the title of "chairman emeritus." During his tenure L.L.Bean was transformed from a catalog company with a single retail store and 100 employees into a multi-channel retailer with more than 5,000 employees and sales topping $1.5 billion.
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