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Creative economy
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Mainebiz Women to Watch alumni: Checking in on past winners
August 8, 2016Mainebiz's annual Women to Watch has become a who's who of female business leaders across the state. We've decided to take a look back at some of our previous honorees to see where they are today.
August 8, 2016Maine tourism office awards $57K in grants
August 2, 2016The Maine Office of Tourism awarded grants totaling $57,675 to seven groups in the most recent round of the Tourism Enterprise Marketing Grant program.
August 2, 2016
Changes afoot in Portland's art scene
July 22, 2016Art lovers will notice big changes in Portland's art galleries as one is sold, another is closed and a third will close next month.
July 22, 2016
Moosehead Marine Museum reaps $10,000 grant
July 21, 2016The Moosehead Marine Museum, which draws 7,500 visitors to the region annually, has nabbed a $10,000 grant for database upgrades.
July 21, 2016Pop-Up art gallery highlights downtown Augusta
June 22, 2016Peter Precourt, a professor of art at the University of Maine at Augusta, is using a vacant storefront at 265 Water St. in the state's capital as a pop-up art gallery.
June 22, 2016Mainebiz picks up silver award in business publication contest
June 13, 2016Mainebiz picked up a silver award for its 2015 “Fact Book: Doing Business in Maine” in The Alliance of Area Business Publishers annual competition for newspaper and magazine business periodicals featuring 644 entries from 46 publications in the
June 13, 2016
A 120mph advertising spot for a South Portland company
May 20, 2016Billboards? Too bland. Popup advertising? That's old hat. Sponsored Facebook posts? Impersonal. Being the primary sponsor of a truck driven by a Fort Kent native in NASCAR's Camping World Truck Series? That's just the sort of promotion the South
May 20, 2016'Greenlight Maine' charges into second season
April 15, 2016Fans of “American Idol” looking to get their competitive television fix after the show called it a day last week might want to tune into “Greenlight Maine,” which pits some of the state's hungriest entrepreneurs against each other in a series of
April 15, 2016Birding meets beer tours with Birds on Tap
April 14, 2016Tiny-house food trucks? Old news. Portland's smallest nano-brewery? That's so last week. The Portland Press Herald took a look at one of the newest developments in Maine's vibrant culinary arts scene, Birds on Tap — which combines the tradition of
April 14, 2016
Tiny-house food truck could be a big hit in Portland
April 6, 2016A 28-year-old chef who studied culinary arts at Southern Maine Community College and worked for a stint as a cook at the Portland-based Ri Ra Irish Pub and Restaurant is combining two unlikely trends for his latest business venture — food trucks and
April 6, 2016Finalists announced for Congress Square redesign
March 28, 2016Portland's Planning & Urban Development Department has announced that it has narrowed the field down to four design teams as finalists for the Congress Square Redesign Project, after receiving a dozen submissions for the ambitious downtown
March 28, 2016
Social and environmental investments yield more than economic returns
March 21, 2016Investing in social and environmental causes used to be associated with tree huggers and other “do-gooders,” but in recent years it has hit the mainstream, with returns equaling or sometimes exceeding those of other stocks in a portfolio.
March 21, 2016Portland looks to establish Office for New Americans
March 16, 2016Portland City Council's Economic Development Committee will be holding a public hearing next week to discuss the founding of an Office for New Americans, an entity that would assist immigrants in starting a new business and entering the workforce.
March 16, 2016No conspiracy here: Masonry adapts to sustainability trends
March 10, 2016Boothbay Harbor-based Norton Stone & Tile, Joe Norton's business of building walls of stone and tile in artistic patterns, has proven profitable for more than a decade, the Boothbay Register reported.
March 10, 2016Tattoos for you too, Paris
March 9, 2016Can a tattoo parlor help with the revitalization of Market Square in Paris? Why not? According to the Advertiser Democrat, Explosive Ink in Paris, Maine, was recently opened by Carlos Portillo.
March 9, 2016BDN publishing company acquires Fort Kent news website
March 2, 2016The publisher behind one of the largest circulation newspapers in the state of Maine announced on Tuesday that it has obtained the Fort Kent-based news website Fiddlehead Focus, increasing statewide coverage to one of the northernmost points of the
March 2, 2016
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