{"id":20488,"date":"2021-09-30T11:21:26","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T15:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=20488"},"modified":"2021-09-30T11:21:26","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T15:21:26","slug":"the-maine-100-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/the-maine-100-4\/","title":{"rendered":"The Maine 100\u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23e6e6e6&amp;d=portland_monthly_magazine_october_2021&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=24&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Our world according to Dun &amp; Bradstreet.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">By Colin W. Sargent<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">DINGLEY PRESS was devastated in 1981. L.L. Bean, their premier client since World War II, announced a change in its catalog printing specifications to rotogravure. Dingley had specifically keyed its presses for the retailer. Whispers went through local publishing businesses that Dingley was imperiled. But Dingley owner Chris Pierce wasn\u2019t going to let his loyal employees down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Pierce went on a mission to rebuild his business, redefine it, and retool\u2014which he accomplished successfully. Years later, he sold the business, missed the railroad clatter of his presses running, and bought it back again. Right now, you\u2019re probably being visited by Dingley every day\u2014via catalogs such as Wayfair that go all over the world. Dingley Press is working its way toward the top half of The Maine 100<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>\u2122<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\">. You\u2019ve gotta have heart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">The filters for this report are: 1) must be headquartered in Maine and 2) is a for-profit business. But COVID melts the edges of things like state borders almost as quickly as technology does.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Evan Livada of Livada Securities wrote me an email last week: \u201cWith the mobility of working from home, who really knows what is a Maine company? I played golf the other day with a guy who just moved here and is CFO of a multi-billion dollar company based in Massachusetts.\u201d At least we can assume they\u2019re Red Sox fans.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">1. $4.339B Covetrus, Portland<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">2. $2.707B IDEXX Laboratories, Westbrook<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">3. $1.56B WEX, Portland<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">4. $1.058B Cianbro, Pittsfield<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">5. $803.338M L. L. Bean, Freeport<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">6. $380.655M Dead River Company, South Portland<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">7. $362.426M VIP Tires &amp; Service, Auburn<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">8. $265.146M C. N. Brown Energy, South Paris<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">9. $252.484M Woodard &amp; Curran, Portland<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">10. $207.69M Camden National Bank, Camden<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">11. $200M Dysart\u2019s, Bangor<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">12. $174.946M Maine Mutual Group, Presque Isle<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">13. $172.191M Marden&#8217;s, Winslow<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">14. $169.06M Bar Harbor Bank &amp; Trust, Bar Harbor<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">15. $162.616M MEMIC, Portland<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">16. $154.146M Hartt Transportation Systems, Bangor<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">17. $151.873M Darling&#8217;s, Brewer<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">18. $149.885M Fabian Oil, Oakland<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">19. $148.457M Cross Insurance, Bangor<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">20. $146.455M Geiger Bros., Lewiston<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">21. $141.555M Woodland Pulp, Baileyville<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">22. $140.719M Bangor Savings Bank, Bangor<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">23. $132.633M Hancock Lumber, Casco<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">24. $130.264M Falcon Holdings, Presque Isle<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">25. $130.101M Sargent Corporation, Stillwater<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">26. $130M GreenPages, Kittery<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">27. $129.676M Stonewall Kitchen, York<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">28. $116.498M NRF Distributors, Augusta<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">29. $112.01M Tilson Technology, Portland<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">30. $110.811M Everett J. Prescott, Gardiner<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-20489\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/OCT21-TheMaine100-1024x538.jpg\" alt=\"OCT21 TheMaine100\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/OCT21-TheMaine100-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/OCT21-TheMaine100-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/OCT21-TheMaine100-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/OCT21-TheMaine100-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/OCT21-TheMaine100-620x326.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/OCT21-TheMaine100.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our world according to Dun &#038; Bradstreet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20490,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20488"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20556,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20488\/revisions\/20556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}