Story Categories: Women's Business Center

Watershed Floral

Though Sarah Ann Lapine has been a professional floral designer for 10 years, seven of them full-time, her current career…

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Mary Jane’s Slice of Heaven

CEI Women's Business Center client Mary Ellis Jamison always dreamed of opening a small restaurant with great food and drinks. With…

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The Blueberries of Welch Farm

Tourism is one of Maine’s largest industries, supporting nearly 110,000 jobs, or roughly 1 out of every 6 jobs in…

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Experience Maine

Being a tourist-based business in Maine is nothing new, but the quarantine limitations and restrictions place on it this tourist…

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Windham Butcher Shop

Nichole and Leon Sargent define Maine’s entrepreneurial spirit.  They now live on a small hobby farm, Nichole downsizing her heard…

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Guru Vintage + Modern

A graduate of fashion merchandising and management at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, Kristan Green dreamed of…

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OurShelves

As one parent in a two-mom household, Alli Harper wasn’t seeing enough of families like hers nor many other kids…

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Maven Seats & Maven Leather

Emma Thieme’s father piqued her interest in motorcycles by taking her out for rides, while Emma’s mother instilled a love…

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Woods + Waters Gear Exchange

Q&A with Jenna Vanni, business owner Learn about how owner Jenna Vanni launched her outdoor apparel and gear consignment store…

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Hearth and Harrow

Hearth and Harrow is an eco-friendly screen printing studio based in Rockport. They specialize in designing and hand-printing organic, nature-inspired…

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