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Six Questions for the CEO: Rick Rioux, Maine’s Mr. Internet-only Radio

Rick Rioux is president of Central Maine Internet Broadcasting and started WQRY106.com out of his Lisbon home six years ago. The internet-only radio station is growing talent (from eight people at the start to now 20) and claims the spot of Maine’s biggest internet-only radio station. The station will be broadcasting live from the Moxie […]

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Six Questions for the CEO: Jason Agren, plugged into the appliance market

Jason Agren’s father founded Agren Appliance and four years ago, he bought the business from him. Headquartered in Auburn, the company has five retail locations, two warehouses, 86 employees and plans to keep on growing. 1. How many roles have you held within the company? My father made it very clear that the more jobs […]

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Six Questions for the CEO: Dr. Dan Mingle, making good business out of good health

Family physician-turned-high-tech-entrepreneur Dan Mingle oversees 50 employees at Mingle Analytics, headquartered in South Paris. Staff telecommute from 11 states. He didn’t expect to be able to grow the business while staying in Oxford Hills, but it’s working. 1. What do medical practices hire Mingle Analytics to do? Medicare is trying to broker a change in […]

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Six Questions For The CEO: Mike Nadeau, dispensing good health

Mike Nadeau is president and CEO of Bedard Pharmacy & Medical Supplies. A third-generation pharmacist, he’s grown the family-owned business which he purchased from his father, and it now has two pharmacy locations and up to 63 employees. 1. At what position did you first start in the company? My first job at Bedard many years […]

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Six Questions for the CEO: Peter Rinck, marketing and growing

CEO Peter Rinck founded Rinck Advertising in Auburn in 2001. Laura Rinck, his wife, is company president and his 94-year-old father, Larry, a seasoned advertising executive, recently joined the fold. 1. Describe a day in the life for you at Rinck. Every single day is different in so many ways. I tend to take care […]

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Six Questions for the CEO: Roy Forsberg, innkeeping 2.0

Roy Forsberg has been a software engineer, built Internet routers and worked at a company that provided speech recognition software for Apple’s Siri. The Massachusetts man ditched that high-tech life to be an innkeeper. He and wife, Sue, who still works in high tech, but telecommutes, bought the Wolf Cove Inn in Poland in December […]

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Six Questions for the CEO: Don Grant, baking good business

Don Grant’s parents founded Grant’s Bakery in 1956 and he started there at the ripe age of 9. Now president and treasurer, he still works the pie line, decorates cakes, keeps the books and could tell you how many rolls were made on May 18, 2000, (360), how many angel cakes on May 18, 2005, […]