Businesses could help make their communities healthier, according to a recent national report — but Maine is already leading the way. Whether by partnering with local YMCAs and nonprofits to expand community health programs, creating healthier products, giving to charity, or volunteering time, expertise or resources, the private sector could play a much greater role […]
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L.L. Bean continues retail expansion, opening Kansas store
PORTLAND — L.L. Bean plans to open a store outside of Kansas City, Kansas, later this year, marking the retailer’s 26th bricks-and-mortar store outside Maine and the latest in a series of expansion announcements. The company this year has announced expansions to Richmond, Va., Cleveland, Ohio, and Columbus, Ohio, and this week announced the expansion […]
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Brenda Beaulieu
1950 – 2015 LEWISTON — Brenda Beaulieu, 64, of Lisbon, passed away peacefully on Sunday, July 19, at d’Youville Pavilion, with her family by her side. Born in Lewiston on Dec. 31, 1950, the daughter of Eugene and Geraldine Alward, she graduated from Edward Little High School in 1968. Brenda worked for many years at […]
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Ronda M. Ballard
1970 – 2015 PORTLAND — Ronda Mary Ballard, 45, of Mechanic Falls, died Saturday, July 4, at Maine Medical Center of an aneurysm. As she left this world, she gave her kidneys to two recipients as a gift of life, allowing them to be taken off dialysis. She was born on April 21, 1970, in […]
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Puppy sold separately: A day at the L.L. Bean catalog photo shoot
WESTBROOK — Prada was sleepy, right up until someone set her on the bed. That’s when she wanted to play. Explore. Leap into the arms of art director Meredith Brockington for a cuddle. A puppy diving off L.L. Bean’s green plaid comforter? Not quite the cozy photo the company was going for in its 2015 […]
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L.L. Bean to open New York outlet near Adirondack Mountains
QUEENSBURY, N.Y. — L.L. Bean plans to open its first outlet store in New York state at a popular shopping complex near the Adirondack Mountains. The Freeport, Maine-based outdoors outfitter expects to open the store in August at the Adirondack Outlet Mall on Route 9 in Queensbury, just south of the tourist village of Lake […]
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L.L. Bean to shift job responsibilities from Lewiston
LEWISTON — By the end of the year, L.L. Bean’s Lewiston call center employees will stop auditing orders as part of their job and will focus more on customer service. Audits — checking to make sure orders are processed correctly — will instead be done from Costa Rica, where L.L. Bean has had an office […]
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L.L. Bean to focus on smaller stores in expansion
FREEPORT, Maine (AP) — L.L. Bean is preparing for the largest number of store openings in the company’s history, but they won’t be megastores along the lines of Bass Pro Shops or Cabela’s. The Maine-based outdoors outfitter will be aiming for smaller stores, along the lines of 15,000 square feet apiece, instead of larger stores […]
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Catalog retailer L.L. Bean to triple domestic stores by 2020
The Maine-based company, which is coming off five years of increasing revenue, will open four stores this year before accelerating growth with a goal of at least 100 by 2020, CEO Chris McCormick told workers in a memo. The retail push will include L.L. Bean Inc.’s first West Coast presence with the opening of stores […]
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L.L. Bean announces retail expansion plans
FREEPORT — L.L. Bean, known for selling its trademark boots via catalog for more than a century, plans to make a bigger push into brick-and-mortar retail by more than tripling the number of locations over the next five years, officials said Wednesday. The Maine-based company, which is coming off five years of increasing revenue, will […]