From small businesses like Franklin Printing to larger players such as Puritan Medical Products and Bath Iron Works, Maine manufacturers are getting more strategic about recruiting and hiring as many of their older employees retire.
In 2011, McAleer had a great idea: break into the organic foods market with a good-for-you candy bar, a sector of the exploding industry that hadn’t yet been tapped. Not all great ideas for startups succeed, but hers did.
OpBox plans to use its $25,000 prize money to document and create content for its first OpBox Village, in South Boston, according to the company's co-founder, Ben Davis.