Our world according to Dun & Bradstreet.

By Colin W. Sargent

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’t going to let his loyal employees down.

Pierce went on a mission to rebuild his business, redefine it, and retool—which 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’re probably being visited by Dingley every day—via catalogs such as Wayfair that go all over the world. Dingley Press is working its way toward the top half of The Maine 100^™. You’ve gotta have heart.

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. 

Evan Livada of Livada Securities wrote me an email last week: “With 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.” At least we can assume they’re Red Sox fans. 

1. $4.339B Covetrus, Portland

2. $2.707B IDEXX Laboratories, Westbrook

3. $1.56B WEX, Portland

4. $1.058B Cianbro, Pittsfield

5. $803.338M L. L. Bean, Freeport

6. $380.655M Dead River Company, South Portland

7. $362.426M VIP Tires & Service, Auburn

8. $265.146M C. N. Brown Energy, South Paris

9. $252.484M Woodard & Curran, Portland

10. $207.69M Camden National Bank, Camden

11. $200M Dysart’s, Bangor

12. $174.946M Maine Mutual Group, Presque Isle

13. $172.191M Marden’s, Winslow

14. $169.06M Bar Harbor Bank & Trust, Bar Harbor

15. $162.616M MEMIC, Portland

16. $154.146M Hartt Transportation Systems, Bangor

17. $151.873M Darling’s, Brewer

18. $149.885M Fabian Oil, Oakland

19. $148.457M Cross Insurance, Bangor

20. $146.455M Geiger Bros., Lewiston

21. $141.555M Woodland Pulp, Baileyville

22. $140.719M Bangor Savings Bank, Bangor

23. $132.633M Hancock Lumber, Casco

24. $130.264M Falcon Holdings, Presque Isle

25. $130.101M Sargent Corporation, Stillwater

26. $130M GreenPages, Kittery

27. $129.676M Stonewall Kitchen, York

28. $116.498M NRF Distributors, Augusta

29. $112.01M Tilson Technology, Portland

30. $110.811M Everett J. Prescott, Gardiner

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