For the first time in its 108-year history, the Freeport retailer had a collection shown on a fashion runway in New York Wednesday. The clothes will be on sale in the fall.
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Posted inBusiness, Lewiston-Auburn, Times Record
L.L.Bean cuts 200 jobs, plans to close Lewiston call center in 2021
L.L.Bean has been in the historic Peck Building on Main Street since 1988.
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Posted inBusiness, Maine, News, Times Record
Freeport considers tax break for L.L. Bean headquarters expansion
The retailer is requesting a $10 million tax increment financing district that could help offset its future property tax costs and fund community projects.
Posted inCoastal Journal, Maine, The Forecaster, Times Record
L.L. Bean nixes corporate relocation in favor of expansion
Maine’s most iconic business had contemplated a move from Freeport before deciding to increase its downtown footprint.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Maine retailers plug into online connections to boost their holiday sales
Many Maine companies are looking to the web to augment in-store sales even more than in recent years.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Maine
As attitudes, laws around working mothers evolve, BIW installs lactation facilities
To be in compliance with Maine state law, an employer must provide a space, other than a bathroom, for nursing mothers to express breast milk for up to 3 years after childbirth.
Posted inNorthern Forecaster, The Forecaster
L.L. Bean partners with Husson University on employee MBAs
The onsite program will let workers pursue a degree in business administration while on the job.
Posted inBusiness, Maine
L.L. Bean heir and wife donate $1 million to Mercy Hospital
Leon L. Bean’s grandson James Gorman and his wife, Maureen Gorman, contributed to the Portland hospital’s $20 million relocation campaign.
Posted inBusiness, Maine
L.L. Bean to open first Canadian store
The new retail store is part of a larger expansion into America’s northern neighbor.
Posted inMaine, News
L.L.Bean teases summer concert series lineup: Gone West, AJR, Mat Kearney
FREEPORT — L.L.Bean is thinking summer and songs. The iconic Maine retailer teased a partial lineup for its annual free summer concert series Friday. Playing Summer in the Park so far: July 4: The War And Treaty, a husband and wife duo whose music Rolling Stone called “joyous, gospel-style harmonizing with superb country-soul arrangements and […]