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The expansion into the former Rosemont Market space will allow for events and private parties. Bissell Brothers is Maine's sixth-largest brewer.

The coffee company plans to close down retail operations at Thompson's Point to focus on roastery operations, production and wholesaling out of that location.

The Indus Fund is a new microloan program for small business owners in Maine’s growing immigrant community.

The Next List was originally designed to highlight the people who were changing Maine’s economy, who were on the rise. Some of them were on the young side, but not all. It was more about the energy and vision a person was bringing to a project. This year we present seven leaders who are carving out new territory. Like a lot of businesspeople in the past 18 months, they’ve had their ups and downs. But how they responded is also part of why they’re being honored. Here are some of my favorite quotes from the Q&As with these leaders:

Originally from Rwanda, Mwenedata is expanding his business in southern Maine, and giving back half of the company's profits to coffee growers in the country of his birth.