Business Partners

Listen to our business partners talk about why employing people with disabilities makes good business sense for their companies. Hear about: reliability, loyalty, diversity, and consumer goodwill.

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Annie Darling (left) and Catherine Breer (right)
of annie/catherine

annie/catherine is a company located in Westbrook, Maine that creates and distributes stationery products and accessories, including cards, holiday and note card sets, limited edition prints, calendars and wrapping paper. The company, founded in 2004 by Annie Darling and Catherine Breer, recently hired Danny Winship, an illustrator who is deaf. We asked Catherine Breer to tell us about the experience of hiring and working with Danny.
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Susan Faloon
Bangor Hydro Electric Company

Bangor Hydro Electric Company (BHE) has successfully employed people with a disability for many years. "We believe that work is an important part of everyone's life," said Susan Faloon, BHE's communications officer. Employees with a disability, including those that require accommodation to perform their work, work in the same positions as non-disabled employees, such as in the call center and line operations.
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Jennifer Simpson, Human Resources Manager
Custom Disability Solutions

Custom Disability Solutions
Maine's Custom Disability Solutions is a provider of comprehensive reinsurance solutions and services such as Underwriting, Actuarial, Claims, and Marketing to some of the country's most respected health and life insurance carriers. After implementing a workforce development strategy that included hiring and retaining people with disabilities, Custom Disability Solutions became an employer of choice and boosted their marketplace advantage. Go here to read more!

photograph of the Four Seasons Restaurant in Jackman, Maine

Four Seasons Restaurant, Jackman, Maine

Four Seasons Restaurant For the past 11 years, Alan DuPlessis has owned the Four Seasons Restaurant at 417 Main Street in Jackman. The restaurant is open for three meals a day, hosts private functions, and provides off-site catering services. In addition to its dining services, the restaurant has been attracting attention for its diverse staff of twenty that included youths with disabilities. Go here to read more!

A driver from Maine Oxy

Maine Oxy For three generations, the Albiston family has managed Maine Oxy, steadily growing the company to become a provider of welding products, industrial gases, and specialty gases throughout Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts.

Talking to Maine Oxy employees, you get the sense that this company understands the value each of the 140 people who work there. So, when four Maine Oxy employees were called up to active duty in 2004, it was no surprise that the company stepped up to help the deployed guardsmen and their families. Go here to read more!

Governor John E. Baldacci

Maine State Government
As one of the Maine's largest employers, state government can serve as an example and a resource to other employers interested in hiring workers with disabilities. Go here to read more!

April Clark

Manpower Inc.
Can diversity hiring help my business? “Yes!” says April Clark, Vice President & Regional Director of Manpower Inc., a leader in the employment services industry.

Employee retention and morale are critical to all successful businesses. “We are known in the community as a place where one can get a good job, regardless of ethnicity, disability, age or gender,” says Clark. Go here to read more!

Rebecca Sheperd
Owner of Wild Oats Bakery, Brunswick, Maine

Wild Oats Bakery & Café
The Wild Oats Bakery & Café has been providing breads, cakes, cookies and pies to customers in Brunswick, Maine since 1991. Over the years, the bakery's staff, menu and reputation have grown. In addition to baked goods, the bakery now offers hot entrees, sandwiches and soups, and its staff numbers over 20. Go here to read more!

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