Best Startup
This article showcases our top picks for the best Maine based Food and Beverage companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Food and Beverage industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
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Top Maine Food and Beverage Startups
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NibMor
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NibMor is a producer of chocolate products used to offer affordable chocolate options with health attributes.
R.e.d.d.
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R.E.D.D (Radiant Energy Deliciously Delivered) is low sugar, plant-based nutrition for a new generation.
Ocean Approved
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Ocean Approved is a provider of domestic, fresh, and healthy alternative to imported seaweed products.
Demers Food Group
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Demers Food Group primarily manufactures seafood appetizers and sell to a club and retail stores.
Gelato Fiasco
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Gelato Fiasco owns and operates an ice cream shop that offers ice cream in gelato and sorbetto flavors.
Black Point Seafood
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Black Point Seafood hand-selects the finest Maine lobster, seafood, and now beef products, and distribute throughout the U.S.
Maine Crisp Company
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Maine Crisp is a company that manufactures crisp snack products.
Tootie’s Tempeh
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Tootie’s Tempeh produces organic, plant-based food that is locally made, and friendly to the earth, human health, and animals.
Modernist Pantry
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Modernist Pantry is a branded manufacture of magical modern cooking ingredients and tools.
Points North Institute
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Points North Institute is a Producer of the Camden Film Festival.
Stonewall Kitchen
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Stonewall Kitchen produces a line of pre-prepared meals that can be found in grocery stores.
Banded Brewing
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Banded Brewing is a beer brewery that produces bottled and canned beers.
Simply Served
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Simply Served crafts sauces that taste great, with affordable prices, and are fun to cook with and eat.
Jasper Wyman & Son
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Jasper Wyman & Son brings you the finest quality fruit from our own fields.
Songbird Farm
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Songbird Farm is a small certified organic mixed vegetable and grain farm.
Native Maine Produce & Specialty Foods
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Native Maine Produce & Specialty Foods is the largest independent fresh foodservice distributor in Maine.
Pacifico Aquaculture
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Pacifico Aquaculture is a leader in sustainable, ocean-raised aquaculture that produces premium ocean-raised striped bass.
4Pure
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Organic lemonades sweetened with maple syrup and containing only 4 ingredients.
Shipyard Brewing Company
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Shipyard Brewing Company is a food & beverages company specializing in brewed and hand-crafted ales.
Backyard Farms
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Backyard Farms is a food production company that offers tomatoes.
Maine Coast
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Maine Coast is a seafood supplier, specializing in Maine and Canadian lobster.
Pine State Trading Co.
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Pine State Trading Co. is a wholesale company specializing in beverage products.
Ingredients Solutions
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Ingredients Solutions focusses on hydrocolloid supply that includes carrageenan, pectin, alginate, gellan gum, agar-agar & tara gum.
JSI Store Fixtures
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JSI Store Fixtures manufactures and sells grocery store displays & store fixtures.
Bar Harbor
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Bar Harbor sits on a picturesque wharf on a beautiful sheltered cove in Downeast Maine.
Maine Course Hospitality Group
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Maine Course Hospitality Group is a hotel management firm that deals with establishing the main course culture.
Allagash Brewing
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Allagash is committed to promoting responsible drinking.
Sure Winner Foods
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Sure Winner Foods is a food & beverages company that offers ice cream, yogurt, and frozen foods
Atlas Distributing, Inc.
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Atlas Distributing is a wholesale company offering beer and beverage distribution services.
Ground Round IOC, LLC
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Ground Round IOC is a restaurant specializing in sports themed restaurant and dining services.
Dennis Paper & Food Service
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Dennis Paper & Food Service is a food & beverages company providing lunch and dining services.
Crate To Plate
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Crate To Plate is a food and beverage company located in Rockland.
Coffee Newså¨
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Coffee News is a publishing company providing restaurants, dishes, and specialty content.
Renys
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Renys is a seller of merchandise for all your household needs.
EMPACADORA DE AGUACATES SAN LORENZO S.A. DE C.V.
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ALEJANDRINA AVOCADOS SSThe main reason we have been producing the best avocado in the world for more than 60 years .
Nova Seafood
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Nova Seafood is an international wholesale seafood distributor company located in Portland.
Entosense, LLC
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Entosense carries a variety of edible insects for both retail &wholesale. Mini-Kickers Flavored Crickets, Gourmet Black Ants, Chapulines…
Caravan Beads
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Caravan Beads is a wholesale supplier and retail shop for Miyuki seed beads, delica beads, as well as C-Lon beading thread and cord.
Ready Seafood Co.
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Ready Seafood Co. is a processors, distributors and marketers of lobsters.
Tradewinds
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Tradewinds offers groceries, food & beverage along with offers fitness centers that are equipped with training equipment & aerobics studio.
Coffee By Design
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Provide you with superior quality coffee beans, beverages, and food products.
Black Dinah Chocolatiers
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Black Dinah Chocolatiers offers a full line of chocolate confections, ice cream, and signature cookies.
Phoodie
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Phoodie is an experiential marketing agency focused on helping food and beverage brands thrive.
Blue Hill Co-op
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Blue Hill Co-op is a cooperatively-owned grocery store that specializes in selling local & organic foods.
DQS CFS
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DQS CFS works to success of their clients on the consumer goods, including food and feed, consumer products, textiles and cosmetics.
D’Avocado
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D’Avocado creates packaged food products made with avocados.
The Wolak Group
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The Wolak Group owns & operates Dunkin’ restaurants and specializes in the acquisition and development of the commercial real estate.
Hancock Gourmet Lobster Co.
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Hancock Gourmet Lobster Co. is a delicious, pure Maine experience made from scratch delivered to their door.
Harmon Brook Farm
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Harmon Brook Farm is an online Bait shop in Canaan, Maine.
Belleco
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Belleco is a specialists in food equipment solutions offering commercial and industrial conveyor toasters and ovens.
Gold Star Honeybees
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Gold Star standard for natural beekeeping! Treatment-free bees, top bar hive kits.
Rising Tide Brewing Company
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Rising Tide Brewing Company is a family-owned craft brewery located in Portland, Maine.
Dirigo Food Safety
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Dirigo Food Safety works with small businesses across the country to create powerful food safety plans.
Gilded Nut Snack
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Gilded Nut Snack provides naturally delicious flavored pistachios.
The Velveteen Habit
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If you’re looking for an awesome traditional dining experience in New England, then The Velveteen Habit is a place you want to check out.
Baby Bleu
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Baby Bleu is a manufacturer and supplier of blueberry jams, preserves, and canned foods.
Stripers Forever
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Stripers Forever is a non-profit conservation organization that seeks game fish status for wild striped bass on the Atlantic Coast.
LaBree’s Bakery
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LaBree’s Bakery is a family-owned business that produces quality, home-style baked goods including donuts, mini muffins, cupcakes, etc.
