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DelGreco succeeds Jacobson at Maine & Company

Economic development group Maine & Company has named Peter DelGreco president and CEO, effective September 15. DelGreco, the group’s vice president of operations and a staffer since 2004, succeeds Matt Jacobson, who is leaving to be executive vice president of corporate development at technology firm Resilient Tier-V in Brunswick. “Peter has been instrumental in attracting […]

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Maine high-tech firm’s ‘grow plugs’help garden industry thrive

SOUTH PORTLAND — In a production warehouse in South Portland, Edwin Dijkshoorn holds a brown blob that looks in every respect like a double-layer chocolate cake.

But Dijkshoorn’s employer, Grow-Tech Inc., isn’t in the baking business.

Instead, the company makes artificial soil products that plant growers and home gardeners use to germinate and cultivate young plants and flowers.