People & Business: April 20
3 min readThos. Moser celebrates 50th anniversary
On Feb. 2, 1972, Tom and Mary Moser determined to stroll into an unsure foreseeable future by commencing Thos. Moser home furniture corporation, with no strategy their purchasers would a person working day incorporate presidents and popes.
Thos. Moser founders Tom and Mary Moser are celebrating the company’s golden anniversary this yr. Alongside with a few presidents and two popes, Thos. Moser has designed home furnishings for non-public residences and universities. Contributed
“We experienced no certain motive to imagine we could succeed, but I had to make things out of wood. It was as easy as that,” explained Tom Moser, who remaining a position as a Bates College or university professor to commence Thos. Moser.
About the several years, it has made and constructed furniture for the George W. Bush Presidential Center and the Ronald Reagan Library, along with a lectern desk for Invoice Clinton. Thos. Moser also built ceremonial seating for Pope Benedict XVI‘s take a look at to the White Home in 2008 and Pope Francis‘ pay a visit to to Philadelphia in 2015. The corporation also developed a chair for the New York General public Library and home furnishings for Harvard, Yale and Duke universities.
“In the 50 years considering the fact that our start out, much has improved in the earth,” reported Aaron Moser, chairman of Thos. Moser, but timeless styles are even now crafted with pleasure from the greatest high-quality products applying common woodworking tactics.
Considering that 1987, Thos. Moser has operated out of a 90,000-square-foot workshop in Auburn, with nearly 70 craftsmen and craftswomen and showrooms in Freeport, Boston, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco.
Thos. Moser likens its potent root process of family, companions, colleagues and clients to that of the American black cherry tree, which they harvest in the Allegany Plateau to make much of their sustainable home furnishings, together with walnut from the Missouri riverbanks.
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Recognition
Evergreen Credit score Union obtained the Modest Enterprise Administration District Director Award in recognition of the credit history union’s endeavours to increase the use of SBA systems and obtain to applications like the Paycheck Safety System. In the course of fiscal year 2021, Evergreen CU presented around $2.3 million in 504 financial loans and around $9 million in PPP loans, and as a end result, was ranked to start with among the all Maine credit score unions.
Granted
Acquiring Our Voices, the grassroots nonprofit group marshaling survivor voices to break the silence of domestic abuse, has been awarded $10,000 by the Elmina B. Sewall Basis. The grant is earmarked for the Get Out Stay Out Fund that empowers women to get out and continue to be out of perilous intimate companion scenarios, and get and preserve their kids risk-free as effectively.
Help save the date
Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce will host PROPEL, the “young professionals” board, at its to start with in-human being networking event for 2022 at Growing Tide Brewing Enterprise at 103 Fox St. in Portland.
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