LL Bean News

L.L. Bean's grandson Leon Gorman is retiring as chairman of the outdoors retailer after more than a half-century as the company's chairman or CEO, but the privately held firm is keeping the position in the family.

For years, restaurants throughout the Kennebunks have attracted national attention for their fine cuisine, and now clothing catalogues are taking notice of the seaside towns.

A tornado watch has been issued for several counties in central and western Indiana.

The U.S. Department of Labor is notifying a new class of employees of the former Joslyn Manufacturing and Supply Co.

L.L. Bean's grandson Leon Gorman is retiring as company chairman after more than 50 years as chairman or CEO, but the privately held company is keeping the position in the family.

L.L. Bean will not join the growing list of retailers that have signed a contract to make factory conditions safer in Bangladesh, a company representative said Wednesday.

The Haywood Habitat ReStore is now presenting a collection of extra special items in an on-going Silent Auction.

It's good that retailers like L.L. Bean are pledging to do more to ensure that working conditions at their overseas contractors' plants are better than those at the factory in Bangladesh that collapsed last week, killing more than 600 workers.

FREEPORT Nationally known singer-songwriters Matt Nathanson, Tristan Prettyman and Joshua Radin, along with folk-pop band The Head and The Heart are among the announced headliners at this year's L.L. Bean Summer Concert Series.

Maine retail giant L.L. Bean owns the most-followed board on the social media website Pinterest, according to a recent study, highlighted by Mashable , another online social media site, that surveyed Pinterest users.

You might think of Freeport as a day trip: Roll into town, hit the L.L. Bean flagship store and a few outlet stores, grab a lobster roll at Linda Bean's , and be on your way.

In the wake of a factory collapse in Bangladesh last week that killed more than 500 people, Maine retailer L.L. Bean, which sells clothes made by contractors around the world, said it is stepping up monitoring efforts and factory visits of overseas production sites.

LL Bean in Fayetteville will soon become a full retail location, according to the company.

That meant we were going on a family adventure, with no set itinerary. We would get in the car and see where the road brought us.

Bean is making the switch because of the large number of catalog and Web customers in the area and the good response the outlet has had over the years.

A bill to allow states to collect taxes from online retailers inched forward Thursday in the Senate but not before a small, bipartisan group of opponents from states without sales taxes managed to delay work on the legislation for several days.