The Maine Wire
  • News
  • Commentary
  • The Blog
  • About
  • Investigations
  • Support the Maine Wire
  • Store
Facebook Twitter Instagram
Trending News
  • Bellows Demands DHS Secretary Nominee Confirm in Writing That ICE Won’t be Present at Polling Places
  • Northeast Terror Attack Converges With California Drone Warning After President Trump Assembles Counter Cartel Coalition
  • Bangor Concert Venue May Change Hands Under DOJ Settlement with Live Nation and Ticketmaster
  • MDEA Bust in Searsport Leads to Five Arrests Including Two Suspects from Massachusetts
  • Target Bows To Political Pressure, Agrees Amid DEI Protest To Invest In Minority Businesses
  • Socialist Shortfalls: FBI Steps In To Conduct Controlled Detonation At Pennsylvania Storage Facility Tied To Mamdani Mansion Terror Attack
  • Maine Fishermen’s Forum All Tied Up Over Bill Beli-chick’s Sexy Girlfriend In A Skimpy Rope “Dress”
  • Maine Supreme Court May Soon Advise Lawmakers on Constitutionality of Controversial Ranked-Choice Voting Expansion
Facebook Twitter Instagram
The Maine Wire
Thursday, March 12
  • News
  • Commentary
  • The Blog
  • About
  • Investigations
  • Support the Maine Wire
  • Store
The Maine Wire
Home » News » News » Maine Company Loses Contract Making Wooden Cigar Tips, Forced To Shut Its Doors
News

Maine Company Loses Contract Making Wooden Cigar Tips, Forced To Shut Its Doors

Ted CohenBy Ted CohenJanuary 23, 2026Updated:January 23, 2026No Comments2 Mins Read2K Views
Facebook Twitter Email LinkedIn Reddit
Share
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email

For decades a Burnham company that made golf tees and wooden toys has kept hundreds of people employed.

But it’s now lost its biggest contract – making wooden cigar tips, that is marking the death knell for Pride Manufacturing.

The company has announced it is going out of business in April, putting 115 people out of work.

“After our largest customer made the decision to relocate their sourcing for cigar tips, our highest volume product, the facility became financially unviable,” the firm said in a statement.

The company has been a world leader in cigar tips for more than 60 years, and also cranks out millions of golf tees from white and yellow birch.

But Pride’s most-well-known product internationally has actually been a popular children’s toy called Lincoln Logs.

Toymaker Basic Fun says it’s now scrambling to find a new factory to manufacture the logs.

“We are desperately looking for a vendor here that manufactures custom wood parts,” Jay Foreman, Basic Fun’s chief executive, told The New York Post. “We are hoping that someone will purchase the factory or buy the equipment, but we are not counting on it for this year.”

Lincoln Logs were first created 110 years ago by a son of architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

Pride was founded in Florida in 1930 before moving to Maine in 1956 to be closer to the wood it used to produce the cigar tips, and it started making golf tees soon after and then, more recently, the toy logs.

Art
Previous ArticleDemocrats Reject Proposal To Require Issuance of Undercover License Plates After Bellows Refused Them to ICE
Next Article Famous Maine YouTuber, Ally Of Bowdoin College Grad’s Racially-Challenged Socialist NYC Mayor, ‘Playing Victim’
Ted Cohen

[email protected]

Related Posts

Bellows Demands DHS Secretary Nominee Confirm in Writing That ICE Won’t be Present at Polling Places

March 11, 2026

Northeast Terror Attack Converges With California Drone Warning After President Trump Assembles Counter Cartel Coalition

March 11, 2026

Bangor Concert Venue May Change Hands Under DOJ Settlement with Live Nation and Ticketmaster

March 11, 2026

Comments are closed.

Recent News

Bellows Demands DHS Secretary Nominee Confirm in Writing That ICE Won’t be Present at Polling Places

March 11, 2026

Northeast Terror Attack Converges With California Drone Warning After President Trump Assembles Counter Cartel Coalition

March 11, 2026

Bangor Concert Venue May Change Hands Under DOJ Settlement with Live Nation and Ticketmaster

March 11, 2026

MDEA Bust in Searsport Leads to Five Arrests Including Two Suspects from Massachusetts

March 11, 2026

Socialist Shortfalls: FBI Steps In To Conduct Controlled Detonation At Pennsylvania Storage Facility Tied To Mamdani Mansion Terror Attack

March 11, 2026
Newsletter

News

  • News
  • Campaigns & Elections
  • Opinion & Commentary
  • Media Watch
  • Education
  • Media

Maine Wire

  • About the Maine Wire
  • Advertising
  • Contact Us
  • Submit Commentary
  • Complaints
  • Maine Policy Institute

Resources

  • Maine Legislature
  • Legislation Finder
  • Get the Newsletter
  • Maine Wire TV

Facebook Twitter Instagram Steam RSS
  • Post Office Box 7829, Portland, Maine 04112

Type above and press Enter to search. Press Esc to cancel.