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Expenet Technologies new second location celebrated

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Welcoming Expenet Technologies to downtown Farmington are, from left to right:
Welcoming Expenet Technologies to downtown Farmington are, from left to right:Penny Meservier, Franklin County Chamber of Commerce executive director; Sue Jones, Farmington Downtown Association president; Selectman Chair Joshua Bell; Josh Michaud, co-owner of Expenet Technologies; Farmington Town Manager Richard Davis; Diane Jackson of the state’s Department of Economic and Community Development and Glenn Kapiloff, Franklin County Chamber of Commerce president and director of the Foster Career and Technical Education Center.
Store hours will be 9 a.m. until 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, and 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. on Saturday.
Store hours will be 9 a.m. until 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, and 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. on Saturday.

FARMINGTON – Town and state officials, business owners and residents turned out to celebrate the grand opening of a second Expenet Technologies location at 145 Main Street on Friday.

Co-owners Josh Michaud and Jeff Chaisson opened their first shop in downtown Wilton at 295 Main Street after operating out of Chaisson’s home basement for the first 6 months of establishing the business, beginning in November 2011.

What started as a computer repair and IT management company has since expanded its services to include a wide range of technology services to both residents and businesses. Expenet now offers repairs for phones and tablets, website creation and management services and specializes in managing commercial computer systems.

In less than 4 years, Michaud said, Expenet went from having two or three commercial customers to now more than 50, along with countless residential customers. Along with requiring more space to meet the growing needs of the business, six people work at Expenet with another employee recently added.

Diane Jackson, of the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development, congratulated the expanding business at the ribbon cutting ceremony and said that “this is a home-grown business and this is exactly what we need to keep people employed  in their communities.”

Franklin County Chamber of Commerce members welcomed the business to Farmington. Glenn Kapiloff, the Chamber’s president and director of the Foster Career and Technical Education Center, noted Michaud is a former tech center student who has since gone on to mentor the current students in the computer tech center program.

Michaud said it was a big leap of faith to “graduate from college, be $90,000 in debt, never having held a steady job before and then to decide to start up a business,” he said. Today, though, “I couldn’t be more excited,” he added.

A ribbon was cut at the entrance to the shop and the crew went right to work.

The Farmington shop hours will be 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday. For more information about about Expenet, please visit: <a href=”http://www.expenet.com”>http://www.expenet.com</a> – <a href=”http://www.facebook.com/expenet”>http://www.facebook.com/expenet</a>

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4 Comments

  1. Advertising? or news article? How many times are they going to open in Farmington? Meanwhile, I saw a flier for Reboots reopening for today. Hope the bulldog covers that shop that has been a part of downtown Farmingtons store fronts for 10 years.

  2. I would just like to welcome Expenet to the downtown Farmington area, and yes we are now open in our new location at 187 Main Street Suite 2 right next to The Roost. It’s always good to have some friendly competition and we’re looking forward to another 8 years in the downtown area.

  3. Thanks to everyone who made it out to the ribbon cutting, we appreciate the support!

    Congrats to you Caleb as well on your reopening, pencil us in for a lunch meeting sometime at the Roost.

  4. Congrats to you both,Josh and Jeff! However, one thing that makes me bristle is the fact that our town promotes only serviceable goods industry and what we need more of,is manufacturing! skilled labor is out there,but without our towns and State advocating for it,we are doomed to being on a list of states that have nothing more than just services rendered!

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