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    WCSH-TV, ME
    Nov 22 2008



    Barber Foods Founder Dies
    Posted By: Ken Christian



    PORTLAND (NEWS CENTER) -- The man behind one of Maine's great business
    success stories, has died. Gus Barber, the founder of Barber Foods in
    Portland, passed away Friday.

    In 1955, Barber started his business with one worker.

    The company now employs more than 700 people, many of them immigrants,
    and is one of the country's largest makers of frozen foods such as
    stuffed chicken breasts.

    Barber was the son of an immigrant from Armenia, and developed
    programs to help his immigrant employees learn everything from English
    to computers to citizenship.

    Gus Barber was 87 years old.


    http://www.wcsh6.com/news/local/story.aspx? storyid=96343&catid=2
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