HATS OFF TO TARDY AND CONNORS FOR NOT GIVING IN AND TRYING TO SAVE THIS MAINE INDUSTRY, IF OUR PEOPLE IN WASHINGTON WERE WORTH THEIR SALT THIS WOULD NEVER HAVE GONE THIS FAR, WE HAD TO GIVE BILLIONS TO BAIL OUT THE BANKS BUT LOOK AT HOW THE BANKS BAIL US OUT. PUT US UP FOR AUCTION AND GIVE US TO THE SCAVANGERS.

I had some of their furniture from the 70's and nobody could touch the quality. Hope they revive it and get more jobs for the area.

Gotta wonder how much FAME money found its way into the pockets of the politically connected before the doors closed.

theres is no better product then moosehead, I am glad they did this but wish they had done it sooner.I can understand why people that spent alot to go to this are upset. I hope they can get there s-it together and get up and running agian,you get what you pay for and moosehead is the best

Hate to break this to you Bud, but Machias Savings Bank did not receive bailout money. It's safe to say most local banks did not receive a penny of the bailout money. Even more reason to bank locally!

More Maine jobs bye bye. Besides how many times can a company go bankrupt? Just can't compete against Chinese slave, prison and child labor.

We need import duties. We had them in the days we were producers and not just consumers. Ah well, this is what happens when international companies own every politician in the country. The companies set up shop in China and close up shop in America; democracy is a pathetic system that has eaten the souls of its people to pour profit into its corporations. Long live the corporations!

SammieJ, just what do you think FAME guarantees are?

How sad. seems to be the case all over New England. In New Hampshire and Vermont it's Ethan Allen funiture. I guess we are all stuck buying "quality" funiture from such great places like Wal Mart and Target. the good stuff that lasts all of a year or two. when was the last time anybody bought funiture that wasn't made out of press board? Sad Sad Sad.

I would very much like to have Tardy or Connors contact me because there is a way to bring Moosehead back. What Moosehead management like the rest of the US furniture industry management simply did not understand is that their product line and business model were both way outdated. Regardless of what the quality was, the design of the product was good 40 years ago. It was irrelevant to today's buying public. The management consistently chose to compete directly with imports because of the product they were making. If you are going to be production driven like Moosehead was, then you will be price driven. And when you are price driven in a global market, there is no bottom to price. They could have chosen to create new markets with new product approaches in order to be product driven. Competing with unique product rather than generic old fashioned design would have given them staying power. When a product is new and unique, then people are willing to spend more for it. Remember the long lines to buy IPhones when they first came out? One cannot blame cheap Asian labor alone for the loss of jobs. Labor is only a part of the cost of building a product. If the product had been more uniquely relevant and the factory consistently innovative, then Moosehead would still be operating today. But there is something about the manufacturing mentality that believes production pre-empts design over and over again.

In addition their method of selling does not work anymore. This company could be re-invented to start producing new product by the end of this year at the latest. It could bring back all the jobs that were lost. But it would have to be done with new product directions and a new selling business model. Both of these are very doable. If anyone is interested in learning how, I would love to speak with them to help rebirth a Maine heritage business.

Andy Grove, co-founder of Intel, liked to say that companies come to “strategic inflection points,” where the fundamentals of a business change and they either make the hard decision to invest in a down cycle and take a more promising trajectory or do nothing and wither.

Please email me if you want to bring Moosehead back: robtwmark@verizon.net

Well there Mr Innovation - you clearly have not looked at the design since Tardy and Connors took the company over a few years ago. They were making some beautiful cherry pieces that were priced so that everyman could certainly afford to buy them. They did continue the styles that made the company kfamous, but had added many nice contemporary pieces. But getting people to even look at furniture or local art is darn near impossible. For some odd reason buyers have made up their collective minds that if it doesn't come from a big box store it can't be any good. This despite the intrinsic knowledge that what comes from a big box store is almost univerally crap and will break in a year of less. The american buying mind is a mystery to me.

If only people would go back to doing business with their neighbors perhaps that trend would die off.

Problem:Free Trade =Poverty For Majority Of Americans [][][][][][][] Solution: Abolish Free Trade=America Goes Back To Work=Prospering Americans