Many favored lovers dream about one day starting their own favorite business , and most of them have thrown the estimate out in effortless conversation at least once or double . Little did Heidi Vanrose Neal know , but a random conversation at a Christmas party really started her journeying to becoming a successful pet supply fund owner .
Five years later , Neal ’s pet store , The Loyal Biscuit Company , has grown into a small chain of stores that stretches across central and coastal Maine .
Neal worked for Midcoast Federal Credit Union for 15 class , but was becoming burnt out and hackneyed of the work . She was considering lead back to school day until she had a conversation with her now husband , Joel Neal , at a Christmas company . She tell that she would love to ownThe Loyal Biscuit Company , which was for sales event at the time .
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Neal talked about how she would love the job and would get to bring her wienerwurst , Fenway , to work with her every day . Joel encouraged her to get in touch with the owner , and she agreed . At the time Lauren Hinsmann owned the ecesis but was disposed to close her business enterprise shortly if she had not received an offer on the prop .
A petty over a month later Heidi and Joel Neal became owner of the business , which had been establish by Hinsmann in 2006 . Neal ’s only other retail experience was forge as a cashier at aHannaford ’s Supermarketwhile she was in college . She pronounce execute the store was unlike from anything else she had ever done .
Located on Maine Street in the beautiful coastal townsfolk of Rockland , the storehouse began to do very well and in June of 2011 Neal open another store in Belfast . She said that was the next logical location because Belfast has agreat dog communityand a thriving dog car park .
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Less than a yr afterwards another entrepot was give in Camden . The original owner of The Loyal Biscuit Company had prompt to Camden after selling the shop and adjudicate to open a pet store there called Destination Dog . When Hinsmann determine to fill up the storehouse and move away , Neal sawan opportunity to expand her business .
Last August Neal opened her 4th store in Waterville , Maine . The manager of her store in Belfast was getting espouse and moving to Waterville , and Neal was very intimate with the area . She thought it would be a with child location for another Loyal Biscuit store and she would n’t have to care about finding someone to run it .
Neal is also part owner of two other frump concern companies;Fidelis Biscuit Companywhich makes organic and Maine made dog treats , andLoyal Biscuit Tug Me Toywhich produces hand-crafted dog toy dog with the help of laboring inpatient at the Maine State Prison .
Neal says her winner is due to the fact that her depot are involved in the local community and with give back topet interrelate organizationsin the area like rescues and shelters . She says she certainly be after on thrive her business in the future , but no other fund locations are plan yet .
