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small7 FRIENDSHIP, ME – Though he’s been running the show at Friendship Trap Co. for a good five years, Mike Wadsworth now has a title that reflects his crucial role within the company – chief executive officer.

Company founder Pike Bartlett, who made the announcement in early April, added that Wadsworth also is taking on partial ownership of the company.

“This is more of a title than a responsibility or functional change,” Bartlett said. “But we want people to know that Mike’s now part owner of the company. It makes people look at him in a different light.”

Friendship Trap Co. was founded in 1977, making 2007 the company’s 30th anniversary year. Wadsworth has been with the company for about half that time. He started with Friendship in the early 1980s and then set out on his own to form Mike’s Wire Traps in his hometown of Union.

We are very thankful to have such a wonderful team here at Friendship Trap. Our employees are not new to the production of custom lobster traps; they have seen it all, their veterans. a lot of our production workers have been with us between 10 and 20 years. Our key management people have 20-30 years experience each. we probably are approaching a total of 150 years experience here. I don't take this kind of experience for granted. I can remember the old days, training people on the production line. The majority of my responsibility was training with close follow-up in order to get the order correct. There's not a college course to teach what we do here at Friendship Trap, like there is in other professional fields. When we hire someone new, we have to be prepared to fully train these people, once their trained they may like it or may decide to move on as it's not for them; we then start all over again. So, i appreciate the FTC Team!

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