My first job was my own paper route when I was a young boy. Decades later, when I founded Tom’s of Maine in the 1970s, I came to see my business as my second paper route. The basics remained the same. In building one of the world’s first and largest natural personal care products company, my wife Kate and I recognized the need to operate as part of something so much larger than ourselves—responsible to our customers, or community, and our environment.
