Vermont Soap founder retires

MIDDLEBURY — Vermont Soap Company founder and long-time CEO Larry Plesent, 61, is retiring from the Middlebury company. Plesent, who took Vermont Soap from “a twinkle in daddy’s eye” to its status today as one of Vermont’s iconic manufacturers of healthy, earth-friendly products, said in a statement that “the time to retire is when you are healthy enough to enjoy it.”Known for his hands-on management style and a “there are no unimportant parts” holistic approach to life and work, Plesent was equally comfort … (read more)

MIDDLEBURY — What do you do when a global pandemic tightens the market for your product so much that it forces you to pare back on manufacturing? If you’re the leaders of three Middlebury businesses, you plow your resources into making a hand sanitizer, a … (read more)