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Just how high can prices go? Is another record-breaking price threshold in the offing?
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Londonderry-based Wallboard Supply Co., a subsidiary of the nation’s third largest building products distributor, has acquired Vermont-based Poulin Lumber.
Poulin, based in Derby, Vt., has supplied building products and hardware to homeowners and contractors since 1936. It has four locations in northern and central Vermont, and sells engineered wood and wall panels, drywall, insulation, roofing, moulding, windows, doors, fasteners, tools, kitchen and bath cabinetry and fixtures, as well as numerous lines of hardwood and laminate floors.
Wallboard is a third-generation, family-run business that operates out of five locations and is headquartered in Londonderry. Its other locations are in Braintree, Mass., Portland and Hermon, Maine, and Williston, Vt.
Wallboard’s parent company, US LBM, is a Green Bay, Wis.-based collection of building material distributors across North America operating 193 locations in 24 states.
Just how high can prices go? Is another record-breaking price threshold in the offing?
NH Business Review interviewed Choate at the International Marketplace, located at the Pease International Tradeport, where Choate helped negotiate many deals over the years.
The collaborative has some 475 members spread across communities in the region and representing a broad range of business, health care and education interests.
Fidelity Investments announced Wednesday that New Hampshire is one of four Fidelity sites that will transition to a full-time, on-site schedule beginning in September
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North Country Healthcare on Monday, April 13, released a report summarizing feedback from a series of community listening sessions held earlier this year across the region, highlighting widespread concern about access to care, staffing and communication, along with strong support for keeping local hospitals open.
Morrison Hospital Association, a nonprofit senior care provider in northern New Hampshire, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection April 10, citing mounting debt — including a nearly $23 million federal loan — and lingering financial effects from the COVID-19 pandemic.
After two choppy years for dealmakers, 2026 is starting with a very different tone, one that many business owners have been waiting for. While the past few years brought tariff swings, interest rate volatility and a cautious lending environment, the fundamentals are shifting in a way that increasingly favors sellers, especially those in the lower-middle-market (LMM).