GT Advanced Technologies has ended four years of litigation against an Italian citizen and a California rival company with a confidential settlement approved Tuesday by a U.S. District Court judge in Concord. The Nashua-based firm had charged that Poly Plant…
Portsmouth-based Bottomline Technologies reported that it didn't earn much money for its shareholders when it released its quarterly earnings last week, but it did beat expectations in its "core" income, getting a boost in share price that has lasted for…
The NH Jump$tart Coalition -- a nonprofit organization that works to improve the financial literacy of New Hampshire young people -- is putting together a statewide meeting of business leaders to address the financial education needs of Granite State children…
Housing activists are worried that differences between the Attorney General's Office and the lame-duck Republican-dominated Legislative Fiscal Committee -- which meets Thursday morning -- could delay spending New Hampshire's share of $10 million of mortgage fraud settlement money on programs…
The latest bankruptcy statistics show a general, but troublingly erratic, improvement in the New Hampshire economy. A surge of 50 bankruptcy filings on Halloween brought the number of October filings up to 314, continuing a year-over-year decline, but it was…
The promised $16 million in savings that New Hampshire was supposed to see though a new Medicaid managed care program is quickly evaporating, because three vendors have not been able to set up networks with providers – especially hospitals –…
The private equity firm American Industrial Partners on Wednesday completed its $26 million acquisition of the Presstek Inc., the printing equipment firm based in Connecticut with a major production facility in Hudson. The sale price amounted to 50 cents a…
White Mountains Insurance has been making money this year, so far, partly because the reinsurer did not have to pay the kind of catastrophic losses it paid last year. But Tuesday's earnings report -- the day after superstorm Sandy smacked…
Nashua-based GT Advanced Technologies is laying off about 40 employees in New Hampshire as part of a 25 percent reduction in its worldwide workforce. The move was made, the company said Wednesday, in order to better face a "challenging 2013."…
Despite some opposition, Woodlands Credit Union members voted by a 3-2 margin on Saturday to merge the Berlin-based credit union with Northeast Credit Union of Portsmouth, the company announced Wednesday. The merged Northeast Credit Union will have assets of $800…
If you are a Unitil customer reading this on a computer this morning despite Hurricane Sandy, you might have benefited from the $2.5 million that the Hampton-based utility spent on vegetation clearing during the last nine months. And if you…
The last pre-election report on home sales from the New Hampshire Association of Realtors is a good one for those arguing that the housing market is on the rebound. For the first time since the recession hit, the median price…
Eric Jaeger, Cabletron Systems' former top lawyer, has tentatively settled charges of securities fraud with staff from the Securities and Exchange Commission, postponing a trial that was scheduled for next month in Concord. U.S. District Court Judge Steven J. McAuliffe…
Energy efficiency is "one of the things we all agree on," said Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, to a filled-to-capacity banquet room at the 2012 New Hampshire Energy Summit Monday morning at the Holiday Inn in Concord. But how much agreement is…
In Berlin, the former Fraser Papers mill is being replaced by a biomass plant that will not only result in hundreds of construction and permanent jobs, but will also buy $27 million worth of wood every year from local timber…
The plan to privatize New Hampshire's prison probably won't be approved by the Executive Council this year -- and will have a foe in the corner office next year, no matter who wins the gubernatorial race - putting the privatization…
Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner Nicholas Toumpas wants to give Xerox Corp. more time to implement the state's new Medicaid Management Information System, that was originally supposed to be running at the end of 2007.But, Toumpas, promised, this…
Eric Jaeger, the former top lawyer and vice president at Cabletron Systems, may call on former Cabletron CEO Piyush Patel, former Cabletron chief financial officer David Kirkpatrick and Michael A. Skubisz, former CEO of a Cabletron spinoff company, to testify…
The top three executives of Portsmouth-based Bottomline Technologies earned $5.2 million in compensation in fiscal year 2012 -- more than a 50 percent increase over 2011, the company disclosed in its proxy. The nine members of the board of the…
AeroSat Corp., an Amherst-based company that makes antennas used in commercial aircraft to allow passengers to connect to the Internet and watch TV, fired its founder Michael Barrett last year and owes him at least $660,000, Barrett claims in a…
Jeff Bartlett, president and general manager of WMUR-TV since February 2001, has had a career that has taken him around the country, from Fayetteville, Ark., where he was president and general manger of KHBS/KHOG-TV before joining WMUR, to such landmark…
September bankruptcy filings dropped nearly 20 percent in New Hampshire from a year ago, continuing the 2012 downward trend. All told, there were 302 filings in September, six more than in August, when the number of filings dipped below 300…
Dr. Aaron Carroll didn't exactly provide the most reassuring words to the hundreds of people attending the fourth annual NHBR Health Care Forum, who were there to learn more about how the Affordable Care Act will affect their business. Instead,…
If you want to lend some money to a multimillion-dollar high-tech equipment company headquartered in New Hampshire, here's your chance. GT Advanced Technologies wants to borrow about $220 million at 3 percent interest. Investors would be able call in the…
It has been a good year for Standex International Corp., and therefore a good year for its executives, who earned a total of about $7 million in compensation in the last fiscal year, according to various filings with the Securities…
GT Advanced Technologies plans to raise $175 million to $200 million in a rather complicated bond issue, the Nashua-based company announced Monday. GTAT will be using the proceeds to build its "war chest" - in the words of spokesperson Ryan…
Jennylsa Wilson was a month away from her due date when Flo-Pro Inc. told her she had been let go, because -- she later learned -- the company shifted its manufacturing of car axles from its plant in Bedford to…
The bankruptcy trustee for USA Springs received a "very good" bid that's "in the neighborhood" of $7.5 million for the would-be water bottling company's assets -- a bid good enough to skip a planned auction and negotiate a deal by…
Presstek Inc.'s top three executives could be paid a total of $3.2 million in severance if the proposed sale of the printing equipment manufacturer to the American Industrial Partners (AIP) private equity firm is completed, according to the preliminary version…
Offshore wind turbines could one day supply four-fifths of New Hampshire's energy supply, according to a report released by the National Wildlife Federation. But Public Service of New Hampshire spokesperson Martin Murray thinks it's "highly unlikely" that such a scenario…
Five of the six New Hampshire banks "bailed out" through the federal government's Troubled Asset Relief Program have paid back the government in full -- and then some, according to "Eye on the Bailout," a report by ProPublica, an investigative…
When it comes to the state's primarily independent trade schools, for-profits generally cost less, though graduates still have a tougher time paying back their loans
With USA Springs going up on the auction block at the end of the month, the federally appointed bankruptcy trustee and the company's largest secured creditor have cut a deal over how to split up the proceeds. But the deal…
After a brief plateau in July, New Hampshire bankruptcy filings fell in August to below 300 -- a level not seen since 1998.In August, some 296 households and businesses filed for bankruptcy protection. That's 12 percent lower than July and…
Pathfinders Academy, a private Montessori school in Epsom owned by a Free State Project sympathizer, filed for bankruptcy protection Aug. 27 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manchester. The academy's owner, Wayne Anderson of Manchester, also filed on behalf of Pathfinder…
Bottomline Technologies has won regulatory approval to acquire Albany Software Ltd. for about $32 million, the latest in a series of acquisitions by the Portsmouth company as it expands its financial services business. The company said the deal - first…
GT Advanced Technologies' shareholders approved the executive pay of its top officers.
FairPoint Communications says that New Hampshire municipalities are not assessing its telephone poles fairly - assessments can range from as low as $277 to as high as $587 a pole -- but one assessor points out that it's the utility's…
USA Springs assets are up for auction again, with the same Sept. 14 bid deadline and the same scheduled Sept. 28 auction date. On Aug. 16, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court said the would continue on the same schedule that was…
Presstek Inc. is being acquired by an affiliate of private equity firm American Industrial Partners for 50 cents a share, the two companies announced Thursday. What AIP will do with the struggling Connecticut-based printing equipment manufacturer -- whose major production…
The budding movement by shareholders to question the pay of executives at publicly held companies has reached New Hampshire
At issue is the scope of wind power development off the coast of Maine over the next 40 years
In the wake of a disappointing earnings release, iCAD issued a one-to-five reverse split Wednesday after trading hours to avoid being delisted from the NASDAQ exchange. The Nashua-based medical imaging company made the expected announcement 10 days before NASDAQ would…
The slowdown in the solar industry -- particularly in China -- has finally caught up to GT Advanced Technologies, according to the company's last quarterly filing, which explained in detail why sales plummeted and profit margins shrank. The company --…
Sturm Ruger & Co. was getting so many gun orders that it couldn't build them fast enough last quarter, and its quarterly numbers reflect that. Even after suspending orders for the first two-thirds of the quarter the gun manufacturer sold nearly $120 million of firearms, up by half compared to the second quarter of 2011.
Bottomline Technologies posted a net of loss of $1.2 million in its last quarter of the fiscal year. The company would have had the potential for a higher "core net income" if they ignored GAAP factors.
Michael Burr didn't remember much from the math he learned in high school. After all, that was nearly 30 years ago, and, besides, "I liked sports better." But after working his way up to be a lead person on the…
Presstek Inc. cut its losses by more than half last quarter despite the continual decline in revenue due to both a shrunken economy and a shrinking market for print media.
The closing came a week after Micronetics settled several class-action suits
The company was scheduled to be auctioned off in September
The nonprofit and ReVision Energy expand renewable energy portfolio with new solar panels across five properties in the Monadnock Region
New Hampshire’s $4B outdoor economy supports 32,000 jobs and ranks 8th in the nation.
A nearly $4.6 million contract has been awarded for the construction of a five-mile median barrier on Interstate 95 in New Hampshire with the goal to prevent highway deaths.
While home prices might be moderating in other parts of the country, the median price of a single-family house in New Hampshire rose to $550,000 in August, the second highest price point this current year. That price is just $3,000 more than the $547,000 recorded in July, but it is $47,500 more than January’s $502,500. The highest median price in 2025 was $569,450, recorded in June and the most ever recorded in the state.
ApprenticeshipNH has partnered with Associated Builders and Contractors of New Hampshire/Vermont and Elm Grove Companies to launch New Hampshire’s first registered apprenticeship program (RAP) for maintenance technicians
Meet Samii, the mannequin who is bedridden in the AI Simulation Lab, one of the drawing cards to the new $32 million home of the Jean School of Nursing and Health Sciences at Saint Anselm College.
The unstoppable New Hampshire economy of the post-COVID years is running into economic headwinds of higher unemployment and inflation, a nonpartisan economic research firm said in late August. No definitive evidence points to a recession, the New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute said in an economic issues brief.
Free credentialing program is designed to boost timber industry workforce
In the last budget cycle, lawmakers had expanded eligibility for the scholarship to families making up to 85% of the state median income.
