Waiting on a snowy day
Representatives from 20 ski resorts — about two-thirds of NH's ski areas — gathered with industry and media folks and elected leaders on Monday at McIntyre Ski Resort in Manchester to kick off the new season.
Author: Mike Cote
Q&A: Chief investment officer and chief economist for NBT Bank Ken Entenmann
As senior vice president, chief investment officer and chief economist for NBT Bank, Ken Entenmann oversees more than $11 billion in assets under management and administration, including 401(k) plans, retirement plans, endowments, foundations, personal trusts and corporate assets.
NH Business Notebook: In praise of powerful women
NH Business Review forum Nov. 7 will feature five accomplished leaders
What are you hungry for?
Dinemait app uses artificial intelligence to help you find your next great meal
Q&A: Editors of The Old Farmer’s Almanac, Carol Connare & Sarah Perreault
How do you keep a vintage brand fresh? The editors of the “The Old Farmer’s Almanac” face that challenge every year as they gather material for an annual publication that is nearly as old as our nation.
NH Business Notebook: ‘Anything but run of the mill,’ but a mill runs through it
The 7,000 Manchester-area jobs expected to be created over the next several years associated with the nonprofit Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute is driving downtown development.
NH Business Notebook: ARMI’s big rollout
Business leader’s talk at manufacturing summit underscores biofab project’s regional outreach beyond the Manchester Millyard
Match your events with the right venues for maximum impact
Whether it’s a corporate gathering, charity fundraiser or awards gala, a successful event begins with choosing the venue that offers the best fit for the occasion.
Q&A: NH Department of Business and Economic Affairs Commissioner Taylor Caswell
As commissioner of the New Hampshire Department of Business and Economic Affairs, Taylor Caswell is charged with attracting new businesses to the Granite State and helping them navigate roadblocks.
Northeast Delta Dental scores double play with naming rights to ballparks in Maine and Vermont
The New Hampshire Fisher Cats will find a familiar name on the field the next time they head to Maine to play the Portland Sea Dogs.
U.S. Chamber of Commerce endorses Rep. Chris Pappas
Rep. Chris Pappas has received the endorsement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the District 1 congressman announced Monday. Pappas’ Republican challenger, Russell Prescott of Kingston, recently received the endorsement of the National Federation of Independent Businesses Fed PAC.
NH Business Notebook: Manchester advertising agency circles back to its roots
EVR’s next leader is a young woman who is also a proud mom
Looking for top tech
Product of the Year nominations extended until Oct. 7
Personal stories and global ideas take center stage at TEDxAmoskeagMillyard
TEDXAmoskeagMillyard, which debuted in 2011, returns Oct. 10 from 1 to 5 p.m., at the Palace Theatre in Manchester.
NH Business Notebook: When cheap seats are the best seats
$25 prime tix at BankNH Pavilion for The National
Q&A: RiverWoods CEO Justine Vogel
Justine Vogel worked for RiverWoods Group before the continuing care retirement community even had residents, joining as director of accounting. Back then, co-founders Rosemary Coffin and Maryanna Hatch operated their fledgling nonprofit out of a local bar.
St. Joseph Jr. High School opens at Trinity High campus
About 350 students at Trinity High School returned to their Manchester campus this week to some upgrades at their school and a brand-new building that is now the home of St. Joseph Jr. High School.
Q&A: Commercial Realtor Dan Scanlon
For nearly two decades, Dan Scanlon, a senior associate at Colliers, has worked in New Hampshire’s commercial real estate market, working on investment, industrial, office and land development.
Moondance for a lucky couple: $7,000
Jimmy's Jazz & Blues Club in Portsmouth has booked Irish singer Van Morrison for a two-night stand in October. Remaining tickets are priced as high as $3,000 each plus fees.
NH Business Notebook: Get your wings
While the aftermath of President Joe Biden’s decision to drop out of the race for reelection was unfolding, U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-NH, was overseas leading a bipartisan delegation to the Farnborough International Air Show with Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas.
MilliporeSigma joins NH Life Sciences as fourth founding member
The Jaffrey company becomes the group’s fourth founding member, alongside Novocure (Portsmouth), Novo Nordisk (Lebanon) and Timberline Construction (Merrimack), to join the statewide trade association.
NH Business Notebook: The color of law
Nicole Bluefort aims to fill niche with Manchester legal office
The Z factor
The post-and-beam building that Jim Zanello built at Zorvino Vineyards was never intended to become a venue that hosts more than 100 weddings and other events each year.
NH Business Notebook: Taking action for kids
Parent Leadership Training Institute aims to improve the lives of children
Q&A: Granite United Way President and CEO Patrick Tufts
Patrick Tufts says Granite United Way is probably the “best known and least known” nonprofit in New Hampshire. As president and CEO, Tufts oversees an organization that was established in New Hampshire nearly a century ago and has national roots 140 years old.
Life Is Good launches ‘Keep it Simple’ custom T-shirt business at new Hudson plant
Business has been steady since Life is Good opened its 500,000-square-foot production and fulfillment center three months ago in Hudson, where it has had a presence for more than 20 years
$500 million says Dean Kamen’s ARMI can manufacture human body parts in Manchester
ReGen Valley’s latest $44 million ups the ante to a half a billion dollars since 2017
Breeze Airways announces service to Orlando and Fort Myers from Portsmouth
Breeze Airways, which debuted in New Hampshire last month with service from Manchester, plans to start flying to Orlando and Fort Myers from Portsmouth in October, the low-cost carrier announced Wednesday. The 3-year-old airline offers point-to-point service from 58 U.S. destinations on its new fleet of Airbus A220-300 aircraft. It plans flights from Pease International Airport to Orlando on Wednesdays and Saturdays beginning Oct. 9, and to Fort Myers on Thursdays and Sundays beginning Oct. 10.
ReGen Valley to receive $44 million through federal Tech Hubs program
The Manchester effort to escalate the mass production of human tissue and organs has been earmarked for $44 million from the federal government, officials announced Tuesday. ReGen Valley” — the marketing moniker for the Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute — is one of 12 Tech Hubs selected for funding by U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration.
Fresh air at MHT
With a drizzle coming down and the sun trying to poke through the sky, Manchester-Boston Regional Airport (MHT) celebrated the inaugural flight of Breeze Airways last week, the third new carrier in three years to begin flights from the Queen City.
Q&A: Tech entrepreneur and educator Rajesh Nair
Rajesh Nair has endured the ups and downs of being an technology entrepreneur, enjoying hard-won success and painful failures.
Q&A: Health care entrepreneur Nick Vailas
Nick Vailas has been in the local health care industry for four decades, co-founding and operating a family of businesses that offer physical therapy, outpatient surgical care, urgent care and diagnostics
Business Notebook: Investing in the club
Fidelity team nurtures partnership with the Boys & Girls Club of Manchester
Leadership Unscripted
On June 6, I’ll be moderating Leadership Unscripted, a forum that runs from 8 to 11:30 a.m. at the Rex Theatre in Manchester.
Q&A: Apparel Impact CEO Joe Whitten
To date, Apparel Impact has diverted over 65 million clothing items from entering a landfill - a number that Whitten hopes to grow
M&T Bank president’s support for Easterseals has personal roots
M&T Bank’s decision to finance an affordable housing complex for veterans in Franklin overseen by Easterseals NH was a natural progression for Tim Wade, the bank’s regional president in New Hampshire.
ARMI project secures $100 million from Department of Defense
10-year agreement for Dean Kamen-led biofabrication effort in Manchester builds on federal Tech Hub designation
Q&A: Swim With a Mission co-founder Phil Taub and Hidden Battles Foundation founder Scott Hyder
Phil Taub, with his wife, Julie, co-founded Swim With a Mission, a Bedford-based nonprofit that raises funds for veterans services and holds several fundraisers throughout the year, including its signature swim race at Newfound Lake in July. Army and police veteran Scott Hyder founded Hidden Battles Foundation, a Dracut, Mass.-based nonprofit that helps veterans and first-responders, both active and retired, cope with mental health issues.
Drilling down on the ‘New Hampshire 200’
The first thing I did with my copy of “New Hampshire 200” after I brought it home from the office was to drill a hole through it. Now it had a utility function similar to the “Old Farmer’s Almanac,” the 232-year-old annual produced by our parent company, Yankee Publishing Inc.
Tougher than the rest
Imagine undergoing training led by people whose sole mission in life is to do everything they can to ensure you fail, to push you to your limits until you break.
Q&A: Rise Private Wealth Mgt. Co-founder Bob Bonfiglio
From engineer to co-founder, Bob Bonfiglio has developed a strategic plan to create a business that evolves as it grows
A victory lap and a forecast for another good year
In my last column, I shared some anecdotes that help tell the story of the New Hampshire economy, but I would not make any important decisions based on the laments of my Lyft driver or rumors about remote working from skiers on the gondola at Loon. For data-crunching, we have people like Brian Gottlob, director of the state Economic and Labor Market Information Bureau.
The economy according to my Lyft driver and those kids I met on the chairlift at Loon
A couple of weeks ago, the Chamber Collaborative of Portsmouth invited me to talk about the state economy during a forum that featured people who have a much firmer grasp on the data than I do.
Nonstop at 95
Don’t ask Jack Middleton when he will retire. He doesn’t know how.
Dave’s Hot Chicken fires up Queen City tender war
This week, Dave’s Hot Chicken, a trendy chain whose investors include the rapper, Drake, opened in Manchester, serving fried chicken sandwiches on a retail strip already saturated with fast-food joints.
Life sciences trade group announces founding member companies
New Hampshire Life Sciences (NHLS), a newly formed trade group that supports the Granite State’s life sciences industry, has signed two companies that employ hundreds of workers as its inaugural founding members. Novocure operates its North American flagship location in Portsmouth, where it employs between 300 and 400 workers. Novo Nordisk employs 350 people in West Lebanon.
Art for everyone’s sake
Open Arts United aims to increase access to cultural activities
Foolproof predictions for 2024
Workforce, housing, child care continue to top NH’s list of needs
Stashing the cash at home
Bill would require state and local tax revenues to be invested in New Hampshire banks
The truth according to Vivek Ramaswamy
As time winds down for the Jan. 23 New Hampshire primary, GOP presidential contender Vivek Ramaswamy has been making a name for himself but has failed to make much of an impact. The former biotech executive, who spent considerable time…
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NH delegation announces $925K for NH MEP
MEPs nationwide had been targeted for elimination by the Trump administration
NH delegation announces $925,000 for NH Manufacturing Extension Partnership
New Hampshire’s congressional delegation Friday announced nearly $925,000 in federal funding to the New Hampshire Manufacturing Extension Partnership, saving it from closure. The NH MEP will receive the funding from the National Institute of Standards and Technology to help local small and medium-sized manufacturers join the MEP National Network’s new National Supply Chain Optimization and Intelligence Network.
Gun manufacturers win limited liability in NH bill
Newington-based Sig Sauer has faced numerous lawsuits over one of its pistols
U.S. senators: 150 Portsmouth Naval Shipyard hires held up by federal office
Despite being approved for hire, nearly 150 new workers at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard have yet to begin their employment due to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management holding up their processing, according to New Hampshire and Maine U.S. senators.
Around the planet 25 times
SubCom celebrated a milestone this month when it became the first company to deploy 1 million kilometers of subsea cable systems.
Chinese water bottling company subsidiary appears to be new owner of Nashua building
A large commercial building in Nashua’s Westwood Park has been purchased for $67 million by what appears to be a subsidiary of Nongfu Spring, a giant Chinese bottled water and beverage company that plans to expand into the United States.
CCSNH’s ApprenticeshipNH and Lonza launch new biomanufacturing apprenticeship program
ApprenticeshipNH, the workforce training program of the Community College System of New Hampshire, is collaborating with Lonza on a new apprenticeship program at its Portsmouth facility
NH manufacturing resource center faces shutdown
While President Trump says the tariffs fueling a global trade war will jumpstart U.S. manufacturing, he is pulling funding from the Manufacturing Extension Partnership program, the federal centers dedicated to supporting its growth. The president and director of the New Hampshire MEP expects it to close if the cuts continue.
Florida manufacturer acquires Hudson surveillance optics company
A Florida infrared optical components manufacturer recently acquired a Hudson-based thermal imaging and optics business emphasizing surveillance in a move the two companies estimate will create $55 million in revenue for the next year.
