Author: NH Business Review Staff

It seems like you could spend your entire day traveling from one trade show and business exposition to another. Industry-specific, business-to-business and business-to-consumer - the list is never-ending. With so many possible choices for your promotions dollar, businesspeople are asking…

If the name Accentus sounds familiar, that’s because it probably is. The Hanover-based firm was the winner earlier this year in the initial Start Up New Hampshire business plan competition, garnering a $40,000 prize for its efforts. The company -…

Northeast Delta Dental of Concord was recently named among the top 50 “Best Small & Medium Companies to Work for in America” by the Society for Human Resource Management. The company, which administers dental benefits to more than 650,000 people…

For the last year or so, I have never thought of Governor Benson as a Republican. And I’m not alone. Most spectators of the political scene have quickly observed that the governor who ran as a Republican is actually an…

Over the course of recent years, leaders of our state’s government have worked to craft a solution to — quite arguably — the most challenging public-policy debate New Hampshire has grappled with in modern times. As a former House member…

A series of articles on outsourcing by the New Hampshire Business Review’s Cindy Kibbe (the third and final part can be found on page 1B) has highlighted the complex ramifications of the practice. While it’s true that sending jobs overseas…

When advocating for the founding of national forests, President Theodore Roosevelt listed as a reason for their creation “to preserve the timber supply for various classes of wood users.” Since its founding, New Hampshire’s White Mountain National Forest has been…

To the editor: As a follow up to your recent article (“Outsourcing: The good, the bad and the inevitable,” July 9-22 NHBR), AeA, the largest high-tech association in the United States, has sent a copy of its white paper addressing…

Education in New Hampshire has been the state’s central political issue for the last decade or so (or is it century?). The funding of it, the adequacy of it and the relation it has to our political lives has been…

Successful firms are coming to realize that their success is not a “forever” thing. The shelf life of entire companies is shrinking almost as fast as the shelf life of their products and services. For years, internal research and development…

It’s summertime, and the livin’ is easy — until you have to pair that wine with summer’s fresh foods. Gordon Heins, wine specialist for the State Liquor Commission, takes all the guesswork out of finding that perfect summer wine. And…

A Child’s Gift Golf Tournament, Aug. 20, Nippo Lake Golf Club, Barrington. Proceeds to benefit Wide Horizons for Children’s Adoption Subsidy program which provides financial assistance to those looking to adopt a child. Cost: $100 per golfer. Contact: Rob Secinaro,…

Far be it from F&J to stir up trouble, but we’d love to have an answer to this question: To whom was Governor Benson referring when he told Kevin Landrigan of The Telegraph, while complaining about being held to a…

“I have bad luck hitting them but good luck not getting hurt.” - Berlin Mayor Bob Danderson after hitting a moose for the second time in his driving career, this one while in a Mazda Miata convertible. “We heeded the…

Considering the state of politics in New Hampshire, perhaps Senate President Tom Eaton and Majority Leader Bob Clegg shouldn’t have taken offense at outgoing Sen. Burt Cohen’s recent commentary comparing them to “party bosses in Soviet Russia.” They don’t bare…

While on the stump, John Lynch, the Democratic gubernatorial hopeful, has taken to telling voters an anecdote from four years ago. When he was being interviewed for a spot on the University System of New Hampshire board of trustees, he…

Perhaps it’s in the interests of budget-cutting that various news outlets have apparently been reducing their political coverage by dispensing with the primaries. A case in point - THE case in point, in fact - is the apparent decision to…

Most of us are stymied when faced with the monolithic walls of wine bottles at the grocery store or the state liquor shop. It gets even worse if you attempt to go to one of the very few wine cellars…

Matthew Gregg, co-founder of the New Hampshire Theatre Awards and longtime member of the McLean Communications family, has been hard at work on a Broadway musical, “Nine 11,” based on the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In his passion…

Whoever said too many cooks spoil the broth obviously wasn’t a team player, because that is exactly what Chez Boucher’s Cooking School is trying to do - build teams through Culinary Adventures cooking classes. “Participants will have to choose a…

• After his hysterical “Crossfire” performance on the State House lawn last month, calling CNN’s Tucker Carlson a twerp would be an insult to all the other twerps. • Who’ll have to wait longer before they actually get the cash in their…

Stonyfield Farm’s Strong Women conference - profiled last year in the New Hampshire Business Review - is coming to Boston in September. “Strong Women Saturday” is billed as an ambitious undertaking patterned after the Londonderry-based yogurt maker’s successful Strong Women…

Manchester: Ted Herbert’s Music Mart, a Manchester landmark, is merging with the Frederick, Md.-based Music and Arts Centers chain. Terms of the deal, which includes the music store business but not the music school or the store property, were undisclosed.…

Venture capitalists invested $916.6 million into New England firms in the second quarter — the most since late 2001 — according to a new study. New England venture investing increased for the third consecutive quarter, as investors placed big bets…

Banknorth Group (BNK) reported second-quarter net income of $95.8 million, a 10 percent increase over a year ago. For the quarter, Banknorth had income of 55 cents per share, up from 53 cents for the same period last year. Its…

Three of the nation’s largest cellular phone companies have reached a deal with 32 states, including New Hampshire, that requires them to be more up-front with customers in their advertisements and service plans. Verizon Wireless, Cingular Wireless and Sprint PCS…

With a state budget deficit that some project to be $300 million over the next biennium looming in the near future, tax revenues are likely to be a big issue in this fall’s election and during the 2005 legislative session…

The Sununu bill is an attempt to prevent conflicting state regulations from slowing introduction of the technology The Senate Commerce Committee has added some confusion to the effort to bar states from regulating Voice over Internet Protocol service for three…

The U.S. Senate and U.S. Congress passed a defense bill that provides contracts to several New Hampshire firms, led by BAE Systems. The conference report on the Fiscal Year 2005 Defense Appropriations Act includes $103.65 million in federal funding sought…

Neighborhood Housing Services of Greater Nashua was the top recipient of an annual federal grant to help alleviate the lack of affordable housing and promote economic development in Nashua. The nonprofit received a total of about $487,000 in financial assistance,…

An Auburn real estate developer is planning to buy the 140-acre riverfront farm in Franklin where Daniel Webster grew up and turn it into retirement housing. Elmer Pease II of PD Associates Real Estate Consultants signed a purchase and sales…

The Portsmouth Planning Board has approved site plans for a new 22,000-square-foot Hilton Hotel along Hanover and High streets, but the project could face civil action over its potential threat to downtown parking. The board voted 7-2 to approve Cathartes…

The Concord Planning Board has postponed a decision on a proposed 124-townhouse development on Bog Road. Developer Reggie Moreau of R.J. Moreau Communities in Bedford filed his application for the Vineyards townhouses last fall, and then went through a series…

Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage of Waltham, Mass. — the largest residential real estate brokerage company in New England — has bought Preferred Properties Inc. of Moultonboro. The purchase price was not disclosed. In 2003, Preferred Properties’ 31 residential real estate…

Exeter Hospital has opened its $6 million radiation therapy center, becoming the region’s only accredited comprehensive community hospital cancer program. In 2003, Exeter Hospital was granted a certificate of need from the state to add radiation therapy to its cancer…

Amisys Synertech Inc., a Rockville, Md.-based provider of advanced software products and claims processing services for health-care payers, and Manchester-based Choicelinx Corp., a provider of Web-based solutions and consumer-directed technology products for the health insurance industry, have signed a definitive…

In June, health-care professionals from across the state and New England met to discuss how to build a telehealth initiative in New Hampshire. The two-day “Telehealth NH” seminar was sponsored by the North Country Health Consortium Inc., a Littleton-based rural…

When David Gottesman decided to run for the New Hampshire Senate in District 12, it took some of his friends and neighbors by surprise. “My life is pretty busy,” said the Nashua attorney. “People were wondering why I was doing…

New Hampshire should consider helping to offer affordable long-term care insurance to younger and middle-aged residents, according to Health and Human Services Commissioner John Stephen. Stephen said his advisory council is exploring how to encourage young citizens to buy long-term…

As part of the state’s continued effort to privatize social services, the Department of Health and Human Services is negotiating with a for-profit contractor to manage the care of the sickest of the poor. The department’s embrace of so-called disease…