The legal costs of fighting the city’s efforts to take Pennichuck Corp. by eminent domain cut into the utility’s third-quarter profit, according to Donald L. Correll, Pennichuck’s president and chief executive officer. The water company earned $577,000, or 24 cents…
If a proposed change in federal rules wins approval, mid-sized banks won’t have to meet the same stringent Community Reinvestment Act requirements they now do to serve their entire communities. The change could affect a third of the banks that…
Foreign sales of locally made goods have considerably bolstered this year as demand from around the globe has strengthened significantly. State companies have reaped the benefits of a gradually falling dollar, which works its way in boosting exports. A weak…
Manchester, N.H., and Hong Kong remain half a world apart geographically, but the two cities are remarkably similar in their economic development, according to Sara P.C. Wu, director of Hong Kong’s Economic & Trade Office in New York. “Hong Kong…
Lisa DeStefano, owner and principal of DeStefano Architects, was born and bred in Portsmouth. So when she decided to give free rein to her entrepreneurial spirit and open up her own design firm - just a handful of years after…
Jim Roche, currently president and chief executive officer of a chamber of commerce in central New York state, has been picked as the next president of the Business & Industry Association of New Hampshire. Roche will assume his new duties…
Ron Bills, president and CEO of Segway LLC, has announced his intention to resign in mid-December after a little more than a year on the job. Bills cited family reasons when informing the company of his departure. An executive committee…
Help wanted Never mind that when he was then-incoming governor, Craig Benson insisted that Jeanne Shaheen butt out of the nomination game now that she was a lame duck. And never mind that the governor picked a curious moment to…
It’s time once again for Off The Clock’s annual review of gift books for the coming holiday season. Every year I ask booksellers across the state what’s new in gorgeous books — books meant to be seen as much as…
Riding in my automobile the other day, I heard two stories on the radio in quick succession that raised the issue of money and politics. The first was about House Speaker Gene Chandler and the investigation into his “corn roast”…
