It’s a business model that’s worked around the world for 150 years, but at its heart the cooperative movement is about more than the bottom line. Since the first cooperative was formed in rural England in 1844, cooperatives have sought…
Unexplained claptrap has been put forward by candidates Bush and Kerry alike. Some 45 million Americans are uninsured as I write. If it costs $1,000 to insure each of them we have just spent $45 billion. If $2,000, then $90…
More than 11 years after a fire destroyed his million-dollar home in Hampton Falls, along with his collections of paintings, antique cars, motorcycles and other valuables, Dr. Terry Bennett is still battling with the insurance company over coverage. “The average…
At the beginning of 2004, the New Hampshire Manufacturing Extension Partnership was on the verge of shutting its doors. Faced with a 60 percent federal budget cut, the program that has helped local manufacturers increase or retain $34.6 million in…
If you want to move or expand your business near Nashua, and you are looking to put together a financing package, check out the new kid on the block, Gateway Industrial Development Corp. Gateway, actually a revival of the defunct…
Foreign sales from New Hampshire companies receded in August as global demand for locally made goods retreated from its high levels in the previous months. Shipments abroad from New Hampshire exporters pulled back by 2.1 percent in August, following an…
Former Enterasys Networks Chief Executive Henry Fiallo’s guilty plea last month on securities fraud charges was the first time an official of the firm has admitted inflating sales by investing in small start-ups that purchased Enterasys products. But it was…
A Pike steps down at Pike Industries Effective Jan. 1, Randolph K. Pike, current president and CEO of Belmont-based Pike Industries, will be stepping down from his post, to be succeeded by Christian Zimmerman, an 18-year employee of the firm.…
At first glance, the proposed 47-acre Islington Woods development in Portsmouth doesn’t appear extraordinary with its mixed-use aspirations of residential townhouses and office space. But the developers say Islington Woods will be very different, and deliberately so. It will be…
Partnerships are critical to business success, and a partnership developed by the New Hampshire Business Resource Center and Brookstone Inc. is just what led the specialty retailer to stay in the Granite State and built a 100,000-square-foot corporate headquarters in…
