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…
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…
In the 15 months since Tom Metzger took over as chairman, president and CEO of Citizens Bank New Hampshire, he’s certainly made himself at home. In fact, Metzger - a 30-year veteran of the banking industry, including eight years as…
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.…
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…
• 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
