The New Hampshire Business Review won first place for General Excellence at the Feb. 7 New England Press Association 54th annual convention and trade show. The newspaper was honored in the biweekly category. NHBR reporter Bob Sanders took a second-place…
The New Hampshire Bureau of Securities Regulations has jumped into the growing national mutual fund scandals in a big way, helping to investigate and negotiate a tentative settlement -- reportedly in the $200 million range -- with Boston-based MFS Investment…
It is called the Omnibus Spending Bill, the annual appropriation by Congress that covers several departments, a multitude of programs, and several hundred billion dollars. But it also might be called the “ominous” spending bill for the legendary barrels of…
Lost in the political firestorm surrounding Choicelinx and how it won an $890,000 state contract, is the company’s product -- an agile and robust benefits software system that can save insurers and employers thousands of dollars. The Manchester-based firm was…
Rich Krasnow blames himself for the 50 percent increase in health insurance premiums at his company, Payroll Matters in Manchester. Krasnow has only seven employees -- clerical workers who are young and healthy. Under a new state law that went…
What’s being described as the second-largest construction project in New Hampshire history has gotten the green light from the federal government. U.S. Senator Judd Gregg’s announced on Jan. 30 that a $154.5 million federal prison will be constructed in Berlin…
In the last 8-1/2 years the country has experienced an unprecedented run-up in home prices. Over this time, the rise in home sale prices has been more than 40 percentage points higher than the overall rate of inflation. Typically, home…
It’s not often a businessman has the chance to rehabilitate a favorite childhood hangout, but for Fred Baybutt of Keene that’s precisely what he’s doing with Granite Gorge. Baybutt, one of the members of the Baybutt Construction family, bought the…
Scandals, trials and a very loudly burst bubble wound up giving some people a phobia about investing in the stock market, whether it’s individual stocks or mutual funds. But it’s probably pretty safe to say that the clients of Tom…
Rich Krasnow blames himself for the 50 percent increase in health insurance premiums at his company, Payroll Matters in Manchester. Krasnow has only seven employees -- clerical workers who are young and healthy. Under a new state law that went…
