Hooksett: Merchants Automotive Group has sold its rental car division to Enterprise Rent-A-Car. Headquartered in Hooksett, Merchants has 17 rental locations and some 1,500 vehicles. Merchants’ operations include new and used vehicle sales and service, as well as corporate fleet…
Exeter: After filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last month, Kitchen Etc. is closing all of its stores, including those in Nashua, Manchester, and Newington. Kitchen Etc. Inc. operates 17 retail stores in nine states, and offered its products worldwide…
Manchester: Robert Scully, executive director of the New Hampshire Motor Transport Association, is warning his members to steer clear of Boston during the Democratic National Convention. Scully said law enforcement officials in Massachusetts expect a 14-mile backup and a 2-1/2…
Nashua: Two lawyers in Nashua are filing class-action lawsuits against more than a dozen lenders and credit insurance companies that they say have failed to refund insurance premiums to car buyers, as required by state law.
Concord: USA Springs and the state have reached an agreement on a groundwater withdrawal permit allowing the Pelham-based company to build a bottling plant and collect more than 300,000 gallons a day from wells on its property in Nottingham. The…
Park City, Utah: American Skiing Co. and Triple Peaks LLC, a group of investors led by the owners of Okemo in Vermont and operators of Mt. Sunapee in New Hampshire, announced that they have settled a lawsuit over the proposed…
Presstek Inc., a Hudson-based maker of digital imaging machines, is acquiring the bankrupt A.B.Dick Co. for $40 million. A.B.Dick, a worldwide supplier to the graphic arts and printing industry, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection earlier in July, which makes…
Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Hampshire has announced that it’s going back to the drawing board to help build a tiered health-care product with some of the state’s largest purchasers of health insurance. “This cause is so worthy,…
Many industries in New Hampshire are ”below the radar.” They’re businesses that for one reason or another are not very visible or are hard to reduce to mere statistics. One of them is the general aviation business. A general aviation…
• You’ve to have some sympathy for Kelly Ayotte. She quit her post as the governor’s legal counsel last year only a few of months after taking the job to become deputy attorney general. Now she’s back to working as…
