VF Corp.'s acquisition of Stratham-based The Timberland Company earlier this year has paid off immediately and more than expected, according to the North Carolina-based firm's earnings report released Monday.VF closed the deal $2.3 billion deal on Sept. 13, and it…
Leesa A. Smith is president of Freudenberg North America Limited Partnership, coordinating services affecting more than 6,000 employees at 15 companies. She was recently appointed the North American (and only female) representative to the international firm's global executive team.NHBR interviewed…
Complaints against payday and other high-interest small lenders nearly doubled in New Hampshire after they were effectively banned from the state in July 2010 -- a statistic that supporters seized on Wednesday in moving forward a bill that would bring…
Republican members of the House Commerce Committee bucked their leadership Thursday and voted 15-5 to endorse a health insurance mandate requiring insurance companies to cover people who use naturopathic practitioners as primary care physicians.If the bill is approved, the insurance…
A financing company has sued "self-made" businessman Harold J. Brooks, founder of Brooks Properties in Salem, for more than $2 million over a loan to buy a private jet.Connecticut-based VFS Financing Inc. charges that Brooks personally guaranteed a $4.77 million…
One of the Republican mantras during the last election was to get rid of all mandates that were said to be driving up the cost of group health insurance for small businesses.On Tuesday, in both the House and Senate's commerce…
For the second time in two months, White Mountains Insurance Group will be buying back shares in a "modified Dutch auction."Under the auction, which started Monday, a shareholder can name his or her price -- between $385 and $425 --…
Total future construction contracts in New Hampshire continued their troubling year-over-year downward trend in August.Future construction contracts totaled $93.3 million in August -- a 27 percent drop from the $127.1 million recorded in August 2010. Still that was an increase…
Cheshire Medical Center in Keene, charged with discriminating against a deaf patient for the second time in seven years, has agreed to pay a $25,000 fine to the federal government and to insure that services are provided to deaf patients…
"Usury is in the eye of the beholder," said John Hunt, R-Rindge, chairman of the House Commerce Committee, as his panel on Tuesday considered allowing high-interest payday loans in New Hampshire once again.House Bill 160 refers to them as "installment…
