Stephen Boucher, chairman and chief executive of Airmar Technology Corp., has always believed a successful company must be guided by a single overriding principle. For Airmar, that principle is customer satisfaction, something Boucher says is attainable only through fairness -…
It’s estimated that as many as 60 percent of home-health workers will be unable to respond to an emergency due to their own health or that of a member of their family. For those who are homebound due to illness…
A newly released report finds that New Hampshire’s small hospitals are struggling to care for patients who need treatment for mental illness. The report, “Help Needed: Emergency Mental Health Care in New Hampshire’s Rural Hospitals,” stems from a study conducted…
It didn’t take much for Jack Fischer, general manager of Southeastern Container’s Northeast region, to convince his superiors to spend more than $313,000 to help the firm’s Hudson plant stop wasting energy. It wasn’t just that the bottle manufacturer’s major…
Just say no to ‘nannies’ There’s more than a little irony that, in GOP presidential wannabe Rudy Giuliani’s travels around New Hampshire, he’s been scaring his audiences with the threat that Democrats seeking the office all want a “nanny” government.…
New Hampshire Health and Human Services Commissioner John Stephen’s departure from his job - announced in a letter to the governor last month — was expected, now that there are three members of the Executive Council of the governor’s party…
Bentley Pharmaceuticals’ quarterly profits dropped sharply as a result of the Spanish government’s policy of cutting the cost of prescription medicine as well as increased operating costs, the company announced Thursday.. The Exeter-based provider of generic drugs and alternative delivery…
A Massachusetts-based telecommunications consultant is vigorously recommending that the New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission reject FairPoint Communications’ proposed acquisition of Verizon’s telephone lines in New Hampshire. In testimony delivered Monday to the PUC on behalf of the commission’s Office of…
N.H. ice cream not forgotten The following letter was addressed to Cindy Kibbe, assistant editor at New Hampshire Business Review, in response to her Last Word article, “I still scream for ‘Granite’ ice cream,” which appeared in our June 8-21…
During a conversation with Kurt Dolley, the untrained eye would probably never know he has Tourette’s syndrome. The quiet 29-year-old would most likely come off as a little nervous. That’s because Dolley, like most people with Tourette’s, doesn’t swear uncontrollably.…
