NHBR’s editors recently met with businesspeople from around Manchester to get their take on how the area’s economy is faring and what their expectations are for the future.The participants were:• Monica Zulauf, executive director, Manchester YWCA• Mike Reed, president, Stebbins…
Prices at the pump in New Hampshire are continuing their march up from last week.As of Wednesday, a gallon of regular gas in Manchester was about $2.75, a penny higher than the previous day and 3 cents higher than last…
CPEX Pharmaceuticals has abandoned its attempt to develop Nasulin, a nasal insulin spray and one of the company’s key potential products when it was spun off from Bentley Pharmaceuticals in the summer of 2008.The Exeter-based firm buried the news in…
Northeast Bancorp, the parent company of Northeast Bank, announced net income of $530,632, or 20 cents per share, for its third quarter ended March 31, an increase of 37 percent compared to income of $387,370, or 14 cents per share,…
Workers with their hours cut should be able to collect unemployment benefits, even though they are still employed.Hospitals and insurers should collectively pay a $250,000 fee to study why the cost of health care is going up.Vendors who repeatedly sell…
Coach Inc., the maker and distributor of more than $3 billion worth of leather purses and other fashion accessories, has sued the owner of a Derry flea market for letting a number of vendors-to-be-named later sell knock offs.Coach filed the…
Credit rating agency A.M. Best has affirmed the rating of MEMIC Indemnity Company, a subsidiary of MEMIC Group of Portland, Maine, with offices in Manchester, of A, according to a release by the insurance company.According to the ratings agency, MEMIC…
UBS Securities Inc. will pay the organization that once issued nearly all of New Hampshire's student loans $20 million, as part of the state Securities Regulation Bureau's largest securities fraud settlement to date. UBS also agreed to reimburse the bureau…
The New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office was asked in 2003 about freezing the assets of Financial Resources Mortgage Inc. -- more than six years before the Meredith firm went bankrupt.That bankruptcy could cost hundreds of investors millions of dollars in…
The New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office – currently conducting a review into how state agencies responded to the Ponzi scheme allegedly hatched by Financial Resources Mortgage Inc. of Meredith – itself received communications in 2003 from the New Hampshire Bureau…
