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Merger will enrich CBT execs

Community Bank and Trust’s chief executive, board chairman and vice chairman - all of whom recommended that the Wolfeboro bank should merge with Chittenden Corp.’s Ocean Bank -- will receive $560,000 in salaries and cash and more than $1.1 million…

Cedar Point takes second spot on Inc. 500

Cedar Point Communications has been recognized as the second-fastest growing private company in the United States as well as the country’s fastest-growing telecommunications company by Inc. magazine. The Derry-based firm’s revenue growth rate of 14,853.3 percent between 2003 and 2006…

Portsmouth firm to buy third D.C. hospital

Specialty Hospitals of America, a Portsmouth-based operator of long-term acute care hospitals, is about to acquire its third facility in Washington, D.C. The Washington Post reported Thursday that the owner of Greater Southeast Community Hospital has agreed in principle to…

Business Excellence Awards deadline today

The deadline for submitting nominations for the New Hampshire Business Review’s Business Excellence Awards is today. The award honors people who often don’t receive recognition for their work: owners and executives of small businesses. Businesspeople in 14 different industries will…

SkillSoft sells financial services unit

SkillSoft has sold its FinancialCampus unit to financial services training company SmartPros for an undisclosed price. Both the Nashua-based e-trainer SkillSoft and SmartPros of Hawthorne, N.Y., have experienced significant growth in the last few years through the acquisition of other…

Thermo probe reveals Fisher options timing

An internal investigation into practices governing how stock options were granted at the former Fisher Scientific revealed that the Hampton-based company sometimes retroactively timed granting of the options to its executives’ benefit, according to documents filed with the Securities and…