The New Hampshire Citizens Health Initiative has launched a new Web site aimed at helping employers find answers to questions about health plans available in the Granite State. In a nutshell, NHHealthInfo.org is a Web site of Web sites, or…
Tom Chappell, founder of Tom’s of Maine, will discuss how he and his family took an idea for environmentally friendly products and grew it into the one of the nation’s leading brands of natural care products “The Story of Tom’s…
The Timberland Company has once again been included on Fortune magazine's “100 Best Companies to Work For” list. A manufacturer of footwear, clothing and accessories, Timberland was ranked 78th on this year’s list. It’s the ninth consecutive year that the…
Hanover resident Ray Barrette has taken back the reins at White Mountains Insurance Group, replacing former board Chairman Jack Byrne and Chief Executive Officer Steve Fass, both of whom are retiring from their positions, the company announced Monday. “I can’t…
Gov. John Lynch was inaugurated with his fellow executive branch members on Jan. 4, taking the oath of office before the new Legislature with its Democratic majorities, after which he swore in his Executive Council, composed of Republicans Ray Burton…
Alex Ray’s 13 New Hampshire restaurants and diners include five Common Man restaurants, following the success of the first one he started in 1971 in Ashland. A new Common Man in Claremont is now under construction. At 61, the New…
Not many small New Hampshire businesses go from start-up to $500,000 in sales in less than a year, but Namtek Corp. has done just that — by focusing on the federal government as its primary customer. Bedford-based Namtek was founded…
New Hampshire has become the magnet in New England for short-term high-interest lenders, and state lawmakers are becoming increasingly uneasy about it. Since the Legislature eliminated interest-rate caps in 1999, some 42 payday and title loan lenders have sprung up…
ExxonMobil: not a good corporate citizen To the editor: For several years now, those involved in the climate change arena have known about a massive disinformation campaign being waged by ExxonMobil as they try to obfuscate the issue in order…
The jury, of course, is still out on whether Democrats can do any better than Republicans at governing New Hampshire. But one way of measuring their success will be to see whether they choose to stay with the business-as-usual status…
