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Creditors trying to attach the New Hampshire financial assets of the former chief executive of Foss Manufacturing may have come up empty. Stephen Foss, accused of looting the Hampton company while it was insolvent, has more than a million dollars…

A federal study released Wednesday projects that New Hampshire’s largest airport could see passenger traffic increase by 87 percent in the next decade. The New England Regional Airport System Plan, a mammoth 12-year study conducted by the New England Airport…

After personally experiencing the aggravation sparked by recent airline regulations governing liquid or gel-based carry-ons, the owners of a Silver Lake business have made it possible for travelers to have complete personal-care kits delivered and waiting for them at their…

Deborah Platt Majoras, chair of the Federal Trade Commission, will be the keynote speaker at the upcoming Business and Industry Association annual dinner. The evening will begin at 5 p.m. Nov. 8 at the Center of New Hampshire, Manchester. Among…

The University of New Hampshire has launched its first degree program outside the United States, offering a master of science in the management of technology to students in Seoul, South Korea. A program of the Whittemore School of Business and…

The Small Business Adminsitration backed 1,028 loans valued at a total of more than $127 million to New Hampshire businesses in the 2006 fiscal year that ended Sept. 30. The number of SBA-backed loans was down 17 percent from the…

More than 560,000 out-of-state visitors are expected to take part in leaf-peeping for the upcoming Columbus Day Weekend, according to estimates released Tuesday by the state Division of Travel and Tourism Development. According to a report put together for the…

Beginning this fall, buyers of Timberland footwear will bring their new purchases home in environmentally friendlier packaging boasting a product information label outlining the company’s environmental and community footprint. The new “Our Footprint” label will resemble the “nutrition facts” label…

A decline in residential and nonbuilding construction in New Hampshire continues, according to newly released data from McGraw Hill Construction. The Lexington, Mass.-based firm said that contracts for future residential construction were down 26 percent, to $96.5 million, in August…

New Hampshire has seen a net loss of 5,502 trade-related jobs since the North American Free Trade Agreement took effect 12 years ago. According to a three-country study by the non partisan Economic Policy Institute, 10,778 trade-related New Hampshire jobs…