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The closing of Talbots’ Hingham call center in Massachusetts will have no affect on the J. Jill call and distribution center located in Tilton, despite the May merger between the two companies, according to Talbot officials. “The Tilton call center…

Newport-based Lake Sunapee Bank has announced plans to expand farther south in New Hampshire with a branch in Milford. Stephen Ensign, president and CEO of the bank, said Lake Sunapee will open its new full-service banking office at the corner…

Environmental Power Corporation reported a more than 10 percent decrease in total revenues for the three months ended June 30. Revenues decreased by 10.7 percent, or $1.6 million, to $13.3 million, from $14.9 million for the same time period in…

A federal bankruptcy judge has approved an investigation into the possible destruction of data on a computer used by top executives at RNI Wind Down Corporation, the bankrupt shell of Riverstone Networks Inc. The order, signed last Thursday, would allow…

Thomas P. Sullivan has been named vice president of Sturm, Ruger & Company’s Newport operations, overseeing the firm’s firearms manufacturing and Pine Tree Castings facilities in New Hampshire. He most recently was vice president of lean enterprise at IMI Norgren…

New Hampshire exporters are making the most of a weakened dollar, according to a new study by the International Private Enterprise Center at the University of New Hampshire Whittemore School of Business and Economics. According to the center, the Nominal…

U.S. Sen. John Sununu has added his support to efforts to pass the Women’s Small Business Ownership Programs Act of 2006, legislation designed to strengthen the Small Business Administration’s Women’s Business Center program. Sununu said the legislation (S. 3659) “would…

Bottomline Technologies’ bottom line is in the red for the fourth quarter and the year as a whole, partly because of the stock options taken by top company officials. The Portsmouth-based payroll software firm reported a net loss of $900,000…

Family ties When White Mountains Insurance announced on August 4 that it was putting up OneBeacon Insurance in a $500 million public offering - complete with the ticker symbol OB - most investors would imagine it as a huge spin-off.…

Samuel Beckett was born in Dublin 100 years ago, and as part of the centenary celebration of the Nobel Prize-winning playwright, poet and novelist is a display at the State Library that also serves as a reminder of the business,…