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Bentley Pharmaceuticals announced second-quarter earnings similar to those it turned in for the second quarter last year. The Exeter-based company said it earned $2.6 million, or 12 cents a diluted share, for the quarter -- about the same as the…

Nearly 80 hospitals on the East Coast, including New Hampshire, have signed up to participate in WellPoint’s hospital quality program. Quality Insights Hospital Program, or Q-HIP, was launched in 2003 in Virginia and was rolled out recently to the rest…

Businesses have been invited to take part in the Governor’s Commission on Disability’s Inclusive Regional Job Fair, scheduled for Wednesday, September 13, in Concord. The fair, designed to assist workers with disabilities to secure employment with local companies, will be…

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…