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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,…

The U.S. Small Business Administration will be closing its disaster loan centers in New Hampshire on Thursday. The centers will be open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. through Thursday. After Thursday, disaster loan assistance applications may be obtained by…

The Portsmouth-based Pax World Funds wants shareholders to agree to move away from the mutual funds' 35-year-old “fundamental” restrictions in social investment policies, opting for more “flexibility” and a wider range of social criteria. If the proxy sent out last…

Lobbyist and longtime elected and appointed state official William Bartlett of Kingston, most recently chairman of the Pease Development Authority, has been named interim president of the New Hampshire Community Technical College at Stratham/Pease while a search is conducted to…

Citizens Financial Group reported a 4 percent increase in earnings for the first half of 2006. The Providence, R.I.-based company, parent of Citizens Bank, had net income for the six months of $1.45 billion -4 percent higher than earnings in…