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New Hampshire Insurance Commissioner Roger Sevigny has been elected secretary-treasurer of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners - the first time in nearly 50 years that the Granite State's commissioner has served as an elected official of the organization. Sevigny…

Markem Corporation of Keene has agreed to sell its Dimatix subsidiary to Fuji Photo Film of Japan. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based Dimatix is a provider of piezoelectric ink jet printheads and fluid dispensing micropumps. The deal is expected to close…

Record rains for the months of May and June have affected boat sales and services throughout New Hampshire. How and by how much may vary from business to business, yet marine owners concur that dryer weather and sunnier skies will…

A bill that guarantees pay and benefits for state employees called to active duty in the National Guard or Reserve was signed into law by Gov. John Lynch on Tuesday. The bill puts into law an executive order Lynch issued…

Environmental Power Corporation’s wholly owned subsidiary Microgy has agreed to develop a renewable natural gas production facility in Dublin, Texas. The Rio Leche facility will be the third such project developed by Microgy in Texas. The Microgy facilities use anaerobic…

Stephen Foss, the former chairman and chief executive officer of Foss Manufacturing Company, looted the Hampton-based firm of million of dollars while it was going broke and concealed the company’s insolvency from its creditors, charges the Official Committee of Unsecured…

CB Richard Ellis/New England will host a Commercial Real Estate and Economic Outlook Conference Wednesday June 14 at the Center of New Hampshire Radisson Hotel in Manchester. The event will be held from 7:30 to 9 a.m. George Bald, commissioner…

When most people think of the slave trade in America, they might think of states in the South. Many would be surprised to learn that New Hampshire was a major slave trade center during the Colonial era. This information and…

“Jack is back,” was all that was written on the second page of the brochure for the June 9 White Mountains Insurance’s annual meeting. And no one needed to be told the smiling executive in the photo was Jack Byrne,…

The Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce will honor Robert A. Cruess, president of the Bedford-based engineering firm Thomas F. Moran., at the 2006 Small Business Person of the Year Award Breakfast Forum, to be held June 21 at the Event…