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Paul A. Perrault, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Chittenden Corporation, parent company of Ocean National Bank, received $1.6 million in compensation last year, according to the annual proxy filed last week with the Securities and Exchange Commission. More…

Wellpoint, parent company of Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Hampshire, has been named for the seventh consecutive year to the list of top 30 companies for executive women by the National Association for Female Executives. “We are…

Governor John Lynch, Berlin Mayor Bob Danderson and other state and local officials worked much of Wednesday mustering an emergency response for 252 workers who will lose their jobs May 6 when Fraser Papers shuts down its pulp mill in…

Fisher Scientific International is thinking of getting rid of its laboratory workstation business, one of its older lines, according to a Tuesday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Hampton-based company’s board of directors authorized management to evaluate strategic…

Fraser Papers, the Canada-based multinational paper firm, announced Tuesday afternoon it will close its pulp mill in Berlin on May 6, throwing 250 employees out of work. Under union seniority rules, many of those people can “bump” workers at the…

As avian influenza continues to spread across Europe and Africa, the federal Department of Health and Human Services has approved development of a new vaccine against the deadly disease. While the United States has several million doses of the vaccine…

On the day that was supposed to mark the start of the federal trial in Concord of five Enterasys Networks executives on charges of securities fraud, it was the prosecution that was on trial. A lawyer for the defense grilled…

New research by the William Rosenberg International Center of Franchising at the University of New Hampshire indicates franchisors worldwide, and particularly those in the United States, are poised to take advantage of the increasingly dynamic European Union market. The new…

Sea View Technologies of Exeter has announced the acquisition of Portsmouth-based Granite Coast Technologies. Granite Coast -- a firm that offers end-of-life inventory excess and shortage solutions for companies in the computer and electronics manufacturing industries -- will become a…

Should the state stop giving the hospitality industry a piece of the rooms and meals action? House Bill 1329 - scheduled for a in the New Hampshire House on Wednesday -- would cap at $100 a month the commission that…