Former Manchester Mayor Robert A. Baines was named Citizen of the Year by the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce last month at an annual dinner that celebrated the diversity of residents in the state’s largest city. Citizens of the Year…
Foreign sales of goods made in New Hampshire increased in December, in line with national exports that climbed to an all-time high. According to the international trade snapshot at the tail end of 2005, overseas shipments from New Hampshire’s exporters…
For Tim Ostendorf, there’s nothing like a good hot bowl of steaming Swamp Soup to nourish an appetite for the great outdoors. “It’s kind of like a cream of spinach,” he explained after downing a bowl of it. “It was…
Not-so-great expectations When President Bush came to town a couple of weeks ago, besides telling a rather circumspect Business & Industry Association crowd about the overall health of the U.S economy, he was eager to tell them about a new…
Londonderry-based yogurt maker Stonyfield Farm and the School of Community Economic Development at Southern New Hampshire University will again team up to present the Stonyfield Farm Entrepreneurship Institute March 30-31 at SNHU in Manchester. New Hampshire Business Review is helping…
A New Hampshire House subcommittee has approved a pair of bills that will limit how much and from where construction and demolition debris is disposed of in the state. A subcommittee of the Environment and Agriculture Committee amended House Bill…
A single room at the Keene headquarters of C&S Wholesale Grocers offers insight into the impressive success of a company that began 88 years ago in a small Worcester, Mass., warehouse and has since grown into the second-largest wholesale grocery…
Health system struggles while insurers profit To the editor: The recent column in your publication about affordable health care has as its author one of the most highly compensated CEOs in health care (“It’s time to work together for affordable…
I was hoping to have a snow day so I would write this column in peace and quiet in front of the fire. Not this winter! In fact, personally I was hoping for heavy winters while my big, strong teenage…
As commissioner of the Department of Resources and Economic Development since May 2004, Sean O’Kane presides over 250 full-time employees in the department’s four divisions — Economic Development, Travel and Tourism Development, Forests and Lands and Parks and Recreation. A…
