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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…

Renewed commitment to the preservation of New Hampshire’s historic places have reawakened the beauty and viability of landmarks around the state, from the Colony House in Keene to Portsmouth’s Cottage Hospital to the First United Methodist Church in Littleton. Each…

The outgoing executive chairman of Enterasys Networks won’t have to testify at the pretrial hearing of the company’s former executives for securities fraud after all. Defense attorneys have dropped their subpoena of William K. O’Brien in a pretrial hearing scheduled…

The archdiocese of San Salvador is suing a Seacoast finance company, and a supposedly related used car dealership and repair shop, for allegedly scamming it out of $1 million. The suit alleges in that in 2002 FM International LLC as…