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Cabletron Systems co-founder Craig Benson, along with officials of Enterasys Networks, repeatedly complained about — and threatened to replace — accountants who were looking into the company’s accounting practices, according to documents filed in the upcoming trial of former Enterasys…

White Mountains Insurance Group executives were well rewarded for the company’s performance over the last two years, according to a filing submitted by the firm Tuesday with the Securities Exchange Commission. The board of directors’ compensation committee awarded top executives…

New Hampshire is ranked as one of the most business-friendly states for taxes, according to a study by a nonprofit tax foundation. The Tax Foundation, a nonpartisan educational forum based in Washington, D.C., ranked each state in the country on…

Environmental Power Corporation and its subsidiary, Microgy, have contracted to construct and operate a second multi-digester biogas production and gas conditioning in Texas. The Portsmouth-based firm said the new facility, to be located at Mission Dairy near Hereford, Texas, is…

Rock of Ages Corporation reported being on slightly more solid ground for the fourth quarter compared to a year ago, but total year earnings continued to slip as the Concord-based granite quarrier and monument manufacturer chips away at losses it…

Enterasys Networks is no longer a public company. A group of private investors Wednesday afternoon completed the previously announced purchase of the firm for $13.92 a share, about an eighth of the stock’s value at the time of its spinoff…

Bentley Pharmaceuticals announced Monday that its European subsidiaries have received a dozen approvals to market a number of generic drugs used to combat depression, cholesterol and enlarged prostate glands. The Exeter-based firm said its approval to market Citalopram, the generic…

The University of New Hampshire’s 2006 Iddles Lecture will feature an alumnus who leads Pfizer’s worldwide drug research efforts. John L. LaMattina, who earned a Ph.D. in chemistry from UNH in 1975, is now a senior vice president at Pfizer…

White Mountains Insurance Group has declared a $2 quarterly dividend payable in cash on March 2 for holders of record as of March 13. In addition, the Bermuda-based company - whose U.S. headquarters is in Hanover - announced that Frank…

The University of New Hampshire and Dartmouth College have each received Geospace Science Program grants from NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. Maximum grant value for UNH is $169,788, while Dartmouth’s is $399,512, according to NASA. Both were awarded in recognition of…