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…
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…
