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The New Year will ring in an Internal Revenue Service adjustment to the optional standard mileage rate used to calculate the deductible cost of operating an automobile for business purposes. The new 2006 rate has been set at 44.5 cents…

Nominations are currently being accepted for the Exeter Area Chamber of Commerce’s Business of the Year Awards, to be presented at a luncheon in March. Award categories are: manufacturing/technology, education/non-profits, retail/wholesale, real estate/construction/engineering, health care, financial services/insurance, business services and…

American Skiing Company, owner of Attitash Ski Resort in Bartlett and seven other resorts in Vermont, Maine, Colorado and Utah, reported a net loss of $42.2 million, or $1.33 per basic and diluted common share, for the first quarter of…

Myron Kandel, a print and broadcast journalist with more than 50 years of experience, has been picked to head a first-in-the nation initiative designed to shed light on the issues of corporate governance and investor protection. Kandel - for 25…

Plans of a Michigan-based automotive parts manufacturer to close a tooling fabrication facility and transfer equipment to its New Hampshire facilities will not necessarily bring jobs to the Granite State, they will allow the employees of its New Hampshire operation…

Both sides in a class-action suit against Tyco International have reached an agreement over the issue of "document dumping," which has held up the three-year-old case. The suit - filed in U.S. District Court in Concord in 2002 --- has…

Joan LaPlante, state director and lobbyist for the New Hampshire chapter of the National Federation of Independent Business, for more than two decades, will be stepping down from that role on Jan. 1. She will be succeeded by longtime Concord…

Banishing the Gardeners’ Eden product line still left Merrimack-based lifestyle retailer Brookstone’s revenues in limbo, reporting $76.7 million in net sales, a 7.3 percent decrease for the third quarter of 2005 ended Oct. 29. It was the last revenue report…

GT Equipment Technologies, a Merrimack-based developer of solar photovoltaic power sources, has received a record order for 100 specialized silicon growth furnaces from LDK Solar Hi-Tech Co. of Jiangxi, China. The deal brings GT Equipment’s business in China to more…

Lebanon-based GlycoFi has established a strategic alliance and multi-year research collaboration with Merck & Co. Inc., the pharmaceutical giant, that will focus on he use of GlycoFi's yeast-based glycoprotein optimization platform to develop biologic and vaccine drug candidates. The companies…