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…
Tim Murray of Hopkinton, chief executive officer of USI New England, has been elected chairman of the board of Easter Seals New Hampshire. The association also has announced the election of new board members. They are: Cathy Burnham Martin of…
Cathleen A. Schmidt, currently executive vice president and director of retail banking of Citizens Bank of Massachusetts, will be taking over next month as president and chief executive officer of Citizens Bank New Hampshire. Schmidt will replace Thomas M. Metzger,…
State employment offices in Littleton, Lebanon, Keene and Salem might close if the state Legislature doesn’t give the Department of Employment Security more money, according to Commissioner Richard Brothers. But Brothers told NHBR Daily that the closures will not be…
More than $395,000 has been raised to meet a federal matching grant to restore and upgrade the historic The Music Hall in Portsmouth. The federal grant was awarded to the 127-year-old theater by the Save America’s Treasures program, sponsored by…
The Small Business Administration says it has increased its dollar-based small-business size standards to account for inflation, restoring small-business eligibility to those firms that may have lost their small business status because of inflation since February 2002. The agency has…
