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UNH panel: women entrepreneurs

"Women in an Entrepreneurial Environment," a panel discussion featuring three businesswomen sharing their experiences as entrepreneurs will be presented next Friday at the University of New Hampshire in Durham. To be held from 10 a.m. to noon, Friday, Nov. 4,…

NHBR salutes business excellence

Small businesses in 13 industries across the state were honored Oct. 12 at the third annual New Hampshire Business Review Business Excellence Awards. The awards ceremony - held at The Event Center at C.R. Sparks in Bedford - was attended…

New Hampshire to lose a Macy’s

There will be one less Macy’s department store in New Hampshire. Company officials announced Oct. 25 that the Macy’s store at the Rockingham Park Mall in Salem is among the six stores across the nation identified for divestiture as a…

BIA sets legislative agenda for ’06

Health-care and energy costs, workforce housing, economic growth and environmental regulations will be among the issues atop the agenda of the Business & Industry Association of New Hampshire during the 2006 legislative session. Selection of the issues came about after…

Electric Co-op continues restructuring

The New Hampshire Electric Cooperative taken another step in plans to realign its divisional operating structure. The latest move involves creation of a new Member Solution Division, a merger of the former Public & Member Relations and Energy Solutions units.…

PC Connection acquires Amherst Tech assets

PC Connection of Merrimack has acquired the assets of Manchester-based information technology firm Amherst Technologies LLC for $7.75 million. The deal includes all customer relationships and related intangibles, intellectual property, and furniture, fixtures and equipment for $7,751,000. "The purchase of…

Bentley Kinetics receives VC funding

From improving that golf swing to repairing an old sports injury, a Manchester- based biokinetics company is one step closer to completing the development of new technology that will benefit athletic trainers, rehabilitation professionals and their clients since receiving Series…

Bottomline execs get hefty raises

Bottomline Technologies Inc.’s top two executives received nearly 30 percent more in total compensation in fiscal year 2005 from the previous year, according to a proxy statement filed Oct. 20 with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Portsmouth company, which…

TD Banknorth 3Q profit falls 9 percent

TD Banknorth, owner of the former Bank of New Hampshire, reported on Monday that its quarterly profit fell 9 percent, in part reflecting costs related to a majority stake in the New England banking company by Canada's Toronto-Dominion Bank. Net…

Centrix tops $250m in assets

Centrix tops $250m in assets Centrix Bank official opened its permanent full-service branch in Portsmouth on Monday ) with some pretty good news: The bank announced last week that it reached a quarter of a billion dollars in assets. That’s…