New Hampshire Business Review - February 24 2012

Foss Manufacturing, the Hampton-based manufacturer that emerged from bankruptcy in 2006, plans to add another 40 to 45 workers with the help of a $1.6 million refinancing deal using federal money via the New Hampshire Business Finance Authority and the…

ACS State Health Care's five-year delay in putting in place a new Medicaid contract has earned it another $9 million in work.The New Hampshire Executive Council on Wednesday voted 3-2 to extend implementation of the contract for another 15 months…

Startups in New Hampshire that could use a leg up to get their business off the ground are encouraged to get in the running for the state's largest business plan competition, which offers the winning idea $35,000 in cash and…

Isaacson Structural Steel Inc., the Berlin-based construction and supply company that was auctioned off last week for $2.4 million to several auctioneers, has a slight correction to make when asking for bankruptcy court approval.On March 1, the estate's attorney, William…

Bottomline Technologies is buying the commercial banking business of financial software giant Intuit Inc. - the company that makes Quicken and Turbo Tax -- the Portsmouth company disclosed Monday.The sale price is $20 million.Bottomline provides financial software of its own,…

A bill prohibiting state officials from planning for a state health exchange is one of the major measures affecting business that is due to come before the House this week.The bill is expected to be voted on either Wednesday or…

Despite the extra day in February this leap year, some 350 New Hampshire households and businesses filed for bankruptcy last month, which was 54 (or 13.3 percent) fewer than in February 2011 and 156 (or 30 percent) fewer than in…

To increase revenues, the New Hampshire Lottery is teaming up with the lotteries of the five other New England states to launch a new game that gives players a chance to win $1,000 a day for their entire lives.The game…

A consortium of three companies that specialize in auctioning off commercial assets agreed to buy Isaacson Structural Steel at a bankruptcy auction for $2.4 million on Wednesday. Those three companies -- Counsel RB Capital LLC, of White Plains, N.Y., Ohio-based…

The total value of future construction contracts in New Hampshire fell 37 percent in January from the same month the previous year, but activity actually rose in two construction sectors over that period.Future construction contracts totaled $82.4 million in the…