New BIA chief wants to ‘push the envelope’
To get to New Hampshire from Minnesota, you don’t have to go through Utica, N.Y. But Jim Roche believes that, in his case, it certainly helped. “I knew for me to get a position like this, I would need to…
New Hampshire Business Review - February 4 2005
Ford’s Thunderbird: Lost, found and gone again
Jay McFarland is a second-generation car dealer with two Ford dealerships, yet the first car he’s ever decided to keep is the new Thunderbird. “I’ve never kept a car before for myself personally,” McFarland said. “But this Thunderbird was different.…
Gambling proposals get mixed reviews from business
No one seems to deny that expanding state gambling operations could bring significant revenue to the state and eliminate a projected biennial deficit of anywhere from $180 million to $300 million. But there appears to be no consensus among New…
Cell tower leasing comes with risks and rewards
Today’s wireless technology creates new ways for Americans to communicate and conduct business, including transferring data through the Internet and two-way paging. Innovations in wireless communications, however, require an expansive network of infrastructure in the form of antennas and towers,…
Auto dealers Linda and Rich Lovering
Rich and Linda Lovering, owners of Lovering Volvo of Concord, Nashua and Meredith, and Lovering Mitsubishi of Concord, met while they were both accountants at the then-Sanders Associates in Nashua. After Sanders was acquired by Lockheed in the late 1980s,…
Dressing for success
There probably aren’t many places in the world where the social worker wife of a minister can turn a homemade salad dressing into a classy high-end food product that now sells in some of the finest emporiums in New England.…
