New Hampshire Business Review - January 20 2006

Irving buys Johnson & Dix assets

Irving Oil has completed its purchase of Lebanon-based Johnson & Dix Fuel Corporation.’s heating oil and propane business and seven of its convenience retail stores in New Hampshire and Vermont, the companies announced Wednesday. The transaction includes Johnson & Dix’s…

Bottomline completes UK acquisition

Bottomline Technologies, a Portsmouth-based provider of payments and invoice automation software and services, has completed its acquisition of UK-based Tranmit Plc, a provider of Web-based purchase-to-pay automation solutions. The addition of Tranmit’s invoice management capabilities enhances the company’s ability “to…

Testimony points to Enterasys deals

Jerry Shanahan, Enterasys Networks’ former chief operating officer, asked Robert Barber, the former senior vice president of business development at Cabletron Systems, to close a deal before the quarter ended in order to inflate the Enterasys’ revenue, according to Barber’s…

$2.5m headed for N.H. in Ameriquest deal

If you took out a mortgage from Ameriquest Mortgage Company during the past six years, you may be entitled to a piece of a $325 million national settlement over the sub-prime lender’s alleged predatory lending practices. The settlement was announced…

HP sues two N.H. resellers

Hewlett-Packard is suing two small New Hampshire high-tech resellers, charging that they are selling products with the HP trademark that were actually not made by Hewlett-Packard. The suits, filed Jan. 6 in federal district court in Concord, named Netria Corp.…

Lynch, Leavitt to meet on avian flu

Gov. John Lynch and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt will discuss state and national efforts to prepare ior a possible avian flu pandemic with health-care professionals, community and business leaders, and state officials next week in…