New Hampshire Business Review - January 21 2005

Lakes Region Greyhound Park general partner Allan E. Hart was deeply involved in establishing the gambling operation that federal authorities cited in their recent indictment of the track’s general manager and assistant general manager, according to testimony and documents filed…

‘Six Feet’ close-up You wouldn’t think that a headstone company would need marketing brochures - they are guaranteed customers - but Rock of Ages has great ones. So good in fact, the producers of the Emmy award-winning HBO series “Six…

Keene: Whatman PLC, the London-based owner of biotechnology firm Schleicher & Schuell, is closing the Keene company’s doors, eliminating or moving its 76 high-tech jobs after 52 years in Keene. Whatman, which bought Schleicher & Schuell Dec. 1, said it…

John Lynch was sworn in as governor on a snowy Thursday, Jan. 6. Taking the oath before a full House chamber and an audience on television, he set a positive and cooperative tone, emphasizing the need to solve the state’s…

Much has happened in the 37 years since Kenwood Jones Sr. opened the doors to Ken Jones Ski Shop, then on Amherst Street in Nashua. But through the change of hands, name changes and relocations there have been some constants…

To the editor: Thomas Thomson’s guest editorial touts the “positive partnership” with private landowners that makes New Hampshire’s $1.2 billion snowmobile industry possible (“Private landowners a key link in N.H.’s economy,” Jan. 7-20 New Hampshire Business Review). Private landowners allow…

Anyone see a pattern here? Consider the following: • The state’s one-term Gov. Craig Benson is ejected from office for consistent and arrogant disregard for the notion of ethics, after an unprecedented and sickening tsunami of cash that got him…

It’s a sad commentary on our time that the subject of workers’ rights has receded so far from public view. In the last election cycle, both locally and nationally, the rights of workers were a non-issue. The implicit message: Workers…

The Legislature is back in town, and already the New Hampshire High Technology Council and the business community at large is taking an extremely close look at the projected $300 million state budget deficit and its implications for business taxes…

Q. I’m reading more and more about the importance of having a good “business model.” I’m in the process of adding a new product line, and I’m not sure what “model” I should be shooting for. How can I determine…