New Hampshire Business Review - July 7 2006

BIA launches business PAC

The Business & Industry Association of New Hampshire has taken steps that it says will increase businesses' participation in the state’s political process by launching the New Hampshire Business Political Action Committee. While the BIA said the new PAC will…

CDFA chief resigns

Paul Denton, executive director of the Community Development Finance Authority, has resigned from his post, the agency announced yesterday. The brief press release said Denton - who has served in the post for some 18 months -- decided to leave…

N.H. gets $1.3m for pandemic planning

New Hampshire has received over $1 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to help with preparations against an influenza pandemic. The funds will help the state Department of Health and Human Services continue its ongoing plans…

Bodi named president of ad firm

Mark Bodi, a longtime principal in the advertising agency Griffin Bodi & Krause, has been named president of the Manchester-based firm and Travis C. York, an executive with the firm for the past year, has been promoted to executive vice…

Romney agrees to flood $$$ arbitration

Governor John Lynch announced yesterday that Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has committed to appointing an arbiter to resolve the differences between the two states over the Merrimack River Valley Flood Control Compact. Earlier this week, Massachusetts sent New Hampshire $600,000…

StockerYale stock deal nets $4m

StockerYale has all but given away more than 642,857 shares of stock to obtain $4 million in revolving credit over the next three years. The Salem-based provider of photonics-based products revealed last week in a filing with the Securities and…

Timberland puts its best foot forward

Efforts by The Timberland Company to create footwear for the hard-to-fit population has earned the Stratham-based company the 2006 Industrial Design Excellence Award (IDEA award) for its new Timberland PreciseFit system, which will debut next month. The award, sponsored by…