New Hampshire Business Review - June 17 2011

New Hampshire Bankers Association President Gerry Little will step down from the job at the end of the year, ending more than two decades as the New Hampshire industry's point man."I began thinking about want I want to do for…

U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., has announced plans to lead a delegation of New Hampshire businesses on a trade mission to India in September.A member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Shaheen said she will be coordinating her trip with…

A power outage during the evening of June 25 was caused by the theft of copper cables from the grounds of the Bridgewater substation owned by New Hampshire Electric Cooperative, the utility said.The cooperative said it was alerted to the…

The yearlong court battle for Milford-Bennington Railroad's owner Rep. Peter Leishman to get back on the Pan Am track might finally be pulling into a key station, though it is by no means at the end of the line.A federal…

U.S. District Court Judge Steven J. McAuliffe last Friday approved settlement terms involving four former top executives with the former Cabletron Systems, who had faced civil fraud charges, allowing them to pay less than a million dollars for their involvement…

New Hampshire collects the sixth largest amount of excise taxes per capita among the 50 states, according to a newly released white paper.In "Excise Taxes in the States," researchers Thomas Stratmann and William Bruntrager of the Mercatus Center at George…

GT Solar International Inc., which recently expanded its facility in Salem, Mass., is planning to expand its headquarters in Merrimack, N.H., as well.The maker of equipment and materials for the manufacture of solar cells LED lights, told NHBR Tuesday that…

An investor in the bankrupt USA Springs will front the $1.2 million needed to close a $60 million, five-year loan underwritten by a Swiss company that will enable the company to complete its controversial water bottling plant in Nottingham, according…

Employment in southern New Hampshire won't return to its pre-recession peak until the latter part of 2014, according to a recently released report.The report, prepared by IHS Global Insight for the U.S. Conference of Mayors, examined the economies of more…

State tourism officials expect a 3 percent increase in tourist spending this summer, resulting in an estimated total of $1.68 billion spent by visitors to New Hampshire.Officials of the state Division of Travel and Tourism Development said they expect some…