New Hampshire Business Review - June-23 2017

June 23, 2017

Tech Tidbits From Across New Hampshire

NH Business Review Staff,

Worthen Industries completes 80,000-square-foot rooftop solar panel array, Sen. Ayotte joins Cirtronic's board of advisors ... and more

Collaboration drives progress in ed-tech space says Boston startup

Liisa Rajala,

Unruly Studios founder tells TechWomen to utilize connections, resources to succeed

New Hampshire’s labor shortage unabated

Bob Sanders,

Pay hikes are minuscule as unemployment remains below 3 percent

NH April home prices up 6.7 percent from a year ago

Jeff Feingold,

Prices jumped 7.9 percent in Manchester-Nashua

Wellington added to Capital Regional Development Council staff

NH Business Review Staff,

Former Grafton Regional Development Corp. CEO to focus on Claremont, Newport, Franklin

Rochester forum takes aim at housing-jobs link

NH Business Review Staff,

Event to probe how availability affects economic development

Bensonwood’s Unity Homes to move to Keene

NH Business Review Staff,

North Branch begins renovation work at 104,000-square-foot manufacturing plant

People and Property: NH Real Estate and Construction News Roundup

NH Business Review Staff,

Londonderry real estate firm joins Masiello Group … and more

Ruger issues recall of new Mark IV pistol

Bob Sanders,

Company launches voluntary recall all guns made before June 1

Tech Tidbits From Around New Hampshire

NH Business Review Staff,

Orchard Systems wins Dartmouth Entrepreneurial Forum Competition, Future in Sight receives grant to expand technology to visually impaired children ... and more

More news from NHBR:

Gas prices cause NH economic indigestion

New Hampshire is feeling some economic indigestion at the start of the summer season, and the main culprit is gas. Six in 10 (61%) of respondents to a new University of New Hampshire polls are worried about the current and future price of gas, and a clear majority put the blame on President Donald Trump.

Private equity firm agrees to acquire a majority stake in Velcro Companies

Arsenal Capital Partners has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Velcro Companies from the Cripps Foundation, which owns the privately held British company, a longtime New Hampshire employer. Under the deal announced May 26, the Cripps Foundation will continue as a minority shareholder of the company, which opened its manufacturing center in Manchester nearly 70 years ago.