New Hampshire Business Review - June 3 2011

When it comes to the state of its infrastructure, New Hampshire is neither failing nor flying high, earning an overall grade of "C" in a report issued by a local chapter of civil engineers.Released by the New Hampshire Section of…

The legislative conference committee negotiating a budget deal adopted a last-minute amendment Wednesday requiring that the state Department of Information Technology and the Department of Health and Human Services hire a consultant to look into implementation of the state's long-delayed…

The parent company of Thermal Dynamics in West Lebanon will be shifting some 100 jobs from New Hampshire to locations in Texas and Mexico.St. Louis-based Thermadyne Holdings Corp. announced Tuesday it will be transferring its manufacturing and plasma cutting operations…

Leslie Ludtke, the New Hampshire Insurance Department's key health-care policy analyst, has been fired by the agency following a dispute in which she criticized the department for improperly using a competitive bidding process to achieve a politically acceptable result concerning…

Good news for pancake lovers everywhere: The 2011 maple syrup season was New Hampshire's best on record, surpassing the 100,000-gallon mark for the first time ever."It was an exceptional year all around," said Robyn Pearl, publicist for the New Hampshire…

Hanover-based plasma cutting technology manufacturer Hypertherm has announced plans to hire and train up to 16 CNC machine apprentices this summer.Working in partnership with River Valley Community College in Claremont and the federal government through the STAR program, workers accepted…

"It's a magnificent day and a bittersweet day, but the shareholders had to be our only concern," summed up Timberland Company CEO Jeffrey Swartz about Monday's $2 billion sale of the company his father founded some 25 years ago to…

Federal statistics that show New Hampshire's economy to have grown at a slower pace last year than every other state in New England are probably in error, according to at least one New Hampshire economist.The U.S. Department of Commerce earlier…

A survey by Business Insider magazine says the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in Hanover is one of the world's best graduate business schools.Tuck was ranked eighth among the world's top 50 business schools, beating out similar…

Ratings agency Moody's is giving its approval to a new series of bonds issued by the University System of New Hampshire, pointing out it thinks the system can weather the fiscal storm brought on by deep state budget cuts.Moody's assigned…