New Hampshire Business Review - March 30 2007

The state House of Representatives - despite objections from groups saying that it would be hurting small businesses and other taxpayers - voted on Wednesday to increase a number of taxes and fees in order to balance the budget. Among…

Thomas Palazzi, president of Hooksett-based The Palazzi Corporation, has been selected as the winner of the 11th annual New Hampshire Construction Industry Ethics Award. The award, which honors the “individual, business or organization that, through its words and deeds, best…

StockerYale wants the handful of investors who own a majority the company’s stock to approve the company reincorporating in Delaware as well as increase the salaries of its top officers, the company said in a preliminary proxy statement filed Tuesday.…

The Business and Industry Association of New Hampshire has thrown its support behind Governor Lynch’s proposed education-funding constitutional amendment Saying it believes the amendment - CACR 18 -- is the best way to support quality education, enable the state to…

International development expert Jonathan Dolan will present a program entitled, “Microlending and Macro-Vision: Working Small for Big Change,” at Rivier College in Nashua. Dolan will discuss his work with the Small Enterprise Education and Promotion Network, or SEEP, an international…

Paul Meister, chairman of Thermo Fisher Scientific, will not stand for re-election at the company’s May 15 annual meeting, the firm announced late Tuesday. The terms of Meister’s retirement package has not yet been released, but if the one in…