New Hampshire Business Review - March 9 2012

The top five executives of VF Corp., the new owners of The Timberland Company, received $25 million in compensation in 2011, according to a proxy filed Wednesday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.The South Carolina-based retail giant bought the Stratham-based…

Donchess & Notinger, the Nashua law firm of Financial Resources Mortgage bankruptcy trustee Steve Notinger, is seeking more than $475,000 in interim fees and expenses for the last half year.That would bring the firm's total payment thus far -- including…

Gov. John Lynch and U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen are among the officials taking part in "Paths to the Future," an infrastructure summit, which will be held from 7 to 9 a.m. Friday, March 30, at The Executive Court in Manchester.The…

Hudson-based Presstek Inc. lost another $3.8 million (10 cents a diluted share) in its fourth quarter -- an improvement over the previous year's finish -- but still resulting in a $12.4 million annual loss (33 cents a share), a slightly…

Sturm Ruger & Co.'s top five executives earned compensation packages totaling $12.15 million in fiscal 2011, more than triple the amount they earned a year ago, according to the company's annual proxy.Michael O. Fifer , the company's CEO, got the…

A trading group of Constellation Energy, an independent power provider for business users in New Hampshire and other states, has agreed to pay nearly $250 million to settle charges of price manipulation. A fraction of that money could be claimed…

George Hagerty, the former president of Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, is suing his subsequent employer, St. John International University Inc. -- a school chartered in New Hampshire but located in Italy -- for not paying him as St. John's…

A Vermont-based law firm has opened a new office in Manchester and hired several attorneys from the now-shuttered Wiggin & Nourie law firm, including its president.Primmer Piper Eggleston & Cramer PC, which is headquartered in Burlington, Vt., already has had…

Research in Motion Ltd., the Canadian company famous for its BlackBerry smartphones, has purchased a Nashua-based firm that specializes in developing antennas for mobile phones.RIM announced the purchase last week of Paratek Microwave Inc., which designs and manufactures tunable radio-frequency…

Bostonpost Technologies, a Bedford firm that makes software for companies that manage affordable housing, will be shutting its doors in New Hampshire on March 23, resulting in most employees having to look for other work.MRI Software LLC bought Bostonpost from…