New Hampshire Business Review - May 12 2006

Pennichuck: anti-takeover costs mounting

Pennichuck Corporation’s annual costs to fend off a takeover attempt by the city of Nashua is multiplying -- literally. This year, the company expects to spend $2.3 million to $2.4 million in legal, consulting and other costs to fight Nashua’s…

Rules changing for gas-fired power plants

Lawmakers will make decisions this week and next that could deeply affect the natural gas-fired 720-megawatt Granite Ridge power plant in Londonderry and the 525-megawatt Newington Energy plant on the Seacoast, which uses the same fuel. A conference committee met…

BrandPartners posts 1Q losses

BrandPartners Group closed its first quarter ending March 31 with a significant drop in revenues. The firm said it had revenues of $11.1 million for the period, $3.5 million less than the same quarter a year ago. The Rochester-based diversified…

Environmental Power releases 1Q results

A decrease in revenue and an increase in costs and expenses contributed to an overall net loss for Environmental Power Corp. In its first-quarter 2006 report, Portsmouth-based Environmental Power officials announced a net loss of $1.4 million, which translates into…

Rock of Ages losses grow

Rock of Ages released its first-quarter 2006 financials, reporting a net loss of a little more than $7 million, slightly greater than first-quarter losses in 2005. Loss per diluted share remained about the same, with a 95-cent loss per share…

Providers face Part D headaches too

With the May 15 open enrollment deadline arriving today for the Medicare Part D prescription program, the process has proven to be fraught with headaches not only for patients, but for health-care providers as well. More than 40 different Medicare…