New Hampshire Business Review - November 25 2005

Construction Institute launched in N.H.

The Construction Institute of New Hampshire, offering educational programs to people in the construction industry, has been launched by the Home Builders & Remodelers Association of New Hampshire. The institute will oversee the HBRANH’s education programs and will include courses…

Retailer of Year nominations sought

Nominations for the Retail Merchants Association of New Hampshire’s annual Retailer of the Year Award are being sought by the organization. The award, along with a Legislator of the Year Award, will be presented at the association’s 40th annual Member…

N.H. exec at center of competition suit

Hutchinson Sealing Systems, a French-owned firm with a plant in Newfields, is being sued in federal court for allegedly hiring a competitor’s top technical manager as the deputy manager at its New Hampshire facility in order to get the trade…

Curative director steps down

One of the directors of Nashua-based Curative Health Services has stepped down from the company’s board. On Nov. 21 Peter M. DeComo, co-founder of Renal Solutions Inc., a hemodialysis solutions provider based in Pittsburgh, Pa., announced he would leave Curative’s…

N.H. still setting economic pace

The strongest economy among the six New England states is expected once again to be New Hampshire’s, according to a University of New Hampshire economist. Ross Gittell, James R. Carter Professor at the Whittemore School of Business and Economics, earlier…

Heat is turned up on StockerYale

Investors suing StockerYale Inc. say that they can produce a witness who will testify that executives distributed a misleading press release, even after being warned that it might be inaccurate. As a result of the April 2004 press release, the…