New Hampshire Business Review - October 9 2009
2009 NHBR Business Excellence Hall of Fame Inductees
Each year NHBR selects individuals for its Business Excellence Hall of Fame that have given a lifetime of service to the business community, the state of New Hampshire, and even beyond. Jack Middleton of McLane Graf Raulerson & Middleton Jack…
2009 NHBR Business Excellence Award Winner Profiles
Fourteen businesspeople in 13 different industries and two Business Excellence Hall of Fame inductees were honored Wednesday night at the seventh annual NHBR Business Excellence Awards, held Oct. 7, 2009, at The Event Center at C.R. Sparks in Bedford. Competition…
N.H. exports continue to gain ground
Following a year of falling sales abroad, New Hampshire's exporters can now see the first signs of recovery. With an economic revival abroad, buyers have more income to spend for goods in general and goods made-in-New Hampshire in particular. This…
Assessing the North Country's business climate
NHBR's editors recently met at the Mount Washington Resort in Bretton Woods with businesspeople from around the North Country to get their take on how the region's economy is faring during the recession, and what their expectations are for the…
NHBR Network: new online forum for businesses
NHBR Network, a new online business-to-business networking site, has been launched by NHBR as a forum where the state's businesspeople can share resources, information, ideas, opinions -- anything that businesses can use to keep up to date and competitive. Modeled…
Cleaning up on clean energy?
New Hampshire households would save an average of $377 per year and 2,900 sustainable jobs would be created in the state over the next 10 years if Congress includes strong energy-efficiency improvements in energy and climate legislation, according to a…
Divergent views from Sununu and Buckley
The chairs of the state Democratic and Republican parties recently addressed business leaders on the New Hampshire economy, government and politics. What Republican John H. Sununu and Democrat Raymond Buckley said painted very different pictures of the state and its…
N.H.'s Change Workforce: Taking the opportunity to reinvent yourself
After a series of layoffs at a Boston area high-tech company left Dave Bastien without a job after 25 years in the industry he, like many displaced workers, decided to launch his own company. So, armed with a solid business…
Q&A with: Revenue Commissioner Kevin Clougherty
Kevin A. Clougherty knows numbers. He has encountered budget numbers, audit numbers and revenue numbers during three decades as a corporate executive, public servant and educator. But even Clougherty, the longtime finance director for the city of Manchester, hadn't faced…
