New Hampshire Business Review - September 15 2006

Touted as saving seniors on their prescription drug costs, Medicare Part D has nonetheless been panned as a confusing regulation made even more baffling by the myriad of plans offered available by insurers — over 40 plans in New Hampshire…

Bentley Pharmaceuticals obtained a key patent in its quest to develop insulin nasal spray for diabetics, the company announced Tuesday. The Exeter-based firm had obtained general patents for the nasal insulin delivery systems before, but this was the first time…

“New and News Media” is the subject of the New Hampshire Travel Council’s annual travel and tourism industry conference scheduled for November in Meredith. The annual conference, to be held Nov. 1-2 at Church Landing at Mill Falls, Meredith, draws…

Sturm, Ruger & Company has repurchased 4,272,000 shares of its common stock - almost 16 percent of the total outstanding shares -- from its largest shareholder. The purchase yesterday of the shares from Ruger Business Holdings L.P. was at a…

A new grant program to help businesses solve tough scientific or engineering problems was unveiled yesterday by the New Hampshire Industrial Research Center at the University of New Hampshire. The Granite State Technology Innovation Grant funds research partnerships between New…

More than three-quarters of New Hampshire small businesses say they feel that the Granite State economy is in the same condition or better than that in other parts of the country - even though the majority of the state’s small…

Research highlights of Citizens Bank’s Small Business Pulse Survey include: • Most small businesses (76 percent) say that the economic climate in New Hampshire is the same as or better than in other parts of the country. • However, as…

After serving three years as general manger of the Attitash Grand Summit Hotel and Conference Center at the base of Attitash resort in Bartlett, John Lowell has been named managing director of the entire resort. “Since joining Attitash, John Lowell…

The Environmental Protection Agency is suing General Electric for $9 million for contaminating a Milford Superfund site, despite the claim that the company is doing a “great job on what is necessary and sometimes more than necessary” in cleaning it…

Businesses in the health-care and medical devices fields received the most venture capital funding in the first half of 2006. According to a report released Wednesday by the University of New Hampshire’s Center for Venture Research, funding in the health-care…