New Hampshire Business Review - September 30 2005

Officials from Keene and surrounding communities have little doubt their business communities will be greatly affected by the weekend’s drenching rains and flood waters. But it may be some time before the extent of the damage is quantified. "There are…

Lincoln National Corp. has announced plans to acquire Jefferson-Pilot Corp., whose Concord-based Jefferson Pilot Financial Insurance is one of the 60 largest private employers in the state. The Philadelphia-based Lincoln National said Monday it will acquire Jefferson-Pilot for about $7.5…

Teradyne Inc. has agreed to sell its Nashua-based Teradyne Connection Systems subsidiary to Amphenol Corp. for $390 million. The deal should be completed during the fourth quarter of this year. "We are extremely excited about Teradyne, it is a perfect…

Nashua Corp. has agreed to settle a patent infringement case brought by Oce Printing Systems GmbH. Under AN agreement announced Monday, Nashua Corp. will no longer offer or sell the toner containers in question and the lawsuit will be dismissed.…

Troubled life sciences company Curative Health Services Inc. continues to watch its stock price decline after the recent firing of a vice president. Nashua-based Curative ended Monday trading at 79 cents per share, down from its 52-week high of $7.20…

The University of New Hampshire's first spin-out company has received a $50,000 grant from the New Hampshire Industrial Research Center to develop the next generation of video compression technology. Chaoticom Technologies, the Durham-based R&D unit of Andover, Mass.-based Groove Mobile,…

GN Netcom of Nashua announced Tuesday that it has filled two key positions within the company with leaders from the sound and electronics industries. David Wood will join GN Netcom as senior vice president and general manager for the company’s…

David Rubin, Israel’s former economic minister to North America, will be the guest speaker Oct. 20 at a business briefing organized by the International Trade Resource Center at the Pease International Tradeport. Rubin will speak about business opportunities in Israel,…

The New Hampshire Land and Community Heritage Investment Program announced has announced plans to develop and maintain the state’s first inventory of conservation land and properties. The New Hampshire Land and Community Heritage Register currently lists 104 historic sites and…

Tyco International Ltd. "dumped" more than 77 million pages of documents in the lap of plaintiffs engaged in an ongoing class action being being heard in U.S. District Court in Concord, plaintiffs are charging in a filing in the case.…