John Dumais was looking forward to a career as a pharmacist when his father’s heart attack prompted him to leave the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy to help run the family grocery store in Franklin, N.H. He eventually sold the store…

With this issue, New Hampshire Business Review, in partnership with AARP New Hampshire, begins a regular series focusing on an issue that is - or at least should be - of increasing concern to the state’s businesses: employing older workers.…

Not much more than a Manchester side road, West Brook Street runs perpendicular to Canal Street and Elm Street, connecting the city’s mill and business districts. For the most part, the red brick structures on West Brook Street are nondescript…

Lisa Michaud’s preparation for dealing with disaster has included a decades-long marriage and the rearing of three children. She has been employed in a number of capacities, including a stint as a cook at the rectory of Saint Marie parish…

John Gillespie was one of the most poorly compensated members to serve on the board of White Mountains Insurance. In 2007, the insurance conglomerate - which is officially based in Bermuda but has its corporate offices in Hanover, N.H. —…

It was a propensity for identifying promising business opportunities that led Karl Norwood to leave his milk delivery business behind in pursuit of a career in real estate 40 years ago. It’s that same propensity, along with unwavering optimism, that…

After three months as executive director of the Women’s Business Center in Portsmouth, Sharon Drake believes her role is clear — to build on the existing framework of the nonprofit organization, which for 12 years has been dedicated to helping…

Jerry Little has been president of the New Hampshire Bankers Association since October 1991, the same month and year the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. shut down New Hampshire’s five largest banks and brought the financial world of New Hampshire to…

One of the most formative experiences in Matt Pierson’s life was participating in the Semester at Sea program, now sponsored by the University of Virginia, at the end of his undergraduate work at the University of Rhode Island in 1983.…

Starting a company is hard enough, but when you have financial pressures, industry crashes and youth all working against you, it can seem downright impossible to succeed. Nick Soggu overcame all of those obstacles to build his SilverTech interactive Web…

Shorty’s Mexican Roadhouse founder Rick Loeffler has been owner or part-owner of several New Hampshire restaurants over the past 30 years, including the former Daffodils in Bedford and the former Heaven and Rancho Loco in Manchester. He opened seven Shorty’s…

Growing up in the Depression, “you were lucky if you had one pair of pants,” says George Angelopoulos. Today he has 3,500 to 4,000 suits in the downtown Manchester store he calls home. The owner of George’s Apparel (formerly George’s…

Skiers, boarders and ski industry leaders alike all reveled in the Dec. 3 storm that blanketed New Hampshire’s ski country. To most, the snow event proved a promising start to the 2007 ski season. To John DeVivo, the snowfall also…