When Nancy Holdsworth, a mother of a 2-year-old, got too tired during her pregnancy, she laid down on a couch for an afternoon nap. Holdsworth’s craving for a snooze was nothing unusual, except she was nodding off at the office…
In early spring, AARP launched the AARP Workforce Assessment Tool, an online survey designed to aid businesses in pursuing a proactive approach to addressing possible workforce issues posed by the growing number of employees nearing retirement age. To date, more…
When the Southwest-based company that bought what is now WZMY TV-50 in Derry first looked at videos of the telecasts, they paused over the station’s lone meteorologist and his peculiar bouncing, squealing and hopping about in front of the weather…
Like most would-be entrepreneurs, Andrew Dixon did some self-exploration before deciding on starting his own company. He, with the help of his family, thought about the things he enjoyed - visiting with people, spending time on the road and working…
In the first program of its kind in New England, young professionals from the greater Nashua area will be teaming up with local businesses to assist them in attracting potential employees. The Nashua IUGO young professionals networking organization will be…
Changes in New Hampshire’s workforce have employers in the state looking toward workers age 50 and over to fill positions in a variety of different industries. But just as the success of any sales campaign depends on effectively targeting the…
For more than a dozen years, listeners to New Hampshire Public Radio’s “The Exchange” have been greeted by the silky voice and provocative questions of Laura Knoy.The program, which brings the outside world in to the Granite State, made its…
Robert John “BJ” Hickman went into radio following his graduation from Keene State College in 1975, working his way from nighttime disc jockey to general sales manager at WTSN in Dover. But for the past dozen or so years, the…
With baby boomers approaching traditional retirement age and the changing demographics of New Hampshire’s workforce, the question of how best to recruit and retain skilled workers is now shared by business owners and employers throughout the state. Recent research conducted…
You’ve seen her smiling face from Stockholm to South Beach, but you may not know that Samantha Brown, host of the Emmy Award-winning Travel Channel series, “Passport to Europe,” calls New Hampshire home. NHBR caught up with the globe-trotting Granite…
Now rather actively semi-retired, Rye resident Christos Papoutsy was the founder of Hollis Engineering in Nashua and later purchased the electronics division of Cooper Industries. He has written and lectured on the subject of business ethics and is author of…
After getting its start in a private home in the village of North Branch in Antrim and spending 40 years in Henniker, North Branch Construction Inc. now calls a bright 16,500-square-foot facility on Old Turnpike Road in Concord home. The…
Concerns over an aging New Hampshire workforce are not new. The findings of a 2005 AARP New Hampshire Workforce Study indicated more than 60 percent of New Hampshire employers believed they would be faced with a shortage of qualified workers…
A former state representative from Orford and Democratic candidate for governor and U.S. House, Arnie Arnesen has pitched her left-of-center politics and candid opinions on radio in New Hampshire and elsewhere for 20 years. From the makeshift studio in her…
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…
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.…
