New Hampshire Public Radio: Business
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145 Businesses Pitch Their Products At Made In N.H. Expo
More than 10,000 people filed into the Manchester Radisson’s Expo Center this weekend to taste test, try on, and purchase products made by 145 New
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Businesswoman May Gruber Remembered As Innovative,...
One of Manchester, New Hampshire’s most celebrated business owners has died. May Gruber owned Pandora sweaters for decades; it was one of the area’s
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N.H. Benefits From Firearms Boom
As federal lawmakers grapple with tighter gun control laws, business is good for the firearms industry. Across the country, gun dealers can’t keep them on
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Nearly Half of Grocery Shopping Now Done in...
When we talk about holiday shopping we're usually referring to gifts. But as anyone who's ever hosted the family Christmas party knows, holding shopping can also mean food shopping.And this year in New Hampshire, there are more options for that kind of shopping than perhaps ever before.Kathleen Callahan reports for the New Hampshire Business Review; she recently wrote about the growing number of competition among stores that sell food. She joins All Things Considered host Brady Carlson to...
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The 10 Best NH Employers
Some employers are willing to try anything to incentivize employees to work harder and increase productivity. But what exactly are employees looking for in a job these days, aside from the pay? Business NH Magazine's annual competition identifies the top ten best New Hampshire companies to work forand what makes them so great. Matthew Mowry is editor for Business NH Magazine and he joins us to talk about who came out on top.
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Black Friday Backlash
Black Friday has long been a post-holiday shopping tradition for many Americans. During the last several years, customers have found their favorite stores opening ever-earlier in anticipation of growing demand. This time around, employees are fighting back against the early hours. Emanuella Grinberg, writer with CNN.com’s Living Section, joins us to talk about her article “Retail Employees Fight Black Friday Creep.”
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Starting A Business: The New Retirement?
More aging adults are stepping out on a limb and starting their own businesses, says a report from the Kauffman Foundation. In New Hampshire, the Small Business Association and AARP are working together to make sure these so-called “encore entrepreneurs” have the tools they need.The recession had hit by the time Joyce Goodwin finished her temporary position as director of a school in Hudson. She was 54, and couldn’t find another job. My age was prohibitive in some of the jobs that may have...
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Your TV is Talking to YOU. Yes, YOU.
Personalized, addressable ads are finally hitting our televisions. Ad Age's Brian Steinberg explains how they're doing something that seems a little too Minority Report to be true.And, some feedback about a listener about our coverage of the non-coverage of the Paralympics.Correction: During the feedback segment, we mistakenly relayed Paralympian Victoria Arlen's medal count. Arlen was awarded three silvers and a gold - not three silvers and a bronze. Our apologies, and congratulations...
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Education and Revenue Key to Dem Gov. Candidates' Job...
StateImpact's Amanda Loder discusses the economic proposals of main Democratic gubernatorial contenders Jackie Cilley and Maggie Hassan with Morning Edition host Rick Ganley.
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Tax Reform Focus of GOP Gov. Candidates' Job Plans
StateImpact's Amanda Loder discusses the economic proposals of Republican gubernatorial contenders Ovide Lamontagne and Kevin Smith with Morning Edition host Rick Ganley.
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Whatever Floats Your Flag
In most downtowns across America, there are a handful of staple successful businesses: the pizza place, the hardware store, the movie theater. Then there are the niche stores that never seem to last long, the kind that make you wonder, can someone make a living selling just that?In downtown Concord, N.H., that store might be Flagworks Over America. And as its name implies, it sells only flags.Patrick: “That’s a 48-star cotton flag that belonged to my wife’s grandfather, and it use to fly...
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The Business of Nostalgia: Contoocook Photographer...
No matter what the economy throws our way, the wedding industry churns on, now topping seventy billion dollars a year.Here'sthe story of one photographer vying for a slice of that cake by building his own version of the latest wedding trend…a “new-timey” photobooth.
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Whatever Floats your Flag
In most downtowns across America, there are a handful of staple successful businesses: the pizza place, the hardware store, the movie theater. Then there are the niche stores that never seem to last long, the kind that make you wonder, can someone make a living selling just that?In downtown Concord, N.H., that store might be Flagworks Over America. And as its name implies, it sells only flags.Patrick: “That’s a 48-star cotton flag that belonged to my wife’s grandfather, and it use to fly...
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The Skills Gap Standoff
With so many Americans out of work and so many companies claiming they cant fill vacant positions, many have blamed a so-calledskills gap. But business professor Peter Cappelli says this is just blaming the unemployed victim, and in fact, many companies are responsible for this bind. Hesays theyrerelying on automated, unreliable applicant tracking systems and refusing to train perfectly acceptable candidates. Well look at this debate.GuestsPeter Cappelli: George W. Taylor Professor of...
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After The Mills, What Will Drive the North Country...
Bleak. Troubled. Struggling. Take the phrase North Country economy, and youll almost inevitably hear one of those adjectives attached to it.And to a certain extent, its true; the northern New Hampshire economy has had a difficult run since the bottom fell out of the mill economy. But can a handful of downbeat adjectives really characterize a whole regions economy?Reporter Amanda Loder of StateImpact New Hampshire has been looking at the state of the North Country economy for her economic...
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Vacation Home Slowdown Can Hurt More Than Real Estate...
Anyone whos been in this state in late July has seen the traffic pattern the long line of cars and trucks with boats or kayaks or bikes on the back, heading north on the highway to New Hampshires Lakes Region. Some folks are heading toward campgrounds or b&bs; some others are heading toward their own vacation homes, which in the Lakes Region can be pretty substantial.So what happens when that part of the economy takes a big hit? Reporter Amanda Loder of StateImpact New Hampshire has been...
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Conscientious Consumerism?
"Socially Responsible", its a catchword used by many businesses these days whether they want to promote their environmental friendliness, political awareness or by the way they treat their employees. "We talk to the author of a new book whosays there are many issues to consider when deeming a business socially responsible, both for the consumer and for the companies themselves. In some cases, there are uncomfortable tradeoffs, its nearly impossible to fulfill every ideal. And then theres...
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Businesses with Bennies
Newslast month that trading losses at JPMorgan chase may be much larger than previously reported possibly topping nine billion dollars. The number provides ammo for advocates of more stringent financial regulations and for 99percenters, proof that corporate greed is running amokand running the system. A number of progressive, socially responsible corporations are seeking designation as b-corps or benefit corporations. Several states have already legislated incentives for B-Corps. Katie...
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Opportunities and Drawbacks for Upper Valley Startups
Every part of New Hampshire has been affected by the ups and downs of the economy, but not every region has felt the effects in the same way. Thats been especially true in New Hampshires Upper Valley when home prices were dropping and jobs were scarce, Upper Valley communities and employers managed to hold on for a while, anyway.Reporter Amanda Loder of StateImpact New Hampshire is looking at each region of the state for her economic series, Getting By, Getting Ahead. She joins All Things...
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Community Supported Agriculture Brings Farmers...
One of the buzzwords we hear around the economy these days is certainty that if we all had a better idea of what the economy was going to throw our way, wed be better able to prepare for it.
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Businesses with Bennies
News today that trading losses at JPMorgan chase may be much larger than previously reported possibly topping nine billion dollars. The number provides ammo for advocates of more stringent financial regulations and for 99percenters, proof that corporate greed is running amokand running the system. A number of progressive, socially responsible corporations are seeking designation as b-corps or benefit corporations.
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Future Of 'Bike Week' Relies On New Marketing
Once upon a time, Laconia Bike Week was a rowdy affair with a lot of drinking and wild behavior.
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Concord Nonprofit Banking on Trailer Parks
When you hear trailer park lots of people often think tornadoes, ortrailer trash.Other than that, mobile home parks are ignored, really...just invisible. But actually millions of Americans live in these communities nationwide. Where most people see little of value, the Concord-based ROC USA sees hope for the American dream.
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Boss treating you like a dog? Maybe that's not so bad...
Management consultants are often ridiculed for using words like bandwidth, capacity, and low-hanging fruit. WhenWord of Mouth noticed a consultant tweeting as@PeopleSense following our Twitter account, we thoughthmmmmnice alternative to out of the box thinking.
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A Campus of Innovation
Fast Companys annual list of the worlds 50 Most Innovative Companiesincluded many of the usual suspects:Apple, Facebook andGoogle all made the list.
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Upper Valley Business and Education Partnership
The Upper Valley Business & Education Partnership makes connections between schools and their wider communities. Tyler Mansfield and Jim Madden met through the Partnerships Everybody Wins! reading mentoring program.JIM:Ive always loved to read so it was really just sort of a natural fit to share my love of reading with the students. I guess we both discovered we kind of liked mysteries.
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Who's selling Iran the gear to spy on its own people?
Late last week, an investigative report from ReutersEnterprise Team uncovered the details of a big money contract between theChinese telecommunications equipment companyZTE and the Telecommunication Company of Iran that included technology that can be used to conduct surveillance and crack down on dissidents. The details of the deal revealed surprising end-runs being made by Iran around global sanctions.
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Major Business and City Leaders Oppose Move To Get PSNH...
A house bill that would consider giving the Public Utilities Commission authority to force PSNH to sell its power plants to open up market competition is getting vocal opposition from business leaders and mayors in the state.Berlin Mayor Paul Grenier says the move will raise electric ratesand scare businesses away from his community.
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Seniors Increasingly Target of Scams
According to the Federal Trade Commission, the number of complaints about consumer fraud against seniors has more than doubled since 2009. So called imposter scams, when someone poses as a relative or friend to extort money from someone they dont know increased by 22 percent last year.
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For Better or for Work: A Farm-Grown Idea
145,000 businesses start-up each year in theUS.Many launch in garages, home offices, or in the case of Stonyfield Farm, a drafty old farmhouse on a New Hampshire hilltop with seven cows, and a dream. Like most entrepreneurial ventures, the company also had vision, tenacity, some capital, market research, and an understanding of expenses, competition and supply chains. How a new business will affect the personal lives of its leader, or the lives of their families and spouses, however, rarely...
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Certificate Of Need--Is It Still Needed?
New Hampshire lawmakers are proposing a law that would do away with the Certificate of Need process. This is a state requirement for hospitals and other healthcare facilities that want to expand or establish new medical facilities. The aim of CON is to keep redundant healthcare out of the system.
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For Profit Cancer Center Comes To NH to Make Its Case to...
Cancer Treatment Centers of America is eyeing a spot in New Hampshire. The for profit chain wants to build a hospital in the Northeast. CTCA successfully lobbied Georgia to change its regulations so a specialty hospital could be built in that state. The company is hoping lawmakers in New Hampshire will make similar changes. A proposed law would exempt specialty cancer hospitals from certain regulations and also from Medicaid taxes.
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Weight Watchers' new magic formula
In the world of weight loss programs, WeightWatchers rules, with more than a million members worldwide. NewCEO David Kirchoff is credited with increasing meeting attendance in North America by fourteen percent, and upping online membership by 64%. Those numbers mean money, of course. Weigh Watchers is valued at an estimated atfive billion dollarsdoublethat of a year ago.
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How Lego stacked itself out of the ashes
Contrary to the buy now messaging of the season, kids arent looking only for instant gratification. Take Lego. In 2005, Lego Corporation came back from the brink by capitalizing on research showing that kids are inspired by the difficulty and process of mastering a complicated model. So, rather than dumbing down to compete with the plug-in immediacy of video games,Lego ramped up the sophistication of its models.
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New Hampshire Business Owners Feeling A Lot of Caution,...
Each year the Business and Industry Association of New Hampshire surveys business owners to guage the states economic climate and whats on the minds of business owners.
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Upper Valley Business and Education Partnership
The Upper Valley Business & Education Partnership makes connections between schools and their wider communities. Tyler Mansfield and Jim Madden met through the Partnerships Everybody Wins! reading mentoring program.JIM:Ive always loved to read so it was really just sort of a natural fit to share my love of reading with the students. I guess we both discovered we kind of liked mysteries.
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Want to Come to the US? Invest in a Business
H-1B visas help employers find skilled workers they cant find in the US workforce.Something else thats hard to come by these days for some businesses is credit.Turns out theres a visa program for that too. Foreigners can apply for an EB-5 visa, as long as they agree to invest a half million dollars or more in capital investment project for an American company.
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