NASHUA – UniFirst, a supplier of uniforms, work wear and protective clothing, has been ranked one of the nation’s top 50 apparel companies for 2011 by Apparel Magazine. Apparel Magazine, a leading resource for global apparel executives, featured UniFirst in the No. 13 ...
NASHUA – Do you remember the brouhaha that erupted when iPhone users were told some of their calls disappeared because they were the holding the phone wrong? This “death grip” sounded like a joke to most of us, but it sounded like money to Paratek. The small tech ...
BALTIMORE – Faith E. Wachter doesn’t normally spend as much as $17 on shampoo in a single shopping trip. But by stocking up on hair-care products recently, the Ellicott City, Md., resident saved more than $4 on gasoline for her car – and just in time for a drive ...
WASHINGTON – With the deadline for raising the nation’s debt limit and prospects for financial-market panic now a week away, an impatient, frustrated President Barack Obama warned the nation Monday night that the partisan impasse risks “sparking a deep economic ...
WASHINGTON – In the battle to raise the debt ceiling, politics usually trumps principle. How else to explain the 180-degree turns that lawmakers of both parties have made in congressional debt ceiling votes since 2002? President Barack Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, ...
Think of it as when one door closes, the Copper Door opens. At least, that’s the idea behind the latest restaurant endeavor headed to Bedford, with well-known restaurateur Tom Boucher at the helm. Boucher is adding the Copper Door to his growing list of successful restaurants in the ...
HUDSON – One local business is showing improvement in the down economy, and recently hired 12 new employees to work at its new location. Airex Filter, with headquarters on Clement Road in Hudson, expanded to a second location on Executive Drive this spring. The building will be used ...
A couple of weeks ago I’d originally started my column by indicating my call for a second-half downturn might be wrong. But then the June jobs report hit, and I hit the delete key on that intro. It’s now mid-July, and despite the lackluster jobs climate and ...
DALLAS – If your neighborhood Blockbuster store is open, it’s cleared a hurdle with new owners Dish Network Corp. Dish, the No. 2 satellite TV provider, told the bankruptcy court Thursday that it plans to assume about 1,500 Blockbuster leases, wrapping up a bankruptcy that ...
CHICAGO – With street signs carrying names like “Cessna Lane,” and “attached” meaning an airplane hangar instead of a car garage, it’s a safe bet that Brookeridge Aero Estates isn’t a typical subdivision. For Arnie Zimmerman ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. – If not for Google’s first three flops at social networking, the search giant might never have come up with a viable challenge to Facebook and Twitter. Google’s fourth and most ambitious attempt at social networking has set Silicon Valley abuzz, ...
NASHUA – SkillSoft has announced a new Legal Compliance e-learning course for the United Kingdom ‘s Bribery Act 2010. SkillSoft, a leading software-as-a-service provider of e-learning and performance support solutions for global enterprises, government, education and ...
Bugaboo Creek Steak House is under new ownership. Capitol BC Restaurants LLC takes over as the new owner of the steak house, which has 12 locations throughout the Eastern Corridor, including two in New Hampshire, in Nashua and Newington. “Since taking ownership of Bugaboo Creek ...
FORT WORTH, Texas – American Airlines announced Wednesday that it will purchase 460 new aircraft in the next decade, which it called the largest jet order in aviation history. The Fort Worth-based carrier said it plans to buy 260 Airbus aircraft – half will be A320s and ...
HACKENSACK, N.J. – Luis Morales, owner of Andre’s Wine and Spirits in Leonia, N.J., opened a business checking account at the Bank of America branch across the street from the shop when he acquired the business three years ago. Last year he closed the account in a huff and ...
Are we as ethical as we think we are? An important new book by Tufts University professor and Harvard Program on Negotiation mainstay Max H. Bazerman and Notre Dame professor Ann E. Tenbrunsel says probably not. In “Blind Spots – Why We Fail to Do What’s Right and ...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – As expected, Bank of America Corp. on Tuesday gave investors an historically bad quarterly earnings report. The Charlotte-based bank said it lost $8.8 billion in the second quarter, as more than $20 billion in previously disclosed mortgage-related charges walloped ...
DETROIT – Borders Group threw in the towel Monday afternoon and agreed to submit a previously announced liquidation plan to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan on Thursday. The Ann Arbor, Mich.-based bookseller had been trying to reorganize for five months, but was overwhelmed ...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – With summer sales kicking into high gear, it can be tempting to throw caution to the wind and embark on some pre-Christmas splurging. We’ve rolled past the Father’s Day and Fourth of July deals and into the back-to-school zone. But some experts ...
MIAMI – When the space shuttle Atlantis launched July 1, it had one primary mission: Resupply the International Space Station. And when it returns to Earth, another spaceship is ready to take on that mission – for a profit. A California company has a rocket and a $1.6 ...