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Saturday, November 28th may be Small Business Saturday, created 10 years ago to encourage shoppers to support their local brick-and-mortar stores duri... Learn More

As a manufacturer of construction materials, Therma-HEXX in Portsmouth was deemed essential. Prior to the shutdown, they voluntarily sent office staf... Learn More

Improving energy efficiency should be a priority of any business because of the economic and environmental impacts. The two are often intertwined and ... Learn More

As a pilot for more than 30 years, Steve Cunningham knows all too well what it feels like to be a mile high and cruising blissfully among the clouds. ... Learn More

Since early spring, many parts of our lives changed dramatically “in the middle of a pandemic,” but for most of us, starting a major business was not ... Learn More

Over $80K of booked work was wiped from my business in the months of March, April, and May. At the time of the shutdown, 95 percent of our programs we... Learn More

Rose Padfield was never thinking about turning off the lights on her business even during the challenging times the COVID-19 pandemic brought to small... Learn More

Were we an essential business?  Were our customers (garden centers and landscapers throughout Northern New England) essential?  Fifty percent of our s... Learn More

Employee Stock Ownership Plans, known as ESOPs, is a business development strategy which elevates vested employees to employee owners. Employees of ES... Learn More

For a catering business, things were pretty grim in April.  Nobody needs a caterer unless there’s a gathering. Executive Chef Jay Curcio and his wife,... Learn More