Business NH Magazine

Nh's Best Large Companies to Work For: Stryker Biotech

Additionally, Stryker sponsors two employee athletic teams - an outdoor soccer team and an indoor soccer team - and holds Weight Watchers classes on site when requested. Stryker also shows its commitment to employees by reimbursing up to $5,000 in adoption-related expenses, providing three weeks vacation to new hires and paying out unused sick time.

Nh's Best Small Companies to Work For: Dynamic Network Services Inc.

Nh's Best Small Companies to Work For: Freedom Cad Services Inc.

At the meetings, all active projects, recent proposals and sales prospects are reviewed to keep employees updated on workload and the health of the company.

Nh's Best Small Companies to Work For: Digital Prospectors Corp.

[...] it has a company-paid vending machine stocked with snacks, lunch and breakfast foods, and drinks.

Nh's Best Large Companies to Work For: Tele Atlas North America

There is an also an employee-of-the-month award of $500, a referral reward program of up to $1,500 to encourage employees to send potential employees to Tel Atlas, periodic team leadership awards ($100 per member), and financial rewards topping $3,000 for employees who contribute to the company securing a patent. The winning team is now working on a project aimed at showing how emerging GPS-enabled mobile phones and other devices can use Tele Atlas data to coordinate rescue efforts after a n...

Nh's Best Small Companies to Work For: All Metals Industries, Inc.

The company has introduced time-off benefits, a medical leave program, income protection through a long term disability program, education and scholarship opportunities, computer purchase loans, and enhanced employee incentives.

Nh's Best Large Companies to Work For: Kollsman Inc.

At a time when many companies struggle to provide basic health insurance coverage, Kollsman paid COBRA insurance premiums for a year for an employee who hadn't worked a single day. In 2007, Kollsman took on the burden for paying the full premium for its long-term disability insurance and did not increase health insurance premiums or alter plans, a practice that will continue in 2008.

Nh's Best Large Companies to Work For: Wire Belt Company of America

Since family is one of the company's values, one of the interview questions routinely asked of potential hires is "how do you balance work/family life?" Wire Belt does its part by allowing employees to modify their hours to accommodate day care, school or other family commitments.

Nh's Best Large Companies to Work For: Fci/Burndy Products

An Activities Committee organizes company outings, including bus trips to Fenway Park, New York City and Foxwoods Casino; holiday luncheons; ice cream days; barbecues; and tickets to plays and sports games on the company dime.

Cop(Per) and Robbers

Scrap yard owners and other business that deal with metals have had to install expensive security systems, including lights, alarms and night-vision cameras to thwart thieves. Business owners who've been targeted by thieves are frustrated that there's not greater accountability and tracking in the scrap metal trade.

Nh's Best Large Companies to Work For: Citizens Bank New Hampshire

Among its most popular volunteer programs is the Community Service Sabbatical Program that allows one colleague in each state to take a paid leave of absence to serve full-time at a nonprofit agency for three months. [...] it did so by providing outplacement services, paid severance and continuation of benefits, one-on-one meetings with an HR representative to investigate internal job opportunities, and paid on-the-job shadowing for colleagues to determine interest in a new role at the compa...

Ready to Rumble?

The Nashua Pride, a minor league baseball team, has suffered through some of its worst attendance in its 10-year history. Arena events generate about $1.3 million in direct spending - tickets, food, and lodging and about $2 million in indirect spending in Manchester and the surrounding counties, says Professor Doug Blais, who heads the sports management department at Southern NH University and has studied the success of the arena in Manchester. The NH Fisher Cats, an Eastern AA affiliate of...

Nhhtc: The Ultimate Tech Support

Chairman Matt Pierson, an independent investor in local tech companies, calls education the "single biggest area of focus" given that he says nine out of 10 technology companies would identify a lack of skilled workers as the largest barrier to business growth.

Finding Their Way Back

[...] delivery times were being measured in months, customers were canceling orders and the company's credit had deteriorated to the point where it could no longer afford the raw materials it needed. Spaulding Composites creates engineered thermoset composite materials used in air motors, pumps and compressors for products ranging from flare guns to ejection systems in fighter jets to medical devices. Fosshield is an antimicrobial fiber that kills odor-causing bacteria, mold, mildew, fungi,...