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In the Spotlight : Colliers International in Manchester facilitated the sale of 16 Garabedian Drive in Salem, a 52,000+ square-foot multi-tenanted general industrial building that was about 70% occupied at the time of purchase, to All Access Equipment. The company, which provides CMC tracked lifts and facility maintenance, was in the market to purchase an industrial facility in southern NH with enough vacant space to expand its business.

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Red River, a technology company in Claremont, named Tim Rod chief technology officer. Rod has more than 25 years of IT industry experience and most recently worked at Cisco, where he was responsible for identifying and executing go-to-market strategies for its customer experience division.

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Cornerstone VNA  in Rochester recognized longtime supporter First Seacoast Bank with a 2019 Cornerstone Award for its ongoing support of an event called Caregivers Connect.

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Franklin Savings Bank hired Andrew Cirrone as a business relationship and southern NH market manager. Cirrone has 16 years of experience in retail banking and business development.

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Tuff Shed, Inc., a supplier of storage buildings and garages, opened a new location in Derry to serve southern NH and northern Massachusetts. This Derry factory is the first Tuff Shed location in New Hampshire.

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Bretton Woods Vacations and Peabody & Smith Realtyentered into a formal affiliation agreement while both will maintain their independent ownership, which will allow the firms to share office space at the Peabody & Smith Realty Bretton Woods office and assist clients and customers of each company by delivering seamless services for both vacation rentals and real estate sales services.

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Comcast named Dennis Mathew senior vice president of the company's Western New England Region, which employs more than 1,600 people and encompasses 300 communities in Connecticut, western Massachusetts, Vermont, western New Hampshire, and New York. In this role, Mathew is the top executive responsible for all aspects of the business including sales, marketing, operations, financial performance, and customer experience.

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Lyophilization Services of New England (LSNE), a privately-held contract and development manufacturing organization, earned FDA approval for an abbreviated new drug application for a sterile injectable product manufactured at their aseptic fill-finish facility in León, Spain. Acquired by the Bedford firm in 2019, it is the fourth facility approved for US commercial distribution.

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Brian D. Sites, MD, medical director of the Acute Pain Medicine Service at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, was selected to serve as editor-in-chief of the journal Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine following the retirement of Dr. Marc Huntoon at the end of the year. 

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The NH Tree Farm Program named Kimball Wildlife Forest in Gilford the 2019 Outstanding Community Tree Farm of the Year. The Town of Gilford manages Kimball Wildlife Forest as a habitat demonstration area.

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Piscataqua Savings Bank in Portsmouth received the Best for The World 2019 Honoree, placing in the top 10% worldwide, in the “Workers” category. Certified B Corporations must meet the highest standards of overall social and environmental performance, transparency and accountability and aspire to use the power of business for good.

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For the third year in a row, St. Mary’s Bank was named “A Best Credit Union to Work For” by Credit Union Journal, a distinction staff say underscores its century-old mission.

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The U.S. Small Business Administration is accepting nominations for its 2020 National Small Business Week Awards, an opportunity each year to highlight the impact of outstanding entrepreneurs and others from all 50 States and US Territories in May 2020. Eligible businesses must have been successfully operating at least three years and must have received at least one type of SBA assistance.