Mike Cote

Manchester

Editor at New Hampshire Business Review

Editor at New Hampshire Magazine

Business editor, columnist, music writer, grandpa. @unionleader

Articles

People and Property: Real Estate and Construction News from Around NH

1 week ago | nhbr.com | Mike Cote

TFMoran honored by Structural Engineers of NH for Rockingham County project TFMoran honored by Structural Engineers of NH for Rockingham County projectTFMoran was honored by the Structural Engineers of New Hampshire with the award in the “Buildings” category for Rockingham County Municipal Complex on May 21 during the group’s annual Excellence in Structural Engineering Awards event at the Puritan Conference Center in Manchester.
Around the planet 25 times

2 weeks ago | nhbr.com | Mike Cote

SubCom celebrated a milestone this month when it became the first company to deploy 1 million kilometers of subsea cable systems. One of the world’s biggest developers of undersea fiber-optic cables employs 1,100 people at its manufacturing campus across the road from a shopping mall in Newington. SubCom designs, manufactures, deploys and maintains high-speed fiber-optic networks for telecom companies and tech giants like Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta.
A sequel with a twiist

4 weeks ago | nhbr.com | Mike Cote

Dean Kamen company launches portable insulin pump that succeeds the one he invented more than 40 years ago April 30 was “twiist” day in the Manchester Millyard. The first people with type 1 diabetes to use a new portable insulin pump developed by a Manchester company, outside of a clinical trial, are some its own employees.
Your best investment in local journalism

1 month ago | nhbr.com | Mike Cote

Get a year’s worth of NH Business Review for the price of lunch The old adage there’s no such thing as free lunch was long ignored by media companies. Newspapers and magazines have a long history of selling their products below cost or giving them away. Newspapers traditionally used subscription fees to offset the cost of producing and delivering their products. It was break-even at best. The biggest share of profit came from advertising.
Q&A: Vice President of Marketing and Former Co-owner of Sullivan Tire Paul Sullivan

1 month ago | nhbr.com | Mike Cote

The owners of Sullivan Tire and Auto Service surprised the industry in 2023 when the family business turned over ownership of the company to its employees through an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP). As director of the CEO & Family Enterprise Center, Michelline Dufort connects family-owned businesses with resources — including each other.
Editor's Note: May and Mystery

1 month ago | nhmagazine.com | Mike Cote

I can’t think of a better way to make a buck than to get paid to read stories. Our team of editors at New Hampshire Magazine certainly do more than that as we work with writers and photographers to produce the articles that appear on these pages. That said, we get to spend time with talented storytellers who do such a great job spinning a tale that we might forget for a bit that we’re supposed to be editing because we’ve gotten completely absorbed in the narrative. Frequent contributor J.
NH Manufacturing Extension Partnership faces closing as Trump plans to cut funding

1 month ago | keenesentinel.com | Mike Cote

While President Trump says the tariffs fueling a global trade war will jumpstart U.S. manufacturing, he is pulling funding from the Manufacturing Extension Partnership program, the federal centers dedicated to supporting its growth. The president and director of the N.H. MEP expects it to close if the cuts continue. “Most likely we’re not going to be funded unless the whole program is funded.
Q&A: Director of the CEO & Family Enterprise Center Michelline Dufort

1 month ago | nhbr.com | Mike Cote

As director of the CEO & Family Enterprise Center, Michelline Dufort connects family-owned businesses with resources — including each other. The center helps owners navigate the challenges that can arise when husbands and wives, brothers and sisters, parents and children, and other family members are working side by side. For the past 25 years, former school teacher Denise Thompkins has owned and operated Sylvan Learning Center, which she launched in New Hampshire with three franchise locations.
Homeward bound: NeighborWorks Southern New Hampshire carries the torch for affordable housing

1 month ago | nhbr.com | Mike Cote

Homeward boundHome where my thought’s escapin’Home where my music’s playin’Home where my love lies waitin’Silently for me. — Paul Simon, “Homeward Bound”When NeighborWorks invited me to be the keynote speaker for their annual breakfast March 20, I needed a title for my talk. The second part of the title, “Housing — and lots of it — is key to NH’s future” — is obvious to anyone who has been living in New Hampshire for the past decade.
Jägermeister gathers more than 500 at Sunday River for record “après shot ski”

1 month ago | nhmagazine.com | Mike Cote

It was one for the books and the shot skis. Here’s how you gather more than 500 skiers and snowboarders at the end of the season when variable temps turn the trails into piles of corn snow and patches of ice: Invite them all for a drink.