Mike Cote

2 weeks 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.

2 weeks 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.

3 weeks 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.

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.

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.