New England Business articles from May 1986

New England Business archives from May 1986

Service companies have an off year. (Top 100 Service Companies) (directory)
May 19, 1986... SERVICE COMPANIES HAVE AN OFF YEAR At first blush, the results of New England's 100 top service companies appear to be terrible: Down 53% on the bottom line, despite an overall 7% advance in revenues? Well, there is a way of looking at...

Space-age exploration for water mixes with unusual business commitment. (BCI Geonetics Inc.)
May 19, 1986... SPACE-AGE EXPLORATION FOR WATER MIXES WITH UNUSUAL BUSINESS COMMITMENT The art of finding water has come a long way since the days of gnarled dowers with forked cherry sticks. In Laconia, N.H.M a company called BCI Geonetics Inc. has...

Goodbye, boatyards; hello, "dockominiums." (condo builders want to buy boatyard property)
May 19, 1986... Goodbye, Boatyards; Hello, 'Dockominiums' Ted Hood has been around boats and boatyards for as long as he can remember. Boatbuilder, sailmaker and yachtsman, Hood has made a life and a living from boats and the water. Now, as he ponders...

New England's top privately held companies. (directory)
May 5, 1986... New England's Top Privately Held Companies It was a very good year. Perhaps 1985 was a vintage year for the private companies of New England. For the 250 private companies volunterring sals or revenue results for our annual tally, an...

Hit hard by high risk ventures out west, Covenant Group returns to native business. (company profile)
May 5, 1986... HIT HARD BY HIGH RISK VENTURES OUT WEST COVENANT GROUP RETURNS TO NATIVE BUSINESS The Covenant Group is relieved to be coming back to New England after a tumultuous sojourn doing business on the West Coast. It's coming back a little...

Will Quinn & Johnson's acquisition of Ingalls give Hill, Holliday a run for number one?
May 5, 1986... WILL QUINN & JOHNSON'S ACQUISITION OF INGALLS GIVE HILL, HOLLIDAY A RUN FOR NUMBER ONE? As S. Joseph Hoffman recalls it, an early morning meeting he had the last fall with Richard C. "Bink" Garrison resembled more a clandestine meeting...

Idle Wild Foods agrees to buy-out offer amidst lawsuits, feuding and FBI probe.
May 5, 1986... IDLE WILD FOODS AGREES TO BUY-OUT OFFER AMIDST LAWSUITS, FEUDING AND FBI PROBE The dust is starting to settle now, but one month ago you could barely make out who was suing whom at Idle Wild Foods Inc. of Worcester. The air was thick with...

Yeah, I'm crazy. What are you driving? (Yankee Candle Company Inc.) (company profile)
May 5, 1986... "Yeah, I'm crazy. What are you driving?" Mike Kittredge owns a factory in South Deerfield, Mass., where he manufactures candles by hand-dipping. His company, he says, is the last major candle company that still dips by hand. Hand-dipping...

"I never want to be a little fish in a big pond." ( ) (company profile)
May 5, 1986... "I Never Want To Be A Little Fish in a Big Pond." Betsy Henley Cohn always knew she would run Joseph Cohn & Sons Inc. in New Haven. What she didn't know was just how soon she would begin. But her father died the day before she was to...