Top 100 Public Companies The list of the Top 100 Public Companies has been a staple of Business NH Magazine since 1987, monitoring the ever changing landscape of publicly-traded companies in the Granite State. The number of public companies based in NH has steadily declined, while the number of subsidiaries on the list has increased. The following list details which companies were new to the list each year and which companies disappeared from the list. There was no separate public list in 1989. New to the List in 1988 Off the List in 1988 Company Name Sprague Technologies Inc. Harvard Industries Inc. Hospital Corp. of America AM International Inc. W.R. Grace & Co. Genicom Corp. C.R. Bard Inc. The Timberland Co. Prime Computer Inc. Penn Central Corp. Standex International Corp. United Technologies Corp. Dataproducts Corp. General Signal Corp. Brockway Inc. Computervision Corp. Harris Corp. Location,, Newfields, Derry,, Fitzwilliam Corporate HQ in,,, Newmarket, New to the List in 1990 New England Telephone Sears, Roebuck & Co. General Electric Meter and Control MPB Corp. Kollsman Davidson Interior Trim Davidson Instrument panel General Electric Co. New Hampshire Insurance Group Moore Business Forms Webster Valve & Foundry Somersworth Farmington Hooksett Franklin
Calcomp Corp. Allen-Bradley Co. Teledyne Electro Mechanisms Crosfield Hasteh Norton Co. Clarostat Carol Cable Co. Arwood Corp. New England Business Services Batesville Casket Co. Tambrands Unitrode Integrated Circuits Owens Brockway Plastics Label Art Federal Express Polyclad Laminates SCI Manufacturing Teleflex Fluroplastics Universal Packaging Corp. Bemis Co. Blow Molding Division Groundwater Technology Wetterau Inc. Luminescent Systems Kendall Insurance "Omni Hotels, North America" Normandeau Associates Lydall-Technical Papers Division BYTE Magazine Kollmorgan Corp. Tilton Claremont Wilton Franklin Bow Greenville Lebanon NH's Public Companies Wheelabrator Technologies Standex International Cabletron Systems Unitil Corp. EnergyNorth Healthsource Chemical Fabrics Corp. Shaer Shoe Corp. Vitronics Corp. Newmarket Ferrofluidics Corp. Howtek Corp. Termiflex Corp. Publicly Traded Banks in NH Dartmouth Bancorp, Inc. Cheshire Financial Corp. NFS Financial Corp. Nashaua Greatbay Bankshares Community Bankshares Bankshares New Hampshire Thrift Bankshares New London Granite State Bankshares Cornerstone Financial Corp. Derry Seacoast Savings Bank Cooperative Bank
Off the List in 1990 First New Hampshire Banks Inc. Indian Head Banks Inc. Data General Corp. Harvard Industries Inc. Hospital Corp. of America Apollo Computer Inc. AM International Inc. United Savers Bancorp. Burndy Corp. Northern Telecom Ltd. Prime Computer Inc., Durham Newfields, Derry Exeter New to the List in 1991 NH's Public Companies BCI Geonetics Inc. Laconia Publicly Traded Banks in NH First Coastal Banks, Hillsborough Bank and Trust, First Essex NH Corp. Windham, New Hampshire Ball Bearings Harris Graphics Pike Industrues Hewlett Packard Calcomp Inc. /Portex AT&T Greenbriar Terrace Healthcare Northeast Rehabilitation Hospital National Sea Products Armtec Industries Waste Management of NH Hendrix Wire and Cable Dowty Palmer-Chenard Inc. Holiday Inn- Center of NH IBM Weeks Dairy Foods Hubbard Farms Sheraton Tilton Exeter Londonderry Somersworth Walpole Off the List in 1991 Shaer Shoe Corp. Crosfield Hastech Norton Co. Owens Brockway Plastics Federal Express Groundwater Technology Luminescent Systems Lydall- Technical Papers Division Greenville Lebanon New to the List in 1992 New Hampshire's Public Companies Fisher Scientific International
Henley Properties Inc. James River Corp. Groveton Mill Wyman Gordon Investment Castings TFX Medical Inc. Balzers Willis Corroon Corp. of NH Lindt & Sprungli Keane Inc. Northern NE Branch Rockingham Bancorp. Groveton Tilton Stratham Exeter Off the List in 1992 Termiflex Corp. BCI Geonetics Inc. Amoskeg Bankshares New Hampshire Savings Bank Corp. Dartmouth Bancorp. Cornerstone Financial Group Seacoast Savings Bank Cooperative Bank Hillsborough Bank and Trust First Essex NH Corp. Harris Graphics Home Insurance Co. Arwood Corp. Holiday Inn- Center of NH Weeks Dairy Foods Teleflex Fluoroplastics Sheraton Kendall Insurance Kollmorgan, Electro-Optical Div. Omni Hotels, North America Laconia Derry, Windham, Tilton New to the List in 1993 NH Based Public Companies Wheelabrator Technologies Inc. Abex Inc. Sportswear Inc. The Bolsa Chica Co. Presstek Inc. WPI Group Inc. Warner Termiflex Corp. Osram Sylvania Inc. Hospital Corporation of America The Netherlands Insurance Cos. Wausau Papers of New Hampshire Inc. Norton Co. NESLAB Instruments Inc. Federal Express Corp. Imagitex Inc. Beau Interconnect Systems Arthur Whitcomb Inc. Hillsborough,, Exeter,, Derry Groveton Hillsborough, Littleton, Newington Laconia
ABB Combustion Engineering Nuclear Systems Newington Northern Utilities Inc. NH Rehabilitation Hospital Off the List in 1993 New to the List in 1994 The Henley Group Henley Properties Inc. James River Corp. B/G Group Webster Valve and Foundry M/A-Com James River Corp. Groveton Mill Calcomp W.R. Grace Organic Chemicals Div. Clarostat Corp. TFX Medical Inc. Bemis Co., Blow Molding Div. Balzers Willis Corroon Corp. of NH BYTE Magazine Normandeau Associates Lindt & Sprungli Keane Inc. Northern NE Branch *No list for 1994. Hot Stocks instead. Berlin Franklin Groveton Stratham New to the List in 1995 NH-Based Puclic Companies Brookstone Inc. Unitrode Corp. Summa Four Inc. Softdesk Inc. Henniker Acuity Imaging Inc. Conceptronic Inc. Biorelease Corp. NH-Based Publicly Traded Banks Savings Bank Ledyard National Bank Centerpoint Bank Healthsource of NH Inc. Lockheed Commercial Electronic Co. Regional Hospital Shawmut Bank of NH First National Bank of DM Management Co. Hanover Meredith Off the List in 1995 Abex Inc. The Bolsa Chica Co. Termiflex Corp. Great Bay Bankshares Inc. Northeast Rehabilitation Hospital C.R. Bard, USCI Angiography Div. Fitzwilliam
AIG/New Hampshire Insurance Imagitex Inc. Hendrix Wire and Cable Co. IBM Willis Corroon Corp. of NH Rockingham Bancorp. Northern Utilities Inc. NH Rehabilitation Hospital Nasuha Exeter New to the List in 1996 NH-Based Public Companies Storage Computer Corp. Stocker and Yale Inc. State Line Tack Baybank FSB Hitachi Cable Inc. Willis Corroon Corp. of NH Plaistow Off the List in 1996 Acuity Imaging Inc. Centerpoint Bank Healthsource of NH Inc. AT&T Corp. Shawmut Bank of NH New to the List in 1997 NH-Based Public Companies The General Chemical Group Inc. Aavid Thermal Technologies, Inc. Troy Mills, Inc. Troy Pennichuck Corporation Micronetics Wireless Inc. Diatide Inc. Londonderry Oxford Health Plans GE Aircraft Engines Hampshire Chemical Corporation Pak 2000, Inc. Hooksett Mirror Lake Off the List in 1997 Baily Corp. Softdesk Inc. Ledyard National Bank Digital Equipment Corp. Kollsman Federal Express Corp. State Line Tack First National Bank of General Cable Corp. Tilcon Arthur Whitcomb Inc. Seabrook Henniker Hanover Plaistow New to the List in 1998 NH-Based Public Companies Fund American Enterprise Holdings Hanover BayCorp Holdings, Ltd.
White Pines Software Inc. Renaissance Design, Inc. American Electromedics Corp. Digital Equipment Corp. Attitash Bear Peak Healthsource Inc. Erie Scientific MBNA Marketing Systems, Inc. General Cable Corp. Keane Inc. Amherst Bartlett Hooksett Off the List in 1998 Vitronics Corp. Conceptronic Inc. CFX Corp. Community Bankshares, Inc. Primary Bank Bank Shares, Inc. Hewlett-Packard Co. Supervalu Inc. ABB Combustion Engineering, Inc. Crowley Food Inc. Willis Corroon Corp. of NH Newmarket Exeter Newington New to the List in 1999 NH-Based Public Companies PC Connection Environmental Power Corporation Omtool Ltd. Bottomline Technologies Objective Communications, Inc. Compaq Computer Corp. Osram Sylvania-General Lighting Osram Sylvania-Precision Materials & Components Exeter Off the List in 1999 Renaissance Design, Inc. Parkland Medical Center The Netherlands Insurance Cos. Velcro USA MBNA Marketing Systems, Inc. National Sea Products, Inc. Pak 2000, Inc. Wheelabrator Technologies Hitachi Cable, Inc. Derry Mirror Lake New to the List in 2000 NH-Based Public Companies Gen Tek Inc. Northway Financial, Inc. Berlin Bently Pharmaceuticals, Inc. North Silknet Software Inc.
Oracle Corporation Labsphere, Inc. CBSI North Sutton Off the List in 2000 Troy Mills Troy Compaq Computer Corp. Teradyne, Inc., Connection Systems Div. Osram Sylvania-General Lighting Crown Vantage Berlin Benchmark Electronics Universal Packaging Corp. Bow Batesville Casket Co. Beau Interconnect Gilford Summa Four New to the List in 2001 NH-Based Public Companies Apogent Technologies Inc. Bottomline Technologies Troy Mills Troy Skillsoft Corp. Teradyne, Inc., Connection Systems Div. Sanmina Corporation Osram Sylvania-General Lighting Flextronics-NH Texas Instruments Cisco Systems Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp. Lucent Technologies Mykrolis Corp. Off the List in 2001 White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd. HADCO Corp. Aavid Thermal Technologies Eric Scientific Raytheon Marine Fruit of the Loom Sports and Licensing Vishay Sprague Hanover New to the List in 2002 NH-Based Public Companies Bricsnet Alternative Technology Resources, Inc. Autodesk Graphic Packaging Corp. Adelphia Communications General Cable Industries Incorporated Riverstone Resources, LCC Georgia Pacific Gypsum Bow Newington
WMUR Channel 9 UniFirst Corporation KeySpan Energy Delivery New England Tecnomatix-Unicam Lebanon Off the List in 2002 Baycorp Holdings Ltd. Troy Mills Inc. Troy NEXIQ Technologies CuseeMe Networks, Inc. Procter& Gamble Tambrands Claremont Cisco Systems Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp. SCI Systems Inc. Hooksett Mykrolis Corp. Covansys New to the list in 2003 NH-Based Public Companies TargitInteractive, Inc. Heidelberg Web Systems Inc. Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield FPL Energy Seabrook Station Seabrook Lindt & Sprungli USA Inc. Stratham Nexfor Fraser Papers Berlin-Gorham Operations Berlin Lonza Group Hutchinson Sealing Systems, Inc. Newfields Enterasys Networks Comcast Providian National Bank Lewis and Saunders, Inc. Laconia Advanced Circuit Technology, Inc. Cisco Systems Off the List in 2003 Bricsnet Alternative Technology Resources, Inc. The J. Jill Group Flextronics-NH Keane Inc. Hubbard ISA LLC Pak 2000, Inc. Lucent Technologies Labsphere, Inc. KeySpan Energy Delivery New England Ferrotec (USA) Corp. Hampshire Chemical Corp. Tecnomatix-Unicam Tilton Walpole Mirror Lake North Sutton New to the List in 2004 Flextronics Stonyfield Farm Londonderry
Off the List in 2004 Seacoast Newspapers Pac 2000 Ferrotec (USA) Corp. Gen Tek Inc. The General Chemical Group Inc. TargitInteractive, Inc. Video Network Communications, Inc. Providian National Bank New England Business Service, Inc. Mirror Lake