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Calypso Communications is an award-winning premier public relations studio that combines strategy, content, and creative to solve business challenges. For 17 years, Calypso has delivered radical acts of communication to local, regional, and global companies across a wide array of sectors, including energy, health care, sporting goods, technology, and higher education. With offices in Portsmouth, N.H. and Portland, Maine, the Calypso team of experts uses an integrated communications approach to help clients achieve their objectives.

Coast of Maine Organic Products was founded in 1996 with the simple idea that a healthy planet needs healthy soil to sustain life. From this idea, a love of gardening and a commitment to sustainable practices, Coast of Maine Organic Products has grown to offer what we believe are the most unique and effective organic gardening products available. Our sustainable, buy local mantra is at the core of everything we do.

Hannaford Supermarkets, based in Scarborough, Maine, operates over 180 stores and employs more than 27,000 associates in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont. Our stores offer good prices and value; top-quality fresh foods supported by daily deliveries; and friendly, efficient service. We are known as a responsible corporate citizen. In 2009, our Cony Street store in Augusta, Maine, became the first supermarket in the world built to the highest standards of the U.S. Green Building Council: Platinum LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design). In addition, for the past three years, we've been the only food retailer recognized by the National Business Group on Health as a platinum employer for encouragement of healthy lifestyles.

Image 4 exists to reduce your time to market, eliminate the hassles of multiple vendors, provide outstanding imagery and fixturing, and streamline your dimensional marketing program. We do this across North America, for projects large and small, for companies you have not heard of - but will, and for brands you know well. Social Responsibility and Sustainability is core to how we think and work. We're known as one of the most environmentally sustainable companies in the market space. Our projects have claimed LEED Silver, Gold and Platinum ratings. If your customers and management value and measure the environmental impact of your sales, we can contribute to excellent, definable outcomes.

Liberty Utilities provides electric and natural gas service to over 130,000 residents and businesses in New Hampshire. We strive to develop a local, responsive and caring relationship with our customers, communities and regulators.

For the past 30 years Liberty Utilities has offered energy efficiency programs to our customers to decrease their energy usage, lower their bills and reduce emissions. For the past four years we have been recognized as the EPA Energy Star Partner of the Year.

As the state’s largest natural gas utility, we are focused on serving more customers and working with local communities on economic development opportunities.

Mascoma Bank, a mutually owned bank established in 1899, is headquartered in Lebanon, New Hampshire. We are proud to be a Certified B Corporation娛he Bank has over $1.6 billion in assets, 340 employees, and 26 locations throughout the Connecticut River Valley in New Hampshire and Vermont. Mutually owned and not for sale, the Bank has no stockholders to please. We are committed to remaining independent and to re-investing profits into the community. We have been serving the banking needs of the local community for generations by offering a full range of personal and business financial services.

Merchants Fleet has the mission of providing the most comprehensive, flexible and innovative fleet experience on the planet. We’ve been delivering customized fleet management solutions to our clients for 60 years, and now with more than 40,000 EVs on order, we are leading the charge in electrifying fleets across North America. We are deeply committed to supporting the NH community, supporting the local Salvation Army for over 16 years, as well as the Gail Singer Memorial Blood Drive, one of the largest in the US, for over 35 years. Merchants Fleet and Merchants Auto, our pre-owned car dealership, are headquartered in Hooksett, NH.

Nixon Peabody LLP is one of the largest law firms in the United States and is recognized by American Lawyer Media as a “Global 100” firm. With 700 attorneys collaborating across 25 major practice areas in 18 office locations, including Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Manchester, New York City, Providence, Rochester, San Francisco, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, and Washington, DC. Our attorneys take a team approach to serving clients, and are focused on bringing clients our depth of knowledge and experience in their industry, as well as in the law. We act as trusted advisors to clients that include public and private entities; government and tax-exempt organizations; emerging, middle-market, and global corporations; private equity and venture capital funds; universities; health care entities, and more. The firm’s size, diversity, and advanced technological resources enable it to offer comprehensive legal services to individuals and organizations of all sizes in local, state, national, and international matters.

In 2008, Nixon Peabody LLP was recognized for the third year in a row by FORTUNE magazine as one of its “100 Best Companies To Work For®.” The firm has also been named to the Human Rights Campaign’s 2008 “Best Places To Work For GLBT Equality” list. We have a significant commitment to pro bono activities and supporting our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism.

Established in 1988, Prime Buchholz LLC is an industry-leading, completely independent investment advisory firm. To each of our 250+ clients, we are more than just a service provider; we are a full-fledged investment partner whose mission is to go above and beyond in pursuit of greatness—beyond just numbers.

For over 30 years, the firm has helped educational endowments, private and public foundations, cultural and religious institutions, health care and insurance organizations, and high-net-worth families align their portfolios with their missions and values. We take great pride in joining forces with clients to affect positive, lasting change in their communities and the world. Thus, nurturing long-term partnerships is a cornerstone of our work philosophy. Our adaptability, commitment to transparency, and independence from outside business relationships are also hallmarks of the firm. Simply put, our clients receive customized, personal service from a deeply experienced team that puts their best interests first.

As a pioneer in the world of alternative-investments advising, we specialize in all asset classes, including hedge funds, private equity, and real assets. We also seek to lead the way in diversity, equity, and inclusion, which we strive to integrate into everything we do—from growing our firm to evaluating investment managers, choosing vendors, and forming relationships with clients. Further, we harness the full resources of our firm to deliver thoughtful, mission-aligned investing solutions to clients focused on long-term environmental, social, and governance matters.

In these ways and many others, we work in close collaboration with our clients to create, implement, and monitor investment policies and asset allocation strategies to meet their unique investment goals.

Prime Buchholz is headquartered in Portsmouth, NH with offices in Boston and Atlanta. We are proud to be 100% employee-owned.

Velcro Companies is part of a technology-driven, global organization that provides fastening solutions to solve problems in simple and surprising ways for customers around the world. With an emphasis on sustainable manufacturing practices, Velcro Companies produces an array of innovative fastening solutions for businesses and consumers located across the Americas. Headquartered in Manchester, NH, Velcro Companies began its operations in 1957 by manufacturing VELCRO® Brand hook-and-loop fasteners. Through a variety of community-oriented programs, Velcro Companies and its employees are committed to advancing education in New Hampshire and beyond, to help build the next generation of innovators and inventors.