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Global New Hampshire

By Laura Knoy on Thursday, May 19, 2005.

Despite our small size, the Granite State exports goods all across the world and many foreign-owned companies are based right here! Today on the Exchange as a part of the Public Radio Collaboration's "Think Global" week, we?ll look at how New Hampshire businesses are tapped into a growing global marketplace. Laura's guests are Dr. Yusaf Akbar, Associate Professor of International Business at Southern New Hampshire University and author of two books on International Trade. Sean O'Kane, Commissioner for the New Hampshire Department of Resources and Economic Development and Jim Williams, Founder and President of Polyonics Westmoreland, a global leader in label and bar code technology: Polyonics was named 2005 Exporter of the Year for New Hampshire, New England and the Nation.

Click here to find out more about the Public Radio Collaboration?s "Think Global" project.

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