Business Notes: Nov. 22, 2015
White River Junction — After being vacant for eight years, the former Hartford Motors car dealership lot across the road from Hartford Town Hall is finally on its way to getting a new occupant — another automotive sales business. Midstate Auto Group, which operates automobile dealerships in Barre, Vt., is putting the finishing touches on a renovation to the former Hartford Motors building and lot at the corner of Maple Street and Pine...
Let’s Get Digital: Building a World-Class Media Event in Woodstock
When visitors to this year’s Woodstock Digital Media Festival don their Oculus Rift virtual reality headsets, they will be transported not to a gaming fantasy world, but to West Florissant Avenue in Ferguson, Mo., where they will become virtual witnesses to the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown by police officer Darren Wilson. Firsthand Ferguson is a “transmedia documentary” by graphic journalist Dan Archer. Archer will be among the...
The Big Event: Painters, Sculptors Gather at The Fells in Newbury, N.H., for Annual Artists Weekend
While their approaches vary, the painters invited to the annual artists weekend at The Fells share a mission — to portray the landscape of the early 20th-century summer estate. The work is started and finished over the course of two days, with most artists completing two to six pieces. This year’s event, July 18-19, featured 16 painters and two sculptors, most from New Hampshire. Muggy weather and a rain shower didn’t dampen their...
Fresh-Foods Era Has Campbell Soup Cooking Up New Products
To understand the ideas driving the overhaul of Campbell Soup Co., it helps to consider how the packaged food giant describes the products it makes. Instead of “formulas and processing,” company leaders now talk about “recipes and cooking.” It is a subtle verbal cue that reflects what the company behind Campbell’s soup, Pepperidge Farm cookies and SpaghettiOs said is an “extreme makeover” to prevent it from becoming irrelevant in a...
