Business Excellence Awards

About these awards

NH Business Review’s Business Excellence Awards is an annual awards program that recognizes the achievements of business owners and operators in New Hampshire.

Since 2003, NH Business Review has been honoring the imagination, industriousness, innovation and achievements of business owners and operators in New Hampshire.

The Business Excellence Awards — awarded in nine different categories — honor individuals from New Hampshire-based businesses with fewer than 100 employees and those with more than 100 employees in the following categories:

Business & Professional Services
Consumer Services
Financial Services
Healthcare
Manufacturing
Nonprofit
Real Estate & Construction
Social Equity
Technology

2025 Reception and Ceremony

Please join us to celebrate this year’s recipients and Hall of Fame inductee. This event is open to everyone and past recipients are highly encouraged to attend.

Business Excellence Awards
Thursday, October 9, 2025 | 5-8 p.m.
Grappone Conference Center
Concord, NH
Individual tickets: $90 per person, plus fees
Table of 10: $85 per person, plus fees

Event tickets

2025 Honorees

Business and Professional Services (Large): David Vicinanzo of Nixon Peabody LLP
Business and Professional Services (Small): Dirk Nadon of Lakes FM 101.5
Consumer Services (Small): Carl Fimbel of Fimbel Garage Doors
Financial Services (Large): Marcus Weeks of Meredith Village Savings Bank
Financial Services (Small): Steve Saltzman of New Hampshire Community Loan Fund
Health Care (Large): Tom Mee of North Country Healthcare
Health Care (Small): Mark S. Morris, DDS, of Merrimack Smiles
Manufacturing (Small): Evan Behrens of White Mountain Paper Company
Nonprofit (Large): Maureen Beauregard of Easterseals NH and VT
Nonprofit (Small): Michael Apfelberg of United Way of Greater Nashua
Real Estate and Construction (Large): James Hasselbeck of ReVision Energy
Real Estate and Construction (Small): Michael Turcotte of Turn Cycle Solutions
Social Equity (Large): Josephine Moran of Ledyard Financial Group
Social Equity (Small): Anthony Poore of NH Center for Justice & Equity
Technology (Large): Paige Yeater of Mainstay Technologies
Hall of Fame Recipient: Renee Plummer of Two International Group

2025 Hall of Fame Recipient:

Renee Plummer

Renee Plummer is vice president of marketing for Two International Group, a commercial real estate development company. Renee has been a driving force in transforming the former Pease Air Force Base into the flourishing business complex that is Pease International Tradeport by helping over 250 businesses find homes there.

In addition to her business success, Renee has a deep commitment to her community and has been a force for good in her work with numerous non-profit groups and other organizations. In 2005, Sen. John Sununu, R-NH, appointed her to be one of the New Hampshire representatives at the Business and Professional Women’s Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C.

Renee’s speaking engagements have included the 2005 commencement address at the University of New Hampshire’s Thompson School of Applied Science, the 2003 Business Women in Leadership Conference (also at UNH), and she was the 2016 commencement speaker at Great Bay Community College. She has also emceed countless other events, both business and charitable.

The nomination period for 2025 is now closed. Congratulations to this years honorees and thank you to those who took the time to submit a nomination.

Nominations were open through Friday, July 11, 2025

Judging criteria and nomination recommendations can be found here.

Interested in resubmitting a nomination? Please reach out to Paul Milone at paulm@yankeepub.com for more information.

Please note: We encourage people to submit one well-thought out and thorough nomination versus multiple, partial nominations for the same person. If you are asking clients or employees to submit a nomination, please consider asking them to write a letter of recommendation for your nominee and using those individual letters as supporting documents for one nomination. Multiple nominations for the same person will not increase chances of being chosen as an award recipient.