Economy

Union workers of Community Healthlink, a Worcester-based nonprofit provider of mental health and addiction services, have entered into a tentative contract agreement with parent-operator UMass Memorial Health, as it works to reopen three programs shuttered after a state inspection last year.

After 25 years in business, Worcester staple Struck Catering will shut its doors for good come Dec. 15. Struck has grown to employ approximately 60 wait and kitchen staff and bartenders.

The person chosen by Massachusetts cannabis regulators to be the next executive director of the Cannabis Control Commission has declined the position at the troubled agency.

IPG Photonics Corp., a global laser manufacturing firm headquartered in Marlborough, has acquired German firm cleanLASER for approximately $75 million. 

After a nearly 30-year career with the Johnny Appleseed Visitors' Center in Lancaster, Diane Burnette has retired from position as manager of the Fitchburg-based North Central Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce’s center, effective Monday.

Alan Seiffert has been named president and CEO of the Worcester Center for Performing Arts, the nonprofit behind The Hanover Theatre & Conservatory for the Performing Arts in Worcester. 

While Asante was climbing the corporate ladder abroad, she decided to return home to her family in Worcester. Her goal has always been to use her legal acumen to benefit local business owners, especially immigrant entrepreneurs who defied the odds to build successful legacies.

Employees at Assumption University, Fidelity Bank, and Mirick O'Connell are advancing in their careers.

Worcester Business Journal has launched its annual survey of readers for the end-of-year Economic Forecast special edition, in order to gauge business leaders' outlooks on the Central Massachusetts community in the coming year.

Gov. Maura Healey spent months clamoring for lawmakers to finish work on a sweeping jobs package she filed in March, and she wound up needing only about 60 percent of the time allotted for her review before making it law.