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It’s difficult to overstate the importance the manufacturing industry plays in the Central Massachusetts economy. At nearly $7 billion in annual gross domestic product, it is the region’s largest industry by economic output, accounting for 14% of the local business community’s GDP. Since the American Industrial Revolution, the Central Massachusetts region has been built on manufacturing, and that seems unlikely to change any time in the near future.
Founded in 1919 by Canadian immigrant Eugene Tourigny, the company – then known as United Comb & Novelty Co. – originally manufactured small items like combs and buttons, sourced from tortoise shells and cattle horns.
Zamarin, founder and CEO of Framingham-based DetraPel Inc., has been an entrepreneur for most of his life. Zamarin started selling popsicles in his neighborhood at about 5 years old and later went on to sell watches and headphones at flea markets.
In more ways than one, Redemption Rock Brewing Co., located on Shrewsbury Street in Worcester, is not like other craft breweries.
Co-founded in 1975 by Paul Engel, who shortly thereafter went on to assume full ownership, Quabbin Wire & Cable Co., Inc. in Ware specializes in producing wires and cables for a wide array of applications.
US Pack in Leominster is a woman-owned custom formulating blending and packaging company run and co-founded by its president, Svetlana Aptekman.
Around this time last year, America’s manufacturing industry was thrust into the fight against the deadliest pandemic in a century, including a little-known Hudson maker of elastic products.
Darcy Cook, president and owner of Safety Trainers, was working as a physical therapist in the late 1990s when her father suggested she help her brothers, two firefighters in Auburn who ran a side business facilitating CPR and first aid training classes.
Tokenism is the practice of making only a perfunctory or symbolic effort to do a particular thing, especially by recruiting a small number of people from underrepresented groups in order to give the appearance of gender or racial equality within a workforce.
With the recent rollercoaster ride of the stock market, the idea of alternatives to the stock market for investment has resurfaced.
Confronting a world event like a global pandemic is not an easy task to handle for any person or business.
A siloed organization keeps information secret from the rest of the company, where it can’t be of benefit.
On May 3, WBJ readers will no longer enjoy the privilege of stories from News Editor Grant Welker. That benefit will belong to Boston Business Journal, as Grant returns to the city where he lived before Worcester.
Massachusetts is among a growing number of states with legalized cannabis products for both medicinal and recreational use.
The hospitality industry is filled with small businesses who often employ a handful of people and are important to their communities, offering high-profile and well-known locations for people to gather and rally around.
People are on the move at Community Harvest Project, Nichols College, Country Bank and more.
In April 2020 during the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States lost 20.5 million jobs, skyrocketing unemployment to 14.7%, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. During the next few years/years, reflecting a tight labor market, wages increased while the remote workforce more than tripled. Today, with some employers making a renewed push for employees to be back in the office, many current and potential employees still want the flexibility to work from home, along with other benefits.
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Worcester Business Journal presents a special commemorative edition celebrating the 300th anniversary of the city of Worcester. This landmark publication covers the city and region’s rich history of growth and innovation.
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