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2021 Manufacturing Excellence Awards
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.
Manufacturing Awards: United Solutions: Growing workforce, sustainability and specialties
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.
Manufacturing Awards: DetraPel is swimming beyond ‘Shark Tank’
Livia GershonZamarin, 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.
Manufacturing Awards: Redemption Rock repurposes the tipping model
In more ways than one, Redemption Rock Brewing Co., located on Shrewsbury Street in Worcester, is not like other craft breweries.
Manufacturing Awards: Quabbin Wire sees training as a key to employee longevity
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.
Manufacturing Awards: US Pack is becoming more self-sustaining
US Pack in Leominster is a woman-owned custom formulating blending and packaging company run and co-founded by its president, Svetlana Aptekman.
Manufacturing Awards: United Stretch Design filled a critical pandemic need
Zachary ComeauAround 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.
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Manufacturing Awards: Darcy Cook helped manufacturers stay open and safe
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.
- Advice
AdviceLet’s end tokenism
Bonnie J. WalkerTokenism 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.
- Advice
AdviceAlternatives to investing in the stock market
Matthew ErskineWith the recent rollercoaster ride of the stock market, the idea of alternatives to the stock market for investment has resurfaced.
- Advice
Advice10 Things I know about ... Financial coaching during COVID-19
Johan Romero LunaConfronting a world event like a global pandemic is not an easy task to handle for any person or business.
- AdviceAdvice
101: Breaking silos
Susan ShalhoubA siloed organization keeps information secret from the rest of the company, where it can’t be of benefit.
- Opinion
OpinionThe legacy of Grant Welker
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.
- Opinion
OpinionOpinion: Congress must take action on cannabis banking bill
James T. BrettMassachusetts is among a growing number of states with legalized cannabis products for both medicinal and recreational use.
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- EditorialEditorial
Editorial: Our recovering economy needs a healthy restaurant industry
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.
- Movers & Shakers
Movers & ShakersMovers & Shakers for April 26, 2021
People are on the move at Community Harvest Project, Nichols College, Country Bank and more.
