Manufacturing

For 25 years, Michael Robertson has been disposing clients' chemicals and dealing with environmental contamination emergencies.

Polar Beverages has become a major player in the ballooning seltzer market as an underdog: a Worcester manufacturer family owned since its start in the 1880s. While Polar has ridden the wave of seltzer's soaring popularity, it's now facing a harder battle than ever against the carbonated beverage industry's giants.

Hologic Inc., the Marlborough medical technology company, announced it has completed the $205-million sale of its Cynosure medical aesthetics division to an affiliate of New York City investment fund.

The Massachusetts minimum wage will increase from $12 to $12.75 per hour beginning on Wednesday. In 2018, lawmakers set the minimum wage to increase annually until it reaches $15 per hour in 2023.

A cannabis retailer has paid $2 million for DeBois Auto Body, an automotive repair and auto body garage operating for more than 60 years in Worcester.

Kopin Corp., a Westborough manufacturing firm making wearable technologies, has hired a defense industry veteran as its first vice president of operations.

As long as Central Massachusetts' economic growth continues, food and drink businesses will follow.

As the CCC works through its backlog, more marijuana stores – both recreational and medical – will open statewide, and in Central Massachusetts, in particular.

We ended up getting half right and half wrong.

Cannabis, Polar Park, The Reactory, Worcester Regional Airport - Here is what we think will happen in 2020.