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Employees at companies including Cornerstone Bank, ERA Key Realty Services, and Flexcon Holdings Trust are advancing in their careers.

You can define success in myriad ways: holding your ground; uncompromising ambition; the relentless pursuit of excellence; steady as she goes; staying a step ahead. The one thing shared in common by the most-heralded and well-run companies Worcester Business Journal has chronicled over 35 years is a bit of all these things.

The most straightforward analysis of the rate reduction is it’s good news for people and businesses who are either looking to borrow or who are already paying down debt.

Central Massachusetts professionals are being hired and promoted at organizations including bankHometown, Vision Advertising, and Webster Five.

Four Central Massachusetts businesses have received a combined $449,354 from a program designed to assist small and midsize manufacturers.

Ohio-based Big Lots has filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Employees at the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce, Shepherd & Goldstein of Worcester, and Nichols College in Dudley are on the up and up.

The Massachusetts Manufacturing Pulse Survey, designed to capture trends, challenges and perspectives within the manufacturing sector, is open and accepting entries through the end of August. 

“It has been a great honor to spend the second half of my career at Webster Five,” Doyle said in the press release. “This is not a job that can be done alone, and I am lucky to have worked alongside some of the most dedicated, innovative, and passionate professionals in the industry."

Herr arrives at R.H. White following a nine-year stint as the CFO and treasurer of Hatzel & Buehler, a Delaware-based firm