Framingham

Several major companies with operations in Central Massachusetts received the highest scores on equality from a national advocacy group for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Americans.

The Framingham-based parent of off-price retailers T.J. Maxx, Marshalls and HomeGoods reported another strong quarter Tuesday, with a 6-percent increase in sales and a 13-percent jump in diluted earnings per share.

Framingham-based internet security firm Prelert, has raised an additional $7.5 million in VC financing, it announced this week.

Toronto-based CCL Industries Inc., a global label and packaging company, said it has acquired a UK company under its Avery segment, which has operations in Framingham. Label Connections Ltd., a private company based in Cambridge, England, designs, manufactures and markets under the PCL brand, making a range of pre-die cut pressure-sensitive labels for use on professional digital printers, CCL said.

Driven by what it termed “record sales” of it its Ventricular Assist Systems, Framingham-based HeartWare International on Thursday announced its run of solid revenue performance had extended to the third quarter.

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The Marist Fathers of Boston have struggled to sell a former religious retreat center on Framingham's Pleasant Street since it was listed for sale in the spring of 2012, and after almost a year-and-a-half of working with a Waltham-based health care company, the order of priests is back at square one. Gregory Katz, an attorney with the Boston firm Ropes & Grey, who represents the Marist Fathers, said opposition from neighbors who did not want Walden Behavioral Care to construct and open an inpatient psychiatric treatment center in the residential area forced his client to abandon a purchase-and-sale agreement with Walden.

The Marist Fathers of Boston and Walden Behavioral Care of Waltham have agreed to part ways after more than a year of efforts to develop an inpatient treatment center for patients with eating disorders at the former Marist Retreat Center in Framingham.

Framingham-based VP Solutions Inc. has merged with ComputerSupport.com, a national provider of managed IT and cloud services for business based in New York City, according to a statement from the companies.

Framingham-based energy efficiency and renewable energy company Ameresco Inc. joined with local California officials and energy industry leaders last week to commemorate the completion of two landfill gas-to-energy projects (LGTE), the company said.