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Social equity cannabis companies say more support needed.

A Marlborough cannabis testing lab has closed, as a former employee described the current state of the industry as a "house of cards."

The retailer formerly known as Lumber Liquidators has found a buyer for its assets, a move that should allow one of its three Central Massachusetts locations to remain open. 

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

“This is not the outcome that any of us had hoped for,” a letter to customers on LL Flooring’s website reads.

Workers Credit Union has named Ellie Fordyce as the Littleton cooperative’s new chief people officer.

The chief technology officer of Marlborough-based IPG Photonics Corp. is heading to retirement, as the company’s new CEO looks to overcome falling stock prices and global demand issues.

Platinum Fire was founded in 2010 by Robert Pereria, who built his career in fire protection systems. In the wake of the Great Recession, businesses started to reemerge, and construction became revitalized, opening the door for new structures in need of fire protection systems.

Employees at Leominster Credit Union, MetroWest Medical Center in Framingham, and Mirick O’Connell in Worcester are making strides in their careers.

Marlborough-based IPG Photonics Corp., a global laser manufacturing company founded in a Moscow basement laboratory in 1990, has sold its remaining assets in Russia, citing the impact of ongoing sanctions related to the country’s invasion of Ukraine.