Westborough

Rockland Trust Co. has chosen Dawn Mugford as its chief risk officer, replacing Edward Seksay who will remain as general counsel of Rockland Trust and parent company Independent Bank Corp. and as president and board chair of Rockland Trust’s affiliated charitable foundations.

Home prices continued to increase in several MetroWest towns and in Middlesex County, as Massachusetts as a whole saw a dramatic drop in the number of home sales.

Led by Worcester manufacturing tech firm Solvus Global, 19 Central Massachusetts firms made the 2022 Inc. 5000, a national list of the fastest growing companies from the New York City magazine.

New York City-based commercial real estate services firm, Newmark Group Inc., arranged $96.5 million in financing for Framingham’s Atlantic Management for its two Otis Street properties in Westborough.

An entity registered to the owners of Piece by Piece Movers of Boston has acquired a 4-acre property including a 67,000 square-foot warehouse at 241 Willard St. in Leominster for $7.2 million.

A Westborough manufacturing company plans to invest up to $1 billion for a new, 500,000-square-foot production facility it plans to open in Kentucky.

Kopin Corp. has received millions in production orders for a new display system it created for use by helicopter pilots. 

AXIOM Learning Solutions of Westborough has acquired Texas-based PatternShifts, a leadership training organization.

Central Massachusetts has a new highest-paid public company leader: Ernie Herrman, president and CEO of the TJX Cos. Inc. in Framingham.

Westborough-based Kopin Corp. has been awarded a contract to develop a new in-vehicle display imaging system for an American defense contractor.