Ayer

Santander Bank will close branches in Ayer, Holliston, and Marlborough as part of its latest round of closures in Massachusetts.

Developers and brokers are using multiple strategies to bring life sciences companies out past Route 128 in Massachusetts.

A 68-unit multifamily apartment complex at 75 Groton School Road in Ayer was sold for $7.7 million.

Ayer Moving and Storage, a family-owned company since 1951, has sold its business to Platt Builders Inc. of Groton.

When Shacey Petrovic stepped down as CEO of Acton medical-device company Insulet in May for personal reasons, she left Central Massachusetts without a single public company headquartered here, traded on NASDAQ or New York Stock Exchange, with a woman as CEO.

Properties in Ayer in Harvard were purchased by Michigan produce company Riveridge Produce Marketing Inc. of Sparta, Mich. for $3 million, according to the Middlesex South Registry of Deeds and the Worcester District Registry of Deeds.

The goal of this effort is to better the health of community members in 11 communities: Ashby, Ayer, Bolton, Groton, Harvard, Lancaster, Littleton, Lunenburg, Pepperell, Shirley, and Townsend.

For the second time in less than three months, Ayer-based food manufacturer Nasoya Foods USA, LLC has been fined by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, the state organization announced Friday.

Central Massachusetts manufacturers must rise to meet demand and the challenges of the current crisis, using innovation and partners, according to a slate of experts at Worcester Business Journal's Central Mass Manufacturing Summit & Awards event Thursday at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester.

Now, in its seventh year, the Manufacturing Excellence Awards seeks to accentuate the top performers in a highly complex and varied industry.