Retail

After years of votes to freeze unemployment insurance rates on businesses and talk from lawmakers about the need for substantial reform, two key House and Senate lawmakers on Tuesday voiced a growing desire to tackle unemployment insurance reform this session.

For 15 years, the Internet Tax Freedom Act has prohibited the federal government from forcing states to...

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Littleton-based equestrian retailer Dover Saddlery announced that it received a deficiency letter from NASDAQ.

Framingham-based office retailer Staples Inc. is seeing the impacts of store closings and weaker sales of some items, it reported today.

TJX Cos., the Framingham-based parent company of off-price retailers T.J. Maxx, Marshalls and HomeGoods, said earnings per share rose 13 percent in the quarter that began its new fiscal year.

Equestrian retailer Dover Saddlery Inc. of Littleton said filing of its financial results for its first quarter of 2013, which ended March 31, will be delayed, after an audit of its gift card program.

A mixed-use development project in Berlin may soon realize its potential with the arrival of a new tenant and other development prospects within reach.

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Sales at the stores of Framingham-based TJX Cos. continued to rise in April, as the company reported a sales increase of 9 percent over last year, to $2 billion.