Small Business

Framingham office supply retailer Staples has locked down a deal with Boston coworking space firm Workbar to put the flexible office spaces inside of Staples stores.

Webster Five Cents Savings Bank officials have promoted Robert Totaro to the position of business lending officer.

Two Worcester companies have been accessed a $30,000 penalty for violating state oil and hazardous materials cleanup regulations at their properties in the Greendale neighborhood of Worcester.

Newly launched Framingham-based Plousio has edged into the small business lending space with an online marketplace that connects business owners with over 70 direct lenders.

MassDevelopment has issued a $7,740,000 tax-exempt bond that will help build and equip a 53,000-square-foot 60 beer barrel brew house in Charlton -- the future second site for Monson-based Tree House Brewing Company.

Spaces that give tinkerers, students and entrepreneurs access to a new field of technology are asserting themselves throughout Central Mass.

The family-owned ScrubaDub car wash company with 18 sites throughout New England is celebrating 50 years and over 40 million cars washed.

The U.S. Small Business Administration has awarded $50,000 to Worcester's to Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives as part of $3.4 million in national funding.

The more Central Massachusetts firms who take the plunge and finance new investment and growth through small business loans, the stronger our economy will be.

As the state continues efforts to curb opioid addiction, pharmacy overseers recently issued reminders to drug stores on a range of procedures.