Small Business

When reached for comment Wednesday, BirchTree co-owners and spouses Avra Hoffman and Robert Fecteau implied they are selling the business, but they wouldn't confirm officially until after the Worcester License Commission hearing.

The honors include Family Owned Business of the Year, Minority Owned Business of the Year, Women Owned Business of the Year, Young Entrepreneur of the Year, and Small Manufacturer of the Year.

Sonny Phengsomphone opened the business in the memory of his sister, who died in a Thailand refugee camp while migrating to the U.S., and in honor of his 62-year-old mother.

After a streak of above-average business confidence, Central Massachusetts business owners’ optimism slipped in March.

Advocates for employee-owned businesses in Massachusetts are pushing lawmakers to advance a suite of policy proposals that they say would provide those organizations with access to capital, technical assistance, and give workers at conventional corporations greater governance power.

When she opened her first women’s healthcare boutique more than 20 years ago, Walsh-Aframe’s goal was to support women going through one of the most physically and emotionally challenging times in their lives as they navigated the trauma of being breast cancer survivors.

Worcester has experienced Boston-sized population growth over the last decades, creating not only major opportunities for businesses but urban growing pains along with it.

Isabella Casillas Guzman, administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration, announced additional deferment of principal loans and interest payments for those businesses who received relief under the COVID Economic Injury Disaster Loan program.

The bar, located on Millbury St., is to be sold by Vincent Hemmeter to Mara and Frank Inangelo, the latter a longtime employee of Vincent’s bar in Worcester. 

After closing its location on Grove Street, Lucky’s Cafe in Worcester appears to have found a new spot to do business.