Small Business

Indoor performances and recreational activities such as laser tag can resume next week in Massachusetts communities with lower COVID-19 transmission rates, and many businesses will also be permitted to increase their capacities, Gov. Charlie Baker announced Tuesday.

Wednesday marks the deadline for manufacturers and other businesses to apply for the U.S. Small Business Administration’s State Trade Expansion Program grant program, the federal agency announced on Monday.

Massachusetts businesses are in line to save on workers' compensation insurance over the next year while efforts in the Legislature to expand the ability of workers to tap into those benefits for COVID-19 care appear to have hit a dead end.

Sudbury restaurateurs Reanna and Jordan Mackey, the duo behind the restaurant 29 Rustic, plan to open what the pair are calling a natural market in Stow later this fall, the business owners announced on Monday.

Three small businesses in downtown Fitchburg received loans totaling $55,000 from the North Central Massachusetts Development Corp., the development arm of the North Central Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce, the organization announced on Friday. 

This Wednesday, the WBJ hosted a live-viewing of its socially distanced 40 Under Forty awards ceremony, featuring short speeches, videos and photos of the Class of 2020 honorees.

Speakers during the event emphasized the idea that diversity and inclusion require a holistic and ongoing approach and should be a project of the entire organization.

Vaillancourt Folk Art in Sutton has named Luke Vaillancourt its new president, the chalkware and decorative ornament maker announced on Wednesday.

The median household income was up and poverty rates were down in 2019, while the rate of people without health insurance increased over the previous year, according to the latest figures from the U.S. Census Bureau.

With unemployment soaring, state lawmakers are considering ways to soften the blow from a major impending increase in the taxes employers pay toward the state's unemployment system, a jump in costs that one business group described as a "pretty staggering."