Small Business

Business confidence rose slightly in August but remains well below its level of a year ago, with a predominantly pessimistic outlook still prevailing.

Massachusetts nonprofit Entrepreneurship for All, known as EforAll, will launch a free, 12-month business accelerator program in Greater Worcester, the organization announced on Wednesday.

New Hampshire business owners Rita and Mark McCabe have opened a franchise of the national ice cream chain Sub Zero Nitrogen Ice Cream inside Worcester Public Market.

The New England Council will honor the incoming CEO of Waters Corp., Udit Batra, as well as Congressman Jim McGovern, at its annual New Englander of the Year celebration on Oct. 26.

Massachusetts has the highest unemployment rate in the country for the second month in a row, despite a small decline from June to July.

The popular Crust Bakeshop on Main Street will open a second location as soon as this fall, owner Alexis Kelleher confirmed on Wednesday.

The four or five new customers a week Sal Arcuri gains each fall when college students come back to town help his spa and salon, located just down the road from Worcester State University, earn a little extra cash.

Chizoma Nosike wouldn’t have known it a year ago, but a federal business loan may be the reason her company, Acclaim Home Health Care in Worcester, is still in operation.

Almost a dozen Central Mass. companies were named to Inc. magazine's 2020 list of the 5,000 fastest-growing companies in the world.

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc on the economy, experts at a WBJ panel on Tuesday will aim to address some key questions about current national and economic data and attempt to provide some perspective.