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Boston-based explosion protection company IEP Technologies has opened a facility at 417 South St. in Marlborough.
Two mixed-use developments at western end of Shrewsbury could help it recapture its old retail magic.
Most small- to medium-sized businesses are naturally focused on relatively local customer audiences.
10. Excel at relationships
If content is the lifeblood of your business, especially content you create, you want to protect your investment of time and money you put into creating it.
Whether your company is large or small, whether you're coming off a great corporate success or colossal business misstep, it's good to know ways to ramp things up and show customers and clients you're innovative and forward moving.
The Massachusetts House recently rejected a Republican-led proposal for a holiday from the state's 6.25-percent meals tax at the end of July.
Gov. Deval Patrick recently returned from a two-week-long trade trip to the Middle East. During his tenure in office, he has traveled to 13 countries to boost business interests in Massachusetts and has helped lure companies here.
EVENT: Amid the continued fallout on air travel just months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, three airlines - American Eagle, Delta and US Airways — reduced the number of flights from Worcester Regional Airport.
(FROM THE PRINT EDITION) New proposed federal regulations that would cut carbon dioxide emissions by 30 percent from 2005 levels by 2030 could be costly for the coal industry. But there could be beneficial implications for clean energy companies, and local economies in general.
Dear Editor:Your proposed restrictions on non-compete agreements in Massachusetts (Editorial, June 9) are inadequate. For example, there is a very real and serious threat to business buyers that I call “a boomerang seller.”
More than any other function of a business, the sales team needs to work effectively. If it doesn't, all other functional areas of the business have nothing to do.
With the state Legislature's approval this month, Massachusetts is poised to have the highest minimum wage of any state by 2017.
To Nate Smith, the reasons for locating a business in the South Worcester Industrial Park are many and obvious.
Education has long been called “the great equalizer” in the United States. One of its long-held, core beliefs has been that through hard work and perseverance, anyone born into any rung of the socio-economic ladder can accomplish anything.
On March 19, a judge ruled the showdown between the Massachusetts attorney general and the Town of Milton will go before the full Supreme Judicial Court in October. The dispute is over the MBTA Communities Act, which requires cities and towns near T service to adopt zoning allowing multifamily housing by right in certain areas. Some Massachusetts local governments, including Holden, have pushed back against the requirement, saying such zoning doesn't fit in their communities.
Gov. Maura Healey and Attorney General Andrea Campbell have cracked down on non-compliant communities with lawsuits and by reducing state funding, as part of a larger effort to address the statewide affordable housing crisis. The MBTA Communities Act is one of a handful of laws designed to increase housing construction by having at least one zoning district of reasonable size where multifamily housing is permitted.
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