BusinessTalk with Emma deVillier, owner of deVillier Designs
Emma deVillier was just 19 when she launched her own event-planning business. Today, six years later, she creates both impactful moments and lasting memories with weddings, showers, parties of all kin...
17 Feb 202516min
BusinessTalk with DJ Tucker, executive director at the Children’s Museum at Holyoke
DJ Tucker understands the value of the Children’s Museum at Holyoke — after all, he grew up in the city and spent a lot of time there as a kid. Today, as the museum’s executive director, he has a much...
3 Feb 202527min
BusinessTalk with John and Chris DeVoie, founders and owners of the growing chain of Hot Table panini restaurants
In 1996, BusinessWest created its Top Entrepreneur award to pay homage to this region’s rich history of entrepreneurship and to recognize those that continue that tradition. The winners for 2024 are J...
20 Jan 202519min
BusinessTalk with Canna Provisions CEO Meg Sanders
More than six years into legal cannabis sales in Massachusetts, the landscape is more challenging than ever for business operators, who are contending with a competition-driven squeeze on prices and p...
6 Jan 202522min
BusinessTalk with Kathy Martin, president and CEO of Glenmeadow
Kathy Martin crafted an impressive career in higher education before pivoting, in the fall of 2023, to the world of senior living as president and CEO of Glenmeadow, a venerable Longmeadow facility th...
23 Dec 202418min
BusinessTalk with Matt Bannister, senior vice president of Marketing and Corporate Responsibility at Holyoke-based PeoplesBank
Corporate responsibility. There’s a lot that goes into that two-word phrase — everything from writing checks to nonprofits to volunteerism within the community to the companies on a venture’s vendor l...
9 Dec 202420min
BusinessTalk with Mick Corduff
Through Mick Corduff’s long association with the Log Cabin, Delaney House, and D. Hotel Spa, the respected family of hospitality businesses in Holyoke, he has gleaned plenty about what customers want....
25 Nov 202423min
BusinessTalk with Emily Leonczyk, executive vice president and chief operating officer at the Markens Group
Association management — and, by extension, what the Markens Group does — can be a bit of a mystery, until Emily Leonczyk explains the many ways her company helps business associations and chambers o...
11 Nov 202424min
