About Stuff Made in Massachusetts

Since 2016, New England Business Media has produced the young person’s Guide to Cool STUFF Made in Massachusetts. We’ll publish our 2020/21 edition of STUFF in September of 2020, and for the first time not only include the state’s manufacturers, but also features and profiles of the building trades, another critical industry group that has a great story to tell students interested in a career that offers growth, learning, high earnings and a career path.

TO BE PART OF THE 2020/21 EDITION OF STUFF, MAKE SURE YOUR COMPANY HAS A PROFILE IN PRINT AND ONLINE – CALL MARK MURRAY TODAY AT 508-755-8004 X227 OR EMAIL at mmurray@wbjournal.com

The Cool STUFF brand is a multimedia effort to educate and inspire today’s youth – and tomorrow’s workforce – about career opportunities in the manufacturing industry. The cornerstone of our efforts is an annual print magazine, distributed to middle school, high school and college students as well as adults considering a new career paths and training in manufacturing and the building trades. In order to keep the effort to educate and inform tomorrow’s workforce year round, the print publication is complemented by a regular STUFF e-newsletter as well as daily social posts and a website that pulls all the content together in one place.

Cool STUFF Made in Massachusetts highlights what makes manufacturing and the trades an attractive career option. The publication and website feature profiles of top manufacturing firms and leading building trade companies, showcasing who they are, what they make, and the different kinds of jobs available in each company. This special publication is delivered directly to students as well as through each region’s workforce centers and other manufacturing partners. It is widely distributed during Manufacturing Month events each October, and is direct mailed to the region’s leading manufacturers and building trade companies.

  • If you’re a manufacturer, construction company or in the building trades who wants to raise your profile and be part of a new recruitment/workforce development effort in Massachusetts, make sure your company has a profile in Cool STUFF. Contact Associate Publisher Mark Murray at 508-755-8004 (x227) or email at mmurray@wbjournal.com.

  • If you’re a school or workforce development organization that would like to help distribute STUFF to our target audience of tomorrow’s workforce, please contact Kris Prosser at 508-755-8004 x 286 or kprosser@wbjournal.com.

  • If you’ve got manufacturing or construction news or interesting feature ideas to share with our audience, please send it to Cool STUFF Executive Editor Brad Kane bkane@wbjournal.com.

  • If you’re a business that works closely with manufacturing and building trade clients market your services through Cool STUFF is a sure way to reach the top execs in the region’s manufacturing firms and let them know of your expertise and services.

Cool STUFF is published by New England Business Media, a regional business publishing company headquartered in Worcester, Mass. New England Business Media publishes an edition of Cool STUFF in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Connecticut. The company is also publisher of four regional business to business publications in New England – Worcester Business Journal, Hartford Business Journal, Mainebiz, and New Haven Biz. For more information on STUFF or our regional business publications, please contact Publisher Peter Stanton at pstanton@nebusinessmedia.com.