In Good Company

In Good Company: PedalPower Kids, which an Anne Arundel County mom started in 2018, has taught some 10,000 Maryland kids to ride a bike.

With what began as a pandemic hobby, Candace Bell took her love of candlemaking and turned it into a business.

In Good Company: Josh Levinson made Charm City Run specifically for Baltimore. For nearly 25 years, the region has loved the business back.

Baltimore Finishing Works takes on tricky restoration projects — and has a modern spin under new ownership.

“Gary the Lamp Guy’ repairs and refurbishes lamps from his house in North Baltimore, as part of the small business that he’s trying to grow.

LaQuicha Brown is the owner and operator of a chocolate-covered strawberry business with a pink shop in Federal Hill called Berries by Quicha.

How a bookstore and African cultural center has kept its footprint on North Avenue for decades.

IBT Bioservices is a contract research organization that supports pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies pushing to develop substance samples into breakthroughs.

Steve Anderson started the comic store Third Eye in Annapolis in 2008. It has expanded, and he wants it to become "America's favorite nerd store."

New owners, same wrapping paper: These Roland Park besties are keeping Shananigans Toy Shop open for the next generation.

Andrew Hatch and Jonathan Todd moved to Baltimore last year from New York City. And they brought their eye for fun gifts and beautiful home decor with them, opening Balston Mercantile in Hampden.

Big Crunch Amplifier Service & Design started in 2008 and is located on East Biddle Street in Johnston Square.

Highwire Improv manages over 100 ensembles that can be hired for improv events at companies and organizations, with a new space in in Highlandtown.

In the early 1980s, Donna De Garcia drove through the mountainside of Taxco, Mexico, searching for her vision of gold — silver.

Rick Miller is bringing Zeskind’s Millwork and Specialty Hardware into its 100th year — and back to Southwest Baltimore.

Jenny Knoepfle was inspired to start LilaPants when her kindergartener struggled to find one as an alternative to a dress.

Claudia Phillips makes therapeutic pillows filled with cherry pits, running her small business Cherapy from her Columbia apartment.

Phillip Kerrigan does furniture restoration by hand at his company in Better Waverly.

Made Plus, in business since 2021, converts plastic bottles into athletic shoes. Owner Alan Guyan is working to open a retail shop.

“In Good Company” is The Banner‘s occasional series on Maryland small-business owners.