consumer goods industries

It's too early to judge the value of requiring businesses to post warning about the adverse health effects of sugary drinks.

A group of lawmakers are again pushing to add as many as 2,500 slot machines to BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport.

By Erin Cox

Mar 2, 2015

Legislation to eliminate Maryland's tax on bottled water deserves a full-throated endorsement from beverage industry

As far back as the 1970s, the dangerous nature of plastics in our global waterways was identified. Images of turtles and birds entangled in soda six-pack liners heightened our awareness of the impact of plastic waste products on marine life. Now, there's a new danger: the accumulation of toxic chemicals in tiny plastic microbeads that are introduced into our waterways from many of the personal care products and over-the-counter drugs that we use everyday. These plastic microbeads represent a

Katie Horn and Marie Stratton know that when you cook what you love, the people will follow. Especially when what you love to cook is a collection of delicious snacks made from scratch.

In approving gas and oil exploration, Obama ignores serious environmental and economic risks posed to coastal states including Maryland

The Savage Historical Society will hold its monthly meeting on Jan. 19 at 7 p.m. at the F&M Center. The topic will be Discussion of Cemeteries.

Store closing season has arrived, driven this year by a shift in how and where consumers make purchases and the continued shrinking of a once dependable middle class customer base.

By Lorraine Mirabella

Jan 10, 2015

Laurel senior centers are offering events during January.

Picking winners among companies and currencies is too complex for the ordinary investors — they simply don't have the time and information needed to make good bets.

As the winter break comes to an end for students, this is a reminder that January starts the renovation at Patuxent Valley Middle School.

Addressing growing concerns over seafood fraud, a presidential task force called Tuesday for expanded enforcement and a new program to give consumers more information about the origins of the imported fish, crab and other seafood they eat.

By Catherine Rentz

Dec 16, 2014

Online holiday sales were expected to boost shipments to peak levels Monday for both FedEx Corp. and U.S. Postal Service, while UPS is looking for record-breaking business the Monday before Christmas.

Business is brisk this time of year for the Washington-based technology company Optoro, which processes and re-sells returned merchandise for some of the biggest retailers in the country.

Baltimore County's small businesses are getting increased financial support thanks to a recently established county-wide flexible loan program, the first recipients of which were announced by County Executive Kevin Kamenetz Oct. 16. The $1.5 million Boost Fund, which is managed by the Baltimore County Department of Economic and Workforce Development, offers loans to small, minority and women-owned businesses in the county.

The state's economy is poised for a slowdown, a Towson University economist said Monday, pointing to continued weakness in the labor market.

By Natalie Sherman

Nov 17, 2014

Web video advertising firm Videology said Monday it hired a new chief financial officer with experience preparing companies for public stock offerings, a signal the Baltimore-founded company may soon follow through with plans for an IPO.

Tracey Griffin joined Pandora Americas as chief operating officer last month. She will oversee three departments: operations, legal and information technology.

Baltimore County will have a new representative in the state-wide fight against underage drinking thanks to the recent appointment of Mike Mohler to the executive board of the Maryland Alcohol Licensing Association. Mohler, who has served as Baltimore County's chief Liquor Board administrator for the past four years, was elected to the leadership position by his peers around Maryland.

When Columbia resident Kelly Renee Armstrong was a student at Bowie State, she had several interests. Her first love was theater, but since Bowie did not have a drama department, she settled for being in campus plays while majoring in political science and minoring in Pan African studies.

Construction, some of it speculative, has returned to the industrial market around the country, and in the Baltimore region, as demand for warehouses hits developers from both sides.

What happens when Baltimore opens its doors?

More than two years after indicting a former online gambling mogul, federal prosecutors in Maryland say they are continuing to pursue his extradition on charges of running an illegal gambling business and money laundering.

More than five years into the economic recovery, many households in Maryland still aren't feeling the lift. Overall personal income — which includes wages, investment income and payments from programs such as Social Security — grew an estimated 1 percent in the second quarter of 2014 in Maryland, compared to 2.5 percent in the U.S. as a whole.

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For some small vintners, keeping business and the wine festival separate makes sense

If a soda tax can't pass in the most progressive city in America -- Berkeley, Calif. -- it can't pass anywhere, and big soda knows it.

The Natural Products Expo East 2014 in Baltimore, opening Wednesday, is billed as the largest trade show on the East Coast devoted to goods made from ingredients found in nature treated with relatively little processing. The category that the industry claims is growing more than eight percent a year includes people and pet food, diet supplements, cosmetics and grooming products.

Skilled winemakers, savvy consumers and a landmark festival define Carroll's growing wine scene

Fuchs North America is moving seasoning ingredient manufacturing company to Hampstead.

Baltimore's long and at times fraught efforts to bring gambling to the city finally succeed with the Horseshoe Casino opening on Tuesday. Observers will watch how it does in an increasingly saturated casino marketplace.

The Baltimore tech startup incubator continues to grow and shape the city's business landscape

A decision last week by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, upholding federal regulations requiring that meat labels state where the animal was born, raised and slaughtered, is a win for consumers, public health and American meat producers.

On July 16, Union Bridge teenager Autumn Lippy was named the Maryland Dairy Princess, a title that will take her across the state as she promotes the dairy industry.

Open gambling tables and slot machines were easy to find this week at the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino, now that the standing-room crowds once common to high tourist season at the world's most famous boardwalk have found other spots to visit and place their bets.

Restrictions on sales of unhealthy food and drink at county-sponsored events are necessary to promote good health

These new systems have a cool factor that makes wine geeks go nuts. But the technology is for more than just show. Implementing these systems translates into more options for customers, cost savings for restaurant owners and environmental benefits for everyone.

Howard Countians celebrating the Fourth of July at Columbia's Lakefront this year can complement classic Independence Day fare such as hot dogs and hamburgers with a low-calorie side of reduced-fat chips or a pack of vegetables ¿ and wash it all down with a Diet Coke.

Treuth & Son's 16.5 acres house a small retail store and a 20,000-square-foot abattoir where 100 bovines are processed daily and shipped to restaurants throughout the country – 315,000 pounds of cattle per week.

According to a new study of the top U.S. seafood imports, an estimated 20 to 32 percent of the wild-caught seafood crossing our borders was found to have originated from illegal sources. Other recent research has have found that up to 33 percent of seafood samples tested in the U.S. were mislabeled, substituting one species of fish for another. The inability to distinguish between legally and illegally caught fish undermines progress being made both in the U.S. and abroad, puts law-abiding

The marijuana in those pot brownies isn¿t the only thing that can potentially make consumers sick. The industry and regulators are taking a closer look at how pot-infused edibles are actually made.

Laurel Health Foods store owner Monika Price is preparing to close the store on Main Street and leave the historic district when her lease expires this month. The good news is that Laurel Health Foods, which Price's mom, Maria Lowe opened 44 years ago, won't disappear completely, but will be downscaled in a much smaller location. Price's sons, Philip and Curtis Price, own a 6,000-square-foot CrossFit gym at 14210 Cherry Lane Court, and are designing a space for the store in the gym's current

Silicon Valley software giant Oracle Corp. announced a deal Monday to buy Micros Systems for $5.3 billion, eyeing the Columbia firm for its niche supplying technology to hotels, restaurants and retailers around the world.