Business
10 Jan The State of Urban Manufacturing: Baltimore City Snapshot
Makers, service providers and city officials alike joined us at the new Union Collective space last month as we celebrated the release of the State of Urban Manufacturing: Baltimore study. The report, created by the Urban Manufacturing Alliance with help from Made in Baltimore, outlines...
07 Nov View the 2018 Made In Baltimore Lookbook
The first ever Made In Baltimore Lookbook offers a collection of some of the best products Baltimore City makers and manufacturers have to offer. The pages of our 2018 lookbook highlight the creative output of over 30 Baltimore City companies who, when combined, employ hundreds...
31 Oct Watch the Made In Baltimore Video
Made In Baltimore is proud to present its first ever promotional video - brought to you in collaboration with Wide Angle Productions, and a number of Baltimore City makers featured in the film. Learn why we advocate for supporting local businesses, and why so many creative entrepreneurs are choosing to stay inside the city to make their products and grow their companies.04 Sep Call For Vendors!
Made In Baltimore is excited to announce that our holiday store is returning to Station North this year for a FIVE MONTH RUN! This year's location is 20 W. North Avenue, the former site of Liam Flynn's Ale House in the North Avenue Market. We'll...
22 May Call for Entries: Baltimore’s First Ever Made in Baltimore Lookbook
Calling all Baltimore Makers! Made In Baltimore is creating Baltimore's first ever all-local product lookbook, and we want to feature your goods. This publication will be printed in the thousands and distributed to retailers and consumers throughout the Baltimore region. This is an opportunity to reach...
10 May Tips for finding a manufacturer for your product
This is a guest blog post by Rich Mokuolu, CEO at Inventaprint Inventing and producing a product – from conception to completion – is a long, but exciting and rewarding process. One of the trickiest parts of this process is finding a manufacturer to produce your...
06 Mar Life is like roller coaster so enjoy the ride: From a daycare owner teaching a lesson to the Brittle Queen of Baltimore.
Who would have ever thought that a daycare provider from the city of Baltimore would become the Brittle Queen and founder of Natasha’s Just Brittle? In the summer of 2009, I wanted to teach my daycare children a simple lesson in business fundamentals. Since cooking...
08 Dec From Side Hustle to Full-Time Business: The Journey of Entrepreneurship
We asked our November Maker of the Month, MimiDre, owner of Fly Nerd Apparel to share tidbits of her journey into entrepreneurship. Mimi started her business as a side hustle, just like many of you reading this blog post. Read below as she shares some...
30 Nov What’s a B Corporation and Why Your Company Should Consider Becoming One
By Mark Frieden, President of Crossbow Strategies In the 20th century, the business model for companies was to maximize the profits for their shareholders. There was only one reason to exist: make money. As companies targeted higher and higher quarterly profits, shareholders and company executives made more money....