Business

Weeks after Guinness filed plans to shutter its Baltimore County manufacturing plant, Flying Dog Brewery this week announced it will close its Frederick facility. But the departures are more indicative of industry trends than of a brewery problem in the state, say industry experts. Guinness’s parent company, Diageo North America, plans to close its Baltimore County site on June 9, according to a March filing with the Maryland Department of Labor.

Montgomery County native Josh Harris is closing in on a purchase of the Washington Commanders. His group of limited partners includes a slate of businessmen who also have deep ties to the suburban Maryland county, including Danaher Corp. co-founder and Glenstone owner Mitchell Rales, serial investor Mark Ein and Michael Sapir, CEO of Bethesda’s ProShares. Given all those deep-pocketed local connections, is the county interested in getting in the game for the Commanders’ next stadium?

If your workplace was a fictional company or TV show, which one would it be? That’s one of the questions we asked this year’s Best Places to Work winning companies as part of our Mad Libs-themed special section. We got a variety of answers but the most popular response was “Cheers,” a.k.a. the place where everybody knows your name. Perhaps it’s not surprising that amid all the uncertainty of the last few years, employees are giving high marks to organizations that make an effort to know them personally rather than just seeing them as another line on a spreadsheet.

The facility, located on Greenspring Avenue, will include several treatment and exam rooms, centralizing the hospital’s oncology services, according to a news release. Sinai Hospital is part of the LifeBridge Health system.

Frederick’s Flying Dog Brewery is being sold to a New York company whose brands include Saranac and Utica Club, the companies announced Monday. The financial terms were not disclosed. The new owner, Utica-based FX Matt Brewing Co., was founded in 1888 and is the fourth-oldest family brewery in the United States, Flying Dog said in a press release.

Bethesda-based property technology firm Brivo Inc. has landed a $92 million equity investment from the multi-billion-dollar Tokyo security company Secom Co. Ltd. The funding deal, announced Wednesday, comes less than a year after Brivo’s plans to go public through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company fell apart amid a downturn in the financial markets that caused many such deals to collapse. That deal, which was terminated in August, was expected to net Brivo about $304 million.

Giant Food will open a new store at a Baltimore County retail center, taking over an anchor space from another grocer that’s set to close this summer. Landover-based Giant will open at Perring Plaza in Parkville in the second quarter of 2024 after renovations to the 55,000-square-foot space, said Felis Andrade, a spokeswoman for Giant, on Monday. The store will replace a Shoppers, which has been an anchor at the center for years but announced in early Mary that it was closing July 15 and laying off 49 workers.