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In the candy shop world, holidays are crunch time. These stores can do 20 to 30 percent of their annual sales just in the six or eight weeks leading up to Christmas. But they still differ – some do great traffic on Valentine's Day, others lean on Easter. As the days tick off until Christmas, the Business Journal spoke to several of the locally-owned candy companies to get the scoop.

Peterbrooke Chocolatier

Peterbrooke was founded in Jacksonville in 1983, and has since expanded to include more…

“What does the crowded culinary market mean for your restaurant?”

It's a question I pose, in one way or another, to almost every restaurateur or chef I interview.

Many times, those folks are in the throes of opening new restaurants, so my question (and their answer) is focused on the ways they plan to stand out from the competition. Those interviewees are almost always optimistic — they wouldn't be opening a restaurant if they didn't believe it could succeed.

But the restaurant industry is…

The Muny has named Kwofe Coleman as managing director.

Coleman previously served as the Muny’s marketing and communications director and will now work with the president and CEO, artistic director, department heads and staff to maintain a dynamic environment with an eye on fiscal growth, according to a release.

“Kwofe is an incredibly talented individual who understands both the culture inside the institution and how The Muny interacts with the St. Louis community,” said Muny President and…

Tinsel Christmas Pop-Up Bar by Craft Concepts Group is coming back for its second year, and it's bigger and better.

Craft Concepts Group, parent company of popular bars Bru Craft & Wurst and U-Bahn, will open Tinsel at 116 S. 12th St. in the Midtown Village neighborhood of Philadelphia on Thursday, Dec. 6.

The pop-up bar, when it opened last year, took over the space left vacated by Simpson's Jewelry, next to Craft Concept bar Finn McCool's. It served Christmas cocktails, holiday specialty drafts…

Several familiar names appeared among this year's Lyftie Award winners — the annual list of top destinations in Greater Baltimore for ride-sharing company Lyft.

This is the fourth year Lyft has put on the Lyfties. The awards go to locations with the most passenger drop-offs in different categories for 2018.

Click through the gallery at the top of the page to see all the winners.

Two previous list-makers and popular Fells Point spots Max's Taphouse and Barcocina again made the list this year,…