Spring 2014

Best Sellers in Baltimore, MD By Duffy Weir

The Pleasure of Your Company

Hannah Keys Rodewald, Owner
www.thepleasureofyourcompany.com
Concept: Stationery, related gifts and custom invitations

This store is more of a studio offering custom invitations, special stationery and a selection of gifts. Hannah Keys Rodewald has curated “the best of the best” from her previous store and recently moved into a boutique-sized 1,200 square-foot shop that has more room devoted to printing than sales.

Weddings – from invitations to place cards – make up the store’s largest category. In keeping up with the times, Rodewald has been carefully “pinning” the products, storefronts, visual displays and interiors that inspired the design of the new shop on Pinterest. She has even created a technology wall for brides-to-be to illustrate through PowerPoint and Pinterest just how menu cards, party favors and place cards fit within a formal table setting. Rodewald is very excited about her new niche business that focuses on brides and people who love to entertain.

Best Sellers
Stationery Kate Spade, Crane, Smock, Rifle Paper Co. and Sugar Paper
Gifts Nora Fleming, Beatriz Ball, and Nest

Duffy Weir

Duffy Weir is the former vice president and director of Specialty Retail and Marketing at The Rouse Company in Columbia, Maryland. She is now an independent retail marketing and sponsorship consultant, and a senior writer for Specialty Retail Report. Weir travels the world searching for what she says “makes marketplaces tick.” She can be reached at Duffyllc@comcast.net or her office 410-252-8885.