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Anderson Fire benefits from minority business status
December 11, 2013Tess Nacelewicz
ELKRIDGE, Md.—Anderson Fire Protection President and CEO Maria Garcia Anderson recently won an award for being an outstanding minority and woman entrepreneur. The honor comes about five years after Anderson and her husband swapped roles and she started running the company instead of him.Anderson, whose ethnic background is Hispanic and who now owns 51 percent of Anderson Fire, based here in this Baltimore suburb, said that being minority-owned has helped give the company an edge when bidding...