The Maryland Chamber announced its Small Business of the Year Award Winners Friday, during an awards luncheon at the Hilton Baltimore BWI Airport Hotel. This year’s winners are:

• Small Business of the Year - 1-5 Employees: impactHR
• Small Business of the Year - 6-50 Employees: Choptank Transport
• Small Business of the Year - 51-200 Employees: TIE: MEDEX Global Group and Specialized Engineering
• Partner in Business Award: Maryland Works

View the complete press release here. We’ll post some photos from the event soon.

Special thanks to Verizon Wireless and HarVest Bank of Maryland for sponsoring the awards luncheon. Also, thanks to this years judges: Dave Callahan, Executive Editor of Baltimore SmartCEO; Cliff Chiet, Publisher of The Gazette of Politics & Business; John Dinkel, President and Publisher of the Baltimore Business Journal; and Christopher A. Eddings, Publisher and President of The Daily Record.