Birmingham entrepreneur buys city's Church & Stagg

Office and furniture supplier Church & Stagg has a new owner after operating in Birmingham for more than 60 years under the Church family.

Dennis Williams purchased the 70-employee business, which has office supply, furniture and printing divisions, last month.

Williams declined to disclose the purchase price, but said Church & Stagg had $25 million in sales last year and he hopes to reach $30 million by 2010 and add more employees.

Williams owned Birmingham Mailing Systems for 17 years, before selling the company to its supplier, Neopost, nearly two years ago. Before that, he was in the copier business for 16 years, he said.

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