Business View Magazine | September 2020

91 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 2020 PAR I S HEALTHCARE L INEN SERV I CES linen management service for a local hospital in DuBois, PA. Over the next several decades Stern expanded the company through organic growth and several acquisitions, opened new locations, and by 2012, Paris Companies had become a $50 million a year operation. Today, Paris Companies is the largest, independently-owned laundry and textile service company in Pennsylvania, with three state-of-the-art processing and distribution facilities in Pennsylvania and Ohio, and over 4,000 customers in five states: Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, New Jersey, and West Virginia. All Paris Healthcare plants are accredited by the Healthcare Laundry Accreditation Council (HLAC). In the company’s DuBois plant’s soiled laundry area, employees open plastic, recyclable bags of dirty laundry, sort it, and feed it onto conveyor belts. The linens are then mechanically bagged and travel onto a rail system that eventually CEO, David Stern