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“The Millennium Press story demonstrates how small businesses can persevere when faced with extraordinary challenges.”
Don’t Stop the Presses
To say the Sullivans started small with their venture would be a huge understatement.
Indeed, they launched their business in a garage — and it wasn’t even their own garage.
“Our house didn’t have one, so we used Kelly’s brother’s garage,” said Jim, a printer by trade who was working at a shop in Holyoke at the time, but started printing short runs of specialty forms for different customers at night and on weekends, a part-time job that quickly became full-time.
Indeed, the Sullivans, who quickly became partners in the ven- ture, said they recognized a growing need for printed forms that could be produced inexpensively and quickly. With an Apple com-
Jim and Kelly Sullivan, center, with the team at Millennium Press.
Photo by Paul Schnaittacher
puter, a two-color press, and a collator that would put the forms together — Kelly would handle the desktop publishing, and Jim ran the printing press — they started adding customers and achieving a foothold in the competitive printing business.
Over the course of the next 30 years, they would continue to grow the company, establishing a full-service, one-stop printing and mailing business operating out of a 20,000-square-foot building in the Agawam Industrial Park that they would eventually purchase and expand.
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