Advance Business Systems history

Advance was now 72 employees strong. As a result, business continued to boom and in 1986, Advance moved to its current headquarters, a then 24,000 square foot building at 10755 York Road in Cockeysville.

With a solid foundation in the Baltimore marketplace, and increasing demand from Anne Arundel and Howard Counties, Advance opened a second location in Annapolis in 1988.

In 1990, Jeff Elkin, son of Lois and Alan, joined the company.

In a strategic, if not historic, move in 1998, Advance acquired two Baltimore branches of office-equipment supplier Monroe and Gestetner.

In 2000, Jeff was named Chief Operating Officer and has been instrumental in not only the company’s growth, but also its expansion into electronic document management.

With continued growth in both sales and staff, Advance doubled its Cockeysville headquarters in 2002 with a state of the art office addition and two level parking garage.

In 2005, after much demand from its architectural, engineering and construction customers, Advance took customers beyond standard sized office paper into the world of monochrome KIP wide format copying, printing and scanning.

Elkin told The Baltimore Sun in a 2013 interview.

In 2014, Advance saw a great need with our customers to support IT in their businesses which was the catalyst for Advance entering this arena and the construction of a state-of-the-art IT Command Center at its Cockeysville headquarters.

In September of 2018, Advance opened its third office location and state-of-the-art showroom in Rockville joining existing locations in Cockeysville, Baltimore and Frederick.

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