Paris history

Dominic P. Toscani, a lawyer, became its president in 1972.

Dave joined the business in 1973, and his father taught him exactly what he had learned over the years: Customer service is paramount, and your reputation is everything.

The company had net income of $34,000 that fiscal year (the year ended September 30, 1982) on net sales of $10.5 million and had a long-term debt of $4 million.

In March 1986 the company went public, securing net proceeds of $4 million by selling nearly one-fifth of the outstanding shares of common stock at $7.50 a share.

In 1987 Paris Business Forms opened a division to sell turnkey, nonfranchised units of a quick-print and desktop-publishing operation known as Fast Forms Plus.

By the end of fiscal 1989 Paris was selling to about 1,700 distributors.

A custom forms plant was leased in Fort Worth, Texas in 1990, and the company also acquired a separate Fort Worth building the same year to produce stock computer paper for sale to customers in the Midwest, Southwest, and Mexico.

The firm also had added self-mailers to its product line and was beginning to sell directly to retailers, such as Office Depot, Inc., which took about one-third of its stock computer paper in 1993.

In fiscal 1994 Paris Business Forms returned to the black but earned only $429,000 on sales of $57.9 million.

The holding company, which became Paris Corporation in January 1996, retained the Burlington plant and cash and near-cash investments.

The 80,000-seat Stade de France was built for the 1998 FIFA World Cup and is used for football and rugby union, and is used annually for French rugby team's home matches of the Six Nations Championship.

At the 1999 census, 47.5% of the 5,089,170 people in employment in the Paris metropolitan area (including commuter belt) worked in the city of Paris and the Hauts-de-Seine département, while only 31.5% worked exclusively in Paris fact.