Growth of Temple Company Prompts Closure of Retail Location
Perry Office Plus has announced their downtown Belton retail location at 214 East Central Avenue will be closing permanently at the end of 2023. Owners Lynnsay and H.B. Macey cite growth in other areas of the Temple-based company as the reason for the change.
“We’ve made several acquisitions and expanded our product lines over the last decade to support our customers’ changing needs,” said Mr. Macey. “We’ve made the difficult decision to close our Belton store in order to re-direct resources toward areas where we are experiencing the most growth and demand.”
Since 2019, the company has made 4 acquisitions of area office products and furniture distributors from Waco to Austin, growing both their product offering and customer base.
Perry Office Plus has operated the downtown Belton location since the 1970s when it was a branch of American Printing, owned by J.W. Perry. The company became Perry Office Products in the 1980s, and was sold to Debbie & Harry Macey in the 90s and shortly thereafter the name changed to Perry Office Plus to reflect the extended product offerings beyond office supplies.
Over the next two decades, the company experienced huge growth in all areas, including furniture and space planning, cleaning products, and more. Most recently, the Perry offering expanded to encompass more complete janitorial solutions – chemicals and service for kitchen warewash and industrial laundry, floor machine sales and repair, dilution control, specialized cleaning tools, and more.
The Maceys sold the company to their son and daughter-in-law when they retired at the end of 2021.
Many Belton residents are likely familiar with the Perry store because of its annual pre-packaged school supplies service that has been in place for decades. Fortunately, the Belton community has programs in place to support local families, from Belton ISD offering parents the option to pre-purchase students’ supplies each spring for the next school year, to Helping Hands Ministry’s need-based Apple Tree program that helps families get free school supplies.
“We hope the community will think of us for a lot more beyond school supplies,” Mrs. Macey said, “Like our fast, local delivery of a wide range of workplace products, and our 40-plus dedicated team members who work so hard for our customers.”
Pizazz Gifts & Décor, which is also housed in the Belton store, will be closing, too. A sale will begin soon for all remaining inventory for both operations. While copy and fax services will not be available after the store closes, Perry accountholders will still be able to place custom printing orders for delivery, including print-and-bind projects, business cards and stationery, custom stamps and nameplates, and branded promotional products and apparel.
Store Manager Jim Bridges will be moving into a new role at the Perry headquarters in Temple.
“I will miss seeing my customers as often and hearing about what’s going on around town,” he said. “But there are so many great businesses and people in downtown Belton. It’s exciting to think about how this space could be used next.”
The Maceys and Perry Office Plus would like to thank the Belton community for their patronage over the years and look forward to continuing to reciprocate this support and serve their customers long into the future.
Jim Bridges, Belton Store Manager
About Perry Office Plus
Since opening its doors in 1920 as a small print shop, Perry Office Plus has grown into the largest independent workplace solutions provider in Central Texas. The Temple, Texas-based company offers office and school essentials, custom printing, branded promotional products, complete janitorial solutions, and laundry and warewash supplies. Their workplace furniture division provides space planning, design support, project management, and professional installation for projects of any size.
