Article: profile: Ex-pilot now flying high on holy orders and sales; Tony McDonough meets JOHN MANN, chief executive with Hayes & Finch.(Business)

Byline: Tony McDonough

IF YOU go to church this Sunday you may sit on a pew, kneel on a bench or sip communion wine from a chalice.

If you do it is very likely the pew, the bench, chalice and the wine will all have been made or supplied by Hayes & Finch.

Started in 1882 by William Hayes and James Finch, the company now turns over around pounds 6m a year supplying churches across the UK and, shortly, will be attempting to break into the US market.

``We supply everything a church would need, '' said chief executive John Mann. ``The furniture, candles, wine, vestments - everything you could imagine beyond the actual bricks and mortar. ''

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