HOPKINS PRINTING -- Recipe for Success

All Jim Hopkins has ever done is turn his garage into a quick print shop with a few thousand dollars—not even enough to buy a decent used car these days—and parlay it into a solid, regional commercial printing operation with sales in excess of $13 million in 2000. And while graphic arts companies boon and bust with the blowing winds of the economy, it's relatively smooth sailing at Hopkins Printing with its steady, measured growth. In fact, you can call Jim Hopkins 'Mr. 10 percent', which is the level of annual growth his firm has enjoyed, on average, during the past nine years.