JAPS-OLSON -- Service With a Smile

Aside from his industry service, Murphy also keeps a finger on the pulse of what is going on in the industry through his 700-employee company—a force in both direct mail and advertising niches that registered in excess of $120 million in sales in 2001. It has been a long road for Japs-Olson, one that has witnessed the company in three Minneapolis locales before setting up shop in this Twin Cities suburb.