Northern Excellence

That was more than 20 years ago, and he hasn't looked back.

Today Jim Puppe is print shop supervisor at Minnkota Power Cooperative, in Grand Forks, right on the Minnesota border. In recent years this small in-plant has made a big name for itself by consistently winning major prizes in the In-Print contest, sponsored by both IPG and the International Publishing Management Association. The shop has won at least one first place award in the last three years that it entered.