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Article: Illuminating fun; John Gill's Sun Products is on a roll with its brightly flashing balls for humans and pets. And now the Eden Prairie-based company is teeing up a golf ball that can be more easily located in dim light.(BUSINESS)(Dick Youngblood)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- April 20, 2003
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Byline: Dick Youngblood; Staff Writer
John Gill claims his business has gone to the dogs. That's actually a salutary development, given that dogs (and cats) accounted for 85 percent of the $3.5 million in sales his company recorded in 2002.
Now, however, the business also is headed for the golf course, and the result is that Gill's sales could more than double this year.
Some explanation might be useful here.
A gent with an unerring eye for market opportunities, Gill, 55, is founder of Sun Products Inc. in Eden Prairie, a company that sells brightly flashing, impact- and motion-activated toys for man and beast.
The product ...