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BARTLETT , TN , October 28, 1999 – American Paper Optics,
Inc. announces the selection of owner, John Jerit, as one of Entrepreneur
Magazine’s up-and-coming young millionaires. With a
nationwide circulation of five hundred thousand, the small business
magazine ranked Jerit among the nation’s rising entrepreneurial
stars with sales exceeding five million dollars last year.
In the November edition of Entrepreneur, scheduled
to hit newsstands this week, 37-year-old Jerit attributes his
success to staying in the public eye with aggressive marketing
and by doing his “homework.” Since 1990, the 3D aficionado
has transformed a “silly” paper novelty business into
a 3D-eyeglass empire with the worldwide distribution of 300 million
3D glasses for promotions involving movies, television, web sites,
theme park attractions, laser light shows, and fireworks displays.
Jerit’s 3D “vision” has changed the way millions
of people view the world--one pair of 3D glasses at a time. Since
1990, American Paper Optics has become the world’s leading
supplier of paper 3D glasses. Jerit, named “Small Business
Executive of the Year” in 1998 by the Memphis Business Journal,
expects to sell over 60 million paper 3D glasses this year.
American Paper Optics received national notoriety in 1991 as
the manufacturer of 11 million 3D glasses for the Nightmare
on Elm Street sequel, Freddy’s Dead: The Final
Nightmare. Jerit soon followed up by producing eight million
glasses for a television promotion of Fox’s Married
with Children and Revenge of the Nerds IV.
In 1995, Jerit introduced a retail phenomenon into the mainstream
marketplace with Holiday Specs, 3D Christmas Glasses. These special
paper eyeglasses allow the wearer to see holiday messages surrounding
bright points of light. The line has sold over three million pairs
to a variety of retail stores ranging from gift and greeting card
shops to floral and seasonal specialty stores.
In the summer of 1997, Jerit and American Paper Optics provided
20 million 3D glasses for Televisa, a major network television
station, for a month-long 3D broadcast in Mexico City. Last year
Jerit met the challenge of producing more than 21 million 3D glasses
for the international distribution of National Geographic magazine
which featured Mars Pathfinder and Titanic 3D
images. In October 1999, Jerit overcame a seemingly impossible
deadline by delivering more than five million 3D viewers in less
than three weeks for BirthdayExpress.com, an Internet shopping
service on the worldwide web.
For more information about John Jerit and American Paper Optics,
please contact:
Lori Southall – Sales & Marketing Director
American Paper Optics, Inc.
3080 Bartlett Corporate Drive
Bartlett , TN 38133
Phone: 1-800-767-8427
Fax: 901-381-1517
email: sales@3dglassesonline.com
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