Released on = January 9, 2006, 2:20 pm

Press Release Author = MBA Consultants

Industry = Small Business

Press Release Summary = Local businessman Steve Willinger wants to help these
business owners keep the skilled jobs in America and their businesses in our local
communities.

Press Release Body = Monday, January 9, 2006
CONTACT:
For Immediate Release Steven
Willinger President
MBA Consultants
(423) 797-0355

New business focuses on keeping local jobs from moving overseas

BRISTOL, Tenn.- Many skilled craftsman working in numerous local machine shops and
manufacturing facilities in the region have worked hard for decades to stay in
business and contribute to their local communities, but more and more their jobs are
moving overseas where labor and the cost of doing business is considerably cheaper.

Machine shops or contract job shops are part of our regions local heritage. Most
are family owned and have been in business for decades, but now rather than focusing
on their skill sets these trades people are trying to figure out how to handle the
uncertain future.

Local businessman Steve Willinger wants to help these business owners keep the
skilled jobs in America and their businesses in our local communities. So Willinger
is using his 20+ years of capital equipment and marketing experience to provide
marketing know-how to local machine shops and small manufacturers in the Tri-Cities.
Willinger is the first in the area to focus specifically on manufacturing and how
to help them regain market share and growth.

"The people who run these machine shops are very skilled at what they do. They are
the best of the best. However, their futures are looking less bright. I want to
help machine shops market themselves, let our local region and even the rest of the
world know what our shops can do and why it is so important to buy from our local
folks instead of sending business overseas," Willinger said.

Across this country, there are too many examples of jobs moving overseas, machine
shops are losing business and employees because their customers decided to have
parts made using cheaper labor. Experts are forecasting this trend to stay the
course and the machine shops will continue to face tough and unfair global
competition from cheap labor and unethical business practices.

The outlook is challenging, but there are things that we can do now to actually
increase business and prosper. With Willinger's working knowledge and expertise in
the metal working industry, he will focus on the regional manufacturers contracting
work offshore and encourage them to re-evaluate and afford our local shops a
competitive and fair opportunity to compete.



For more information on Willinger and the services he has to offer simply visit
http://www.mbaconsultants.org. Willinger can also be reached by e-mail at
steven@mbaconultants.org or (423) 797-0355.



Web Site = http://www.mbaconsultants.org

Contact Details = Steve Willinger||123 Douglas Lane||Bristol ,
37620||$$country||||423-797-0355||steven@mbaconsultants.org||http://www.mbaconsultants.org