POSTED: Wednesday, April 14th, 2009

KJS Marketing is pleased to announce the addition of Mike Galway as Sales Engineer for the southern Chicago Metro                            Area.

Mike comes to us from Avnet and has over 20 years of marketing electronic product to customers in the Chicago area. He will be assuming territory management duties for KJS's “South Metro” area which is all geography south of IL90 (including the city of Chicago itself) down to and including Champaign, IL.

A word from KJS on the economics affecting our country and our region:

KJS Marketing has been around since 1972 so we've weathered many storms-- be they cultural, political, business related or economic. In the midst of the largest economic calamity of our generation, KJS is still growing as is evidenced by the addition of Mike Galway. Rather than retreat into a position of self-preservation, we feel that it is time to re-assert ourselves and strike while the proverbial iron is hot by putting more feet on the street. Economic turmoil always brings opportunity and we spend every working day looking for ways to turn those opportunities into business for our principals. KJS is cash rich, debt free, privately held and prepared to reinvest and expand our business.

The political/economic climate has changed over the past two years and we know that more changes are coming. F22 has been canceled. The presidential helicopter appears to face imminent cancelation. The USAF Tanker program has been delayed beyond anyone's ability to forecast a solution. 787 and A380 are interminably delayed. Still, America is a great nation and the Midwest has always been a source of stability for the nation including during the Great Depression. What many people call “flyover territory” has actually acted as a buffer for the wild boom and bust cycles generally seen on the east and west coasts. We certainly have our own subset of problems with which to deal but we also have a great customer base that is replete with creative and industrious people. We intend to work with them and our principals to build great products and do our small part to return economic prosperity to our region and to the nation.