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Tom Spika, president of Spika Welding & Manufacturing Inc. of Lewistown, MT featured in Wall Street Journal Article on Jobs..

Tom Spika, president of Spika Welding & Manufacturing Inc. http://www.spikawelding.com/ , is also holding his firm’s headcount steady. The Lewistown, Mont., concern launched in 2001 and grew to 30 employees, but today it has about 22 staffers because two years ago sales of its aircraft-maintenance stands started to decline.

Mr. Spika says his business could rebound by expanding into overseas markets. He sees opportunity in South America and Asia but moving into those regions has been a challenge due to import and export restrictions and tariffs from the U.S. and foreign governments.

"There’s a lot of hoop jumping in exports," he says. "Small businesses don’t have the depth of administrative resources to keep up with the red tape of doing things."

By EMILY MALTBY

Full Story: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904836104576558892227406556.html

(Many thanks to Steve Holland for bringing this to our attention.)

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