International Profit Associates President Invited to Serve on Two U.S. Chamber of Commerce Committees

Buffalo Grove, IL, September 12, 2005 --(PR.com)-- International Profit Associates (IPA-IBA) President Gregg M. Steinberg has been invited by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to continue to serve as a member of the Council on Small Business and on the International Policy Committee (IPC) for the 2005-2006 year.

The Council on Small Business is the primary policy-originating body for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in the area of international policy committee. It serves the function of enabling the Chamber to more fully meet the needs of small business members and to help small businesses take more effective action on legislative, regulatory and political issues. Steinberg will provide expert help and advice to assist the Chamber in promoting small business policy and providing grass roots support that will serve to advance the policy.

The International Policy committee is the primary policy-originating originating body for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in the area of international policy. This includes a review of critical choices facing the U.S. business community as Congress and the Administration consider such matters as unilateral economic sanctions, negotiation of multilateral, regional and bilateral trade agreements, China-U.S. economic relations, the World Trade Organization’s impact on U.S. commercial interests, the initiation of new efforts to further integrate the economies of the western hemisphere, the Asia-Pacific region, and Europe, changes in various U.S. trade laws and trade development programs and various "domestic" issues that bear directly on U.S. international competitiveness.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the world’s largest non-for-profit business federation representing more than 3,000,000 businesses. Their mission is to advance human progress through an economic, political and social system based on individual freedom, incentive, initiative, opportunity and responsibility.

International Profit Associates, Inc. (IPA-IBA), the largest privately-held business development company for small and medium size businesses in North America, is a leading authority on small business. With an excess of $200,000,000 in annual revenues, IPA is the 6th largest management consulting company in Chicago and the 61st largest consulting company in the world. IPA offers a wide range of proven and innovative methodologies to help businesses grow and prosper in both good economic times and bad. IPA and its related companies, including Integrated Business Analysis, Inc. (IBA), International Tax Advisors, Inc. (ITA) and IPA Advisory & Intermediary Services, LLC (IPA A&I), provide comprehensive business advisory services and tax strategies to companies in the United States, Canada and other locations worldwide. Additional information is immediately available by visiting http://www.ipa-iba.com, http://www.iba-usa.net, http://www.internationaltaxadvisors.com and http://www.aiservices.com. The Public Relations Department may be contacted at: telephone (847) 495-6786; facsimile (847) 495-6773; email pr@ipa-iba.com.

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