The Blass Group launches new Israeli Business Practice

Atlanta, GA, October 17, 2005 —The Blass Group, Inc., today announced the formation of an Israeli Business Practice, which will be focused on working with Israeli companies expanding their presence or coming into the US market.

Blass President, Ben Sillins, will lead the practice initially and will be accompanying Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue a Technology & Trade Mission to Israel leaving in early November. "We hope to make our Israeli Business Practice another cornerstone for our business" and, according to Sillins, they expect that practice to equal their Specialty Finance Practice in numbers of completed searches over the next 2 years.

One of the main factors for the move into this arena is the work of the American-Israel Chamber of Commerce,
Southeast Region, which is led by President Tom Glaser and Andre Schnabl, Managing Partner with Grant Thornton's Atlanta office and President for the region. The AICC has worked closely with approximately 45 Israeli companies doing business in Atlanta and hopes to attract many more to Georgia's attractive business climate.

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The Blass Group, founded in 2000, provides executive and management search services locally, regionally and throughout the United States. We focus our business on Specialty Finance, Software Salespeople and various aspects of a legal practice. Our clients include mid-sized firms to Fortune 500 companies. The Blass Group is an independently owned franchise of Management Recruiters International (MRI). As the world's largest executive search and recruitment organization, MRI enjoys a global reach of over 1,000 offices. MRI offers a broad range of state-of-the-art services and resources to enable our clients and candidates to successfully fulfill their unique goals.

For more information contact:

Ben Sillins
770.668.0000 x20
ben@theblassgroup.com