A NEW service that helps businesses reduce operating costs has arrived in Worcestershire.

Ian Kershaw has recently joined Expense Reduction Analysts, a company that specialises in reducing the overheads of businesses on a no-savings no-fee basis.

Mr Kershaw will be concentrating his efforts in Worcestershire but will bring the national and international experience and expertise of the company to assist businesses in the region.

"All the news coming out of the Department for Trade and Industry and the Institute of Directors so far this year has been one of doom and gloom," said Mr Kershaw.

"Several profit warnings and pressure on margins has caused companies to continually re-examine their cost base.

"Our service is to examine these costs in minute detail, spending much more time than the usual business can afford to do.

"We also aggregate our purchasing control to obtain savings for our clients not normally available by conventional channels.

"Even though I will be home-based I can, at any time, draw on the combined skills and knowledge base of the other 120 consultants nationwide should the project require to provide our clients with the same end result - a lowering of their overheads without any loss in service or quality. "

For more information click on www.erauk.net.