Yank under new management
10-31-2004, 01:22 PM
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Yank under new management I got an e-mail from Mike Senia, owner of Yank. I wanted to pass it on...
"Hello from Mike @ Yank,
As many of you may already know, Yank has moved its manufacturing facility to Sparks Nevada. This was done for many reasons. To increase manufacturing capacity. To increase manfacturing quality. And finally, to add staff size and expertise to our operation, thereby greatly increasing our ability to service the end customer.
The move didn't come without some significant growing pains: constant delays, moving across the country, and a dead-beat potential investor made the past several months tough for all of us. That was then. NOW, we are open with our new facility and we are ready to rock & roll and get down to servicing ALL your needs.
Our new director of operations is Dave Myers. He has many years in the converter manufacturing industry and has designed and built the converter equipment that General Motors uses in their R&D labs (welders, balancers, testers). The addition of Dave as director of operations will allow Yank's great quality to even be surpassed! Please call us at 775-826-9955 or e-mail us (dave@converter.cc) or (mike@converter.cc) and let us help you in any way we can.
As a bit of history, Yank Converters was opened in the late 80s to design and build converter combinations that, up to that point, did not exist in the motorsports field. Our niche was created with the help and partnership with General Motors Corp. As a supplier to their GM Motorsports teams, we had a very intense learing curve in converter design profiles. Thousands of hours of R&D and dyno testing with GM allowed Yank converters to offer performance that was unequalled by any other company in the industry.
In the 90s, we began to branch from building pure race converters, to offering street/strip versions for the growing EFI market. The results were spectacular to say the least. We went from selling 300 converters a year in 1999 to over 1600 units in 2003. But the explosive growth came at a price. Customer service. Our quality never wavered, but with our limited staff, more and more time was spent building converters and not answering the phones or e-mails. There just weren't enough hours in the day to do it all.
Our new location and new management is changing this! By doubling our staff and manufacturing capacity, Yank has never been in a better position to take our quality and customer service to an even high level of performance. We will never stay the same. We will only get better from this point on with new and exciting converters and customer service. This is not just lip service, this is a promise.
We will monitor this forum, so please chime in and let us know how you feel.
Thanks for your time,
Mike Senia"
"Hello from Mike @ Yank,
As many of you may already know, Yank has moved its manufacturing facility to Sparks Nevada. This was done for many reasons. To increase manufacturing capacity. To increase manfacturing quality. And finally, to add staff size and expertise to our operation, thereby greatly increasing our ability to service the end customer.
The move didn't come without some significant growing pains: constant delays, moving across the country, and a dead-beat potential investor made the past several months tough for all of us. That was then. NOW, we are open with our new facility and we are ready to rock & roll and get down to servicing ALL your needs.
Our new director of operations is Dave Myers. He has many years in the converter manufacturing industry and has designed and built the converter equipment that General Motors uses in their R&D labs (welders, balancers, testers). The addition of Dave as director of operations will allow Yank's great quality to even be surpassed! Please call us at 775-826-9955 or e-mail us (dave@converter.cc) or (mike@converter.cc) and let us help you in any way we can.
As a bit of history, Yank Converters was opened in the late 80s to design and build converter combinations that, up to that point, did not exist in the motorsports field. Our niche was created with the help and partnership with General Motors Corp. As a supplier to their GM Motorsports teams, we had a very intense learing curve in converter design profiles. Thousands of hours of R&D and dyno testing with GM allowed Yank converters to offer performance that was unequalled by any other company in the industry.
In the 90s, we began to branch from building pure race converters, to offering street/strip versions for the growing EFI market. The results were spectacular to say the least. We went from selling 300 converters a year in 1999 to over 1600 units in 2003. But the explosive growth came at a price. Customer service. Our quality never wavered, but with our limited staff, more and more time was spent building converters and not answering the phones or e-mails. There just weren't enough hours in the day to do it all.
Our new location and new management is changing this! By doubling our staff and manufacturing capacity, Yank has never been in a better position to take our quality and customer service to an even high level of performance. We will never stay the same. We will only get better from this point on with new and exciting converters and customer service. This is not just lip service, this is a promise.
We will monitor this forum, so please chime in and let us know how you feel.
Thanks for your time,
Mike Senia"
