Before Olympus Corp. announced last month its plan to locate a service and distribution center in Bartlett, a bigger medical device manufacturing company was on the hook for the town.
And it was the big fish that got away, says Roy Smith, executive director of the Greater Memphis Medical Device Council, which was working with the Bartlett Chamber of Commerce on the unnamed prospect.
“They chose not to come to Memphis because they were concerned about the availability of the workforce,” Smith said on the WKNO-TV program “Behind The Headlines.”
