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Development training focus Wed. meeting
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| By: ADAM NORTHAM, DAILY LEADER Staff Writer |
November 03, 2009 |
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Industrial recruitment has slowed considerably during the economic recession, but Southwest Mississippi's economic development leaders are keeping their handlers sharp.
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Southwest Mississippi Partnership President Cliff Brumfield on Monday invited Lincoln County supervisors to the Southwest Mississippi Economic Development Industrial Recruitment Training seminar, which will be held Wednesday at Entergy's Jackson headquarters. The seminar aims to train elected and community leaders on how to escort industrial captains when they visit potential sites for expansion.
"We don't want to be like the dog that finally caught the car and didn't know what to do with it," Brumfield said. "We know what to do with it. We've made some great progress, and we believe as the economy improves that we will have more prospects."
District Four Supervisor Doug Moak plans to attend the seminar. Other supervisors are considering it.
Brumfield said the Partnership, an 11-county federation that pools its resources to recruit industries as a region, is stressing the training while prospect visits are few. He said large industries have not visited Southwest Mississippi in "quite some time," and since then many of the representatives on both sides have changed. The last site selection visit to Linbrook Business Park in Brookhaven came in 2008, while the Partnership region was looked at earlier in 2009, he said.
The timing is appropriate to train and retrain the site selection chauffeurs, Brumfield said.
"All this work will culminate in the location of a new business only if, when they come to call, they're handled as professionally as possible," he said.
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