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How a Louisiana company sewed up a niche in the $20 billion global market for medical textiles
Source:
theadvocate.com
- Aug 30, 2017
The story of how a tiny New Orleans medical equipment business made its way to Baton Rouge to become one of the world's largest makers of pouches that hold heart-monitoring equipment starts with a cookie company.
Jack's Cookie Co. to be exact. Leonard Carmouche was the controller there, first in Baton Rouge and then at the Charlotte, North Carolina, headquarters, until 1983 when Flowers Foods bought it. Carmouche moved back to Baton Rouge. He always had fashioned himself an entrepreneur. Now all he needed was a company.
By chance, Carmouche's brother James worked at Electro Medical Equipment, and the owner wanted to sell the New Orleans company to retire. The Carmouches and John Barton Sr., Leonard's former boss and the co-owner of Jack's, bought EME Medical. The company sold EKG machines and other cardiology equipment and supplies to hospitals and doctors in Louisiana.
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Category: General Business
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