Business View Magazine | May 2021

33 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE MAY 2021 to know what to do.” Being part of a seasonal industry, Memphis Pool works year-round but about 15 of their 70 employees are seasonal. The high season can run from early March or April to anywhere between October and December. One of the great things about the company’s Memphis location is they are right in the middle of Arkansas, Tennessee, and Mississippi giving them the ability to travel into other areas and gain invaluable experience in different geographical settings, like the Ozark Mountains, which provides a different challenge to the relatively flat Memphis landscape. Reed explains, “It’s an engineering challenge as much as a jobsite challenge, when you’re working on the side of a hill with a sheer drop off. A lot of other companies in other places do that every day and it gets to be old hat for them but, for us, every time we take one of those on it’s a new challenge.” He says those pools are some of the MEMPHI S POOL Memphis, TN • Little Rock, AR Birmingham, AL • Baton Rouge, LA (901) 808-8868 www.poolcontractorssupply.com “Supplying pool builders with the highest quality materials for pool construction since 1953”