Re: Audi Eyes Southern Plant

[Elliott Potter <epotter@abraxis.com>]

<<       NEW YORK (AP) - Audi may join the car caravan to the South,
 preparing to spend $780 million on a new production plant, The Wall
 Street Journal reported today.
       The luxury unit of Volkswagen will create 2,500 jobs with the
 project and has narrowed its search to Alabama, Georgia, North
 Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia, the Journal reported, citing
 sources close to the situation.
       An Audi spokesman said the company is studying the United States
 and other countries for sites, but no factory would be built before
 the year 2000.
       If one is built in the Southeast, Audi would join a growing
 group of automakers creating a new network of plants there.
       The region is appealing because it offers cheap labor, a mostly
 union-free work force and big tax incentives for those setting up
 shop. General Motors and Ford have long had a presence in the
 region. Toyota and Nissan built plants there in the 1980s.
       Volkswagen will follow fellow German companies BMW and
 Mercedes-Benz, which recently established operations in South
 Carolina and Alabama. >>

Ooooooh...
If Audi puts a plant in Georgia, I might have to look into the
auto-manufacturering line of work ;)

Elliott