Business Facilities In The News: Tennessee Again #1 In Auto Manufacturing Strength

Tennessee Again #1 In Auto Manufacturing Strength

By Bill Mitchell for WDEF News
Posted July 29, 2013 

The president of the United States will praise Amazon.com tomorrow for creating thousands of new jobs. He’ll speak to employees at the Enterprise South plant. But a quarter mile away is the Volkswagen plant—another success story for Chattanooga and the state of Tennessee. It makes Chattanooga the center of the automotive south.

Chattanooga’s Volkswagen plant continues to reap national awards for quality. But that’s just one of the reasons that, for the 4th year in a row, a national economic publication has been named Tennessee the Number One state in the national for Automotive Manufacturing strength.

Business Facilities says the state is a Global leader.

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