Blue Springs, Mississippi and their Toyota plant relationship is back on again as construction will resume – and bring up to 2,000 new jobs to the town. The Associated Press reports that Toyota’s estimate is that the plant should be fully operational by the fall of 2011. This comes after construction was to have been complete and the plant running by 2010, but the onset of the economic recession in 2008 destroyed that timetable.
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The Mississippi Toyota plant will make Corollas
What once was a Prius plan for the Mississippi Toyota plant has now become a Corolla compact, says the Japanese auto giant. Toyota’s image in North The US should rise considerably as new jobs bolster the Mississippi economy. Considering that they’ve had to recall 9 million cars since October 2009 due to safety issues, Toyota will take any gains available.
Toyota plant closures in U.S. met with scorn
Toyota’s NUMMI, or the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. plant in California, shut down after severing ties with GM; workers did not take kindly to the decision. Some damage control occurred when Toyota President Akio Toyoda tried allying Toyota with Tesla Motors, but Tesla is nevertheless a niche brand, so more had to be done to satisfying the American public.
Toyota is welcome in Blue Springs, exclaimed Gov. Barbour
Regarding the re-emergence of the Mississippi Toyota plant, Gov. Haley Barbour told the AP:
“We’re delighted but not surprised. We’ve had good reason to keep our faith in them. Through a global economic crisis, Toyota kept its financial commitments to the state and to local schools, proving they are not just the world’s premier automaker but a valuable community partner also.”
Toyota’s value to Blue Springs in terms of Mississippi jobs is obvious, as is the overall affect the Mississippi Toyota plant can have on the Mississippi economy. While profits for the automaker remain shaky, this move may be the recovery sign investors have been waiting for, indicates the AP.
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