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vehicles, Nissan detailed a $118-million expansion of Canton’s production facilities to manufacture the LCVs. “LCVs will become a major contributor to the future success of Nissan in North America,” said Bill Krueger, senior vice president, Manufacturing, Purchasing & Supply Chain Management, and Total Customer Satisfaction, Nissan North America. “It is a tribute to our employees in Canton that it will be the manufacturing hub for these important new products, key to our sustainable growth in the U.S.” Rankin County is a three-hour drive from the $1.3-billion Toyota assembly plant in northeast Mississippi, scheduled to open in 2010. The fact that Toyota has chosen to build its strong-selling Prius hybrid in Mississippi for national consumption is of particular note and a testament to the company’s confidence in the state’s Nissan’s Mississippi facility has been labeled as key to the company’s new light commercial vehicle strategy. business climate and quality of its workforce. The Prius will be Toyota’s second hybrid model to be built in the U.S., the first being the CamryHybrid, a Kentucky-built product. Rankin County is one of the fastest-growing, highest-income counties in Mississippi and ideally suited as a home for a major automotive m a n u f a c t u re r and its vendors and suppliers. Two industrial parks with infrastructure in place, a large SOUTH CAROLINA skilled labor Location, workforce, pool, immediate educational infrastructure, resources and transportation partnerships for and training customized drive our industrial workforce trainopportunities. ing, a great quality of life and a truly pro-busiGo to ness atmosphere www.laurenscounty.org are what the let us help you get there. county offers. Tom Troxler, Executive Director of Rankin First, summaLAURENS COUNTY rizes the comDevelopment Corporation 864.939.0580 petitive advantage of his Laurens County #1501 at www.BusinessFacilities.com county for the automotive industry in these simple words: “We’re wellconnected.” Although his statement refers to so many good and positive things in Rankin County, the primary reference is to location. Less than a day’s drive to every major auto manufacturing facility in the Southeastern and Southwestern U.S., Rankin County is served by I20, a major east/west interstate artery easily connecting Rankin County with virtually all the major Southern metropolitan areas. To the east, I-20 provides access to Meridian, MS; Birmingham, AL; Atlanta, GA; Columbia, SC, and terminates in Florence, SC with Interstate 95, the major north-south trade route in the Eastern U.S. To the west from Jackson, I-20 connects with Dallas, TX and El Paso, TX where I-20 terminates with Interstate 10. Rankin County also has quick and easy access via Interstate Highway 55 to Memphis, TN; St. Louis, MO; and Chicago, IL to the north and to Baton Rouge, LA to the South where it connects with Interstate 65 and Interstate 10 to New Orleans, LA. U.S. 80, a four-lane highway that travels through Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, and Georgia, also serves Rankin County. Two other U.S. highways, 49 and 51, connect Rankin County to the Gulf of Mexico and north to Arkansas. A-6 A S P E C I A L A D V E RT I S I N G S E C T I O N O F B U S I N E S S FA C I L I T I E S A N D WA R D ’ S A U T O W O R L D PHOTO CREDIT: COURTESY OF NISSAN MISSISSIPPI http://www.laurenscounty.org http://www.laurenscounty.org http://www.BusinessFacilities.com

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Business Facilities - February 2009

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