Tennessee tops big deals list

By Kleinheider Posted on May 11, 2009 at 8:09 am

From the Free Press:

In a time of smaller business investment nationwide, Tennessee is leading the country in landing the biggest business deals.

Among the top 10 biggest business announcements in North America last year, two were in Tennessee, according to the annual report of such deals by Site Selection magazine.

The $1 billion Volkswagen auto assembly plant in Chattanooga announced in July and the $1.2 billion Hemlock Semiconductor Corp. polysilicon plant, which will make solar-panel components, in Clarksville, Tenn., announced in December were among only $3 billion business deals on the Site Selection list for 2008.

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Tags: alternative energy, automotive industry, economic development, Hemlock Semiconductor Corp., manufacturing, state rankings, Volkswagen Group of America  

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