John Rockefeller in A Governor`s Story, by Jennifer Granholm


On Corporations: Persuaded Toyota to build plant in West Virginia

The role of Senator Jay Rockefeller in convincing Toyota to build a plant in Buffalo, West Virginia, after the state lost its textile industry owing to globalization, had become legendary. A scion of one of the world's richest business families, Rockefeller had known CEO Akio Toyoda since the 1960s, and he personally appealed to him to use his company's influence to help restore his economically wounded state. Rockefeller showed his commitment by personally tramping through wheat fields with Toyota executives in search of the perfect location. "By the time Toyota decided to make Buffalo its new home," Rockefeller said in 2006 during the plant's 10th anniversary, "I felt like a full-fledged member of that site selection team."
Source: A Governor's Story, by Jennifer Granholm, p. 72 Oct 1, 2005

The above quotations are from A Governor`s Story
The Fight for Jobs and America's Economic Future,
by Jennifer Granholm.
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