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Article: San Antonio Express-News David Hendricks Column.
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- November 5, 2003
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By David Hendricks, San Antonio Express-News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Nov. 5--The question of where Toyota suppliers will locate will be answered over years of time and across hundreds of miles, even into Mexico.
Even Georgetown, Ky., which has had a Toyota assembly plant since 1988 -- Toyota's largest in North America -- still is trying to attract suppliers with a new industrial park offering land at affordable prices.
To suppliers, the bottom line in deciding how to serve the San Antonio plant will be the total cost of production and transportation, reports Harold Hunt, an associate research scientist at the Texas A&M ...