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Article: LG Group to invest $2.5 billion in Wales; Megaproject marks Europe's largest business investment ever.
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- Business Wire
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- July 10, 1996
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CARDIFF, Wales--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 10, 1996--The Welsh Development Agency today announced that Korean multinational LG Group, one of the world's leading industrial conglomerates, will build a $2.5 billion electronics complex in Wales -- the largest foreign investment project ever undertaken in Europe.
LG Group, which has recently increased its presence in the United States and other nations, will operate facilities on a 250-acre site in Newport, South Wales.
The facility will house an LG Electronics Inc. integrated TV monitor plant and an LG Semicon Co., Ltd, wafer fabrication and assembly plant that will manufacture semiconductors. It will be LG Semicon's ...