US: Chrysler spending $500m on Toledo Jeep plant
Author: Graeme Roberts | 17 November 2011
Chrysler Group plans to spend US$500m of the US$1.7bn cost of developing a new generation Jeep SUV at the Toledo assembly plant in Ohio that will build it from 2013. The automaker will add a second production shift, about 1,100 jobs, bringing total employment at the complex to over 2,800.
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