

The south has attracted and become the popular destination in North America for “large domestic and foreign direct investment projects,” Randle states.

DOITNOW GYM BAG FULL
Editor of Southern Business Development, Michael Randle writes, “For about three decades now, state and local governments in the American South have positioned themselves to become outstanding locations for both the aerospace and automotive industries … the fact that the South has captured two of the three full assembly airliner facilities operating in the United States … and twelve major automotive assembly plants in the last twenty-five years is simply astounding!” These accomplishments have established the Southeast Automotive Corridor as a huge, worldwide manufacturing leader. Similarly, the late 1900’s and early 2000’s joined the United States’ southeast region to tell a similar saga. They write that even the French explorer who founded Detroit was named Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac. As Counts, Ronson, & Spenser point out in their Sanford University article, “Steel, the Great Lakes shipping industries, and a large and growing workforce all contributed … and, the unique collection of inventors, dreamers, and designers that made the Detroit area their home.” Ransom Olds, Henry Ford, the Dodge brothers, David Buick and Walter Chrysler all started right there in Michigan. The inventors, city-governments, manpower and resources had to be ready and the fertile field was Detroit. Supporting industries flourished and economic conditions soared. The early 1900’s and Michigan united to tell America and the world an exciting saga of the American dream, indomitable spirit, pride of excellence and revolutionized industry. This city boomed in its hay-day! Yes, the height of industrialization, the excitement of innovation, and the promise of a good and bountiful life was found in Motor City. After all, why choose a certain state and city to break ground and build a manufacturing plant? Some may argue that shear economic demand brought plants like these to the Southeast but history – especially that of Tennessee – proves human vision and leadership play a key role as well. These giant manufacturers grew here in North America or were attracted here. These diamonds were the level-one and level-two suppliers to Nissan, Honda, Mercedes, BMW, Toyota, Subaru, Saturn, Volkswagen, Ford, GM and Chrysler. Climbing into purchasing leadership and later leading sales, I was afforded the privilege to travel to Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa, Michigan and of course, all parts of Tennessee.ĭiamonds tucked away in southeast places like Greenville, Athens and Lawrenceburg, Tennessee Piedmont and Anderson, South Carolina Leesburg and Muscle Shoals, Alabama and Dalton Georgia.

Undoubtedly, the automobile has fueled and accounted for more economic growth and expansion than any other invention of mankind. As janitor and errand-runner for a machine shop in Smyrna, Tennessee, I experienced the innovation as well as the intensity of the booming automotive industry.
DOITNOW GYM BAG PROFESSIONAL
My professional career began in manufacturing.
