Mercedes moving U.S. HQ from New Jersey to Georgia

[DigitalDrifter]

I'm surprised they're just now doing this.

Mercedes moving headquarters from New Jersey to Atlanta

German luxury automobile maker Mercedes-Benz said Tuesday that it's moving its U.S. headquarters from New Jersey to Atlanta, in part to be closer to its manufacturing facility in Alabama.

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal, a Republican, said the company accepted an incentive package from the state but said he couldn't discuss the details yet. The Fulton County Development Authority met briefly Tuesday to discuss its own incentive package for Mercedes' estimated $93 million facility but provided no details.





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Mercedes moving headquarters from New Jersey to Atlanta

Updated January 7, 2015 2:36 PM
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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A worker fixes the Mercedes logo on Feb. 12, 2010, to a new car in the Daimler AG plant in Sindelfingen, Germany. Photo Credit: AP

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German luxury automobile maker Mercedes-Benz said Tuesday that it's moving its U.S. headquarters from New Jersey to Atlanta, in part to be closer to its manufacturing facility in Alabama.

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal, a Republican, said the company accepted an incentive package from the state but said he couldn't discuss the details yet. The Fulton County Development Authority met briefly Tuesday to discuss its own incentive package for Mercedes' estimated $93 million facility but provided no details.

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The decision comes after weeks of lobbying — some of it public — by New Jersey officials who sought to keep the company in Montvale, at a campus that's about a five-minute drive from BMW's North American headquarters.

About 1,000 jobs are to be moved starting in July. The company said it will move first to a temporary facility in Atlanta before moving into a new space in about two years. Deal and Georgia economic development officials would not discuss the location Mercedes is pursuing in metro Atlanta. Mercedes said it would announce more details later this month

Mercedes-Benz USA president and CEO Stephen Cannon said in a statement that the company will benefit by being closer to its growing base of customers in the Southeast as well as its port in Brunswick, Georgia, and its manufacturing facility in Alabama.

Mercedes moving headquarters from New Jersey to Atlanta - Newsday

 

[Moonglow]

Christie's fault? Didn't want to sweeten the pot?

 

[Political Junky]

I guess they can pay lower wages down there.

 

[Roadrunner]

I guess they can pay lower wages down there.

Lower cost of living there too.

 

[WinterBorn]

I guess they can pay lower wages down there.

At the corporate headquarters? Who will see lower wages? The janitors and lawncare people?

 

[Political Junky]

Other countries send their manufacturing jobs to the US, like we send those jobs to China, Mexico, etc.

 

[bucs90]

RACIST!!!!!

 

[TooTall]

I guess they can pay lower wages down there.

Lower taxes and lower rent for office space would be a contributing factor in all probability.

 

[WinterBorn]

I guess they can pay lower wages down there.

Lower taxes and lower rent for office space would be a contributing factor in all probability.

That and being closer to their manufacturing facility in Alabama.

 

[bucs90]

I guess they can pay lower wages down there.

Lower taxes and lower rent for office space would be a contributing factor in all probability.

Nope its racism!! Someone white was involved in the decision and it moved them from a blue state to a red one so its racist.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

More and more the south is replacing Detroit.

 

[jknowgood]

More and more the south is replacing Detroit.

Yes, but we won't tax the shit out of them either.

 

[WinterBorn]

More and more the south is replacing Detroit.

Yes, but we won't tax the shit out of them either.

It is also a lot easier to get people to move to Atlanta than to Detroit.

 

[bucs90]

Yep. The North and West Coast mostly sucks. Full of arrogant hipsters, thugs, shitty weather and everyone has a bad attitude.

The South owns America's future. Ironic...after decades of being made fun of by those shitholes that people are now miserable in.

 

[blastoff]

Taxes have consequences.