The fate of Toledo, Ohio holding onto the Jeep factory may be decided not on incentives or land acquisition, but by what happens with the supplier park.
The Detroit News reports the deciding factor on whether Jeep stays in Toledo involves the current business arrangement with the factory's supplier park. Back in 2006, the park came about when FCA US — then DaimlerChrysler — didn't want to spend too much capital on building the then-new four-door Wrangler Unlimited. Thus, it struck a deal with suppliers Mobis North America and Kuka Systems to build the body and chassis, which would then be handed off to Magna International to be painted, and then onto Jeep for final assembly. FCA US bought the paint operations from Magna in 2012, and may wish to buy the rest of the process from Mobis and Kuka.
In the meantime, city officials have presented FCA US and its CEO Sergio Marchionne with a so-called "aggressive" incentive plan to keep the Wrangler in Toledo, which includes unspecified state and local tax credits and other financial incentives to expand or build a new facility on 100 acres of land purchased and cleaned by the city for over $7 million. The plan was presented in mid-March, and FCA US is expected to make the final decision on Toledo's fate by June of this year.
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