By Leftlane Staff
Monday, Mar 13th, 2006 @ 8:11 am

South Korea’s Kia said today it would build its first U.S. vehicle assembly plant in West Point, Georgia. The will be designed to produce as many as 300,000 vehicles a year, creating 2,500 local jobs. “Kia has entered an aggressive growth phase in the U.S.,” Kia Chief Executive Chung Eui-sun said. Kia said it expected its sales in North America to climb 15 percent to 350,000 units in 2006 and 800,000 by 2010.

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