Chapter 2
Our Beginning: Team Members Who Began the Success Story
There is a story of two Japanese men who were driving through Georgetown, Kentucky, in 1985 and stopped to ask for directions to Cherry Blossom Way (the address of our plant). They were treated rudely and sent on their way. It would have been easy for Toyota to have gone back to Japan and said no to Kentucky. Thankfully, they did not do that. They realized that putting a plant in the United States was about breaking down racial boundaries. Diversity actually began in our plant and community before ground was even broken to build it. Georgetown would never be the same.
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