On this year's Valentine's Day, Mercedes-Benz celebrated a special milestone: the 20th anniversary of the day that the first customer-ready M-Class vehicle came off the assembly line at the Mercedes-Benz U.S. international, Inc. (MBUSI) facility in Alabama.
And thus was an economic powerhouse born. Last year, MBUSI produced more than 300,000 vehicles (compared to 68,000 vehicles that the facility built in 1998), and the plant is now Alabama's largest exporter and has an annual local economic impact of over $1.5 billion. Due to the global success of the vehicles produced at the facility, Daimler AG has invested a total of more than $4.5 billion in the plant -- with a $1.3 billion expansion in progress.
Jason Hoff, President and CEO of MBUSI, commented in a release, "As MBUSI celebrates 20 years of production in Alabama, we recognize that this milestone is not only ours, but the entire state's. Twenty years ago, the M-Class was only a vision. We had an idea, a blank sheet of paper and a belief in creating something exciting and successful. Today, the vision has become a reality and it was only possible through the hard work, dedication and unwavering enthusiasm of a team in both Alabama and Germany."
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