Toyota Selects Mississippi for $1.3B Plant
Website: http://www.tvasites.com/

Results:
- 1) The website was used in the package proposal for the Toyota manufacturing facility, announced in February of 2007.
- 2) The $1.3 billion manufacturing plant will manufacture Toyota’s Highlander sport utility vehicle. The plant will produce up to 150,000 vehicles a year and employ up to 2,000 people.
According to staff analysis:
- 1) Every $1 invested in TVAsites.com has created $18 in value with data integration and improved efficiencies
- 2) A time savings analysis reveals a 98 percent reduction in turnaround time and labor. It takes 0.8 hour to gather information using the website, compared with 48.4 hours using a manual process for the same amount of data.
- 3) TVA’s cost studies show savings of $1,525 for each site search and data analysis compared with the manual process.
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