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Czech officials try to turn cabbage patch into plant site; Creating site for Hyundai depends on wooing landowners.(News)

Automotive News Europe, November, 2005 by Frink, Lyle

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Byline: Lyle Frink

The Czech government is using cash and launching a public relations offensive as it tries to assemble a building site for a Hyundai car assembly plant.

The challenge for the central and regional governments is successfully negotiating the purchase of numerous parcels of land with 170 landowners - and a cooperative that grows cabbage on part of the site.

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It is a legacy of doing business in central Europe. Laws allow governments to force landowners to sell. But new democratic regimes are highly reluctant to enforce them because of the memories of how ...

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Automotive Industry

Czech officials try to turn cabbage patch into plant site; Creating site for Hyundai depends on wooing landowners.(News)

Automotive News Europe, November, 2005 by Frink, Lyle

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