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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowChicago-based LKQ Corp., a supplier of replacement and aftermarket automotive parts, will establish a distribution center
in Plainfield with plans to create up to 30 jobs by 2011, the company announced this morning.
LKQ said it will
invest several million dollars to lease and improve an existing 106,000-square-foot building, which will house a parts-distribution
center. The company, which has 9,600 employees nationwide, said it will begin hiring drivers, clerical staff and warehouse
workers in the first three months of next year.
“The new facility provides the space we need to support
additional inventory and grow our operations in Indiana,” LKQ CEO Joseph Holsten said in a written statement. “We
appreciate the support from the state of Indiana and the town of Plainfield.”
The Indiana Economic Development
Corp. offered LKQ up to $175,000 in performance-based tax credits and up to $56,000 in training grants based on the company’s
job-creation plans. Plainfield will consider additional property-tax abatement at the request of the Hendricks County Economic
Development Partnership.
Founded in 1998, LKQ and its Keystone Automotive division serve collision and mechanical
repair companies through 300 locations in the United States and Canada.
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