New Plant Brings Hope to Manufacturing Town

The powerful global economic forces that swept away thousands of textile and tobacco jobs in Danville, Va., are now working in this small town's favor. On May 21, 2008, it became the site of Sweden-based IKEA's first furniture factory in the United States.

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