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Wis. Governor Says Foxconn Could Still Get Credits
The company needs to make changes to its deal to reflect current plans for a plant that's under construction.
December 20, 2019
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Audit: Foxconn May Not Qualify for Any Incentives
The company has yet to qualify for any tax credits related to job creation under the nearly $3 billion deal struck with Wisconsin in 2017.
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WI: Foxconn Proposed Renegotiating
According to Wisconsin's governor, it was Foxconn who first suggested renegotiating the deal "to better align the terms with the evolving project."
April 24, 2019
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Foxconn Affirms Job Committment
The Taiwanese company is facing skepticism from Wisconsin's new governor as to whether it can fulfill its job promises.
April 19, 2019
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers says he thinks it's 'unrealistic' for Foxconn Technology Group to employ 13,000 people in the state and he wants to renegotiate the contract during a news conference Wednesday, April 17, 2019, in Madison, Wisconsin. Evers told reporters that the state was working with Taiwan-based Foxconn to look at revising the original contract for the proposed facility to build liquid crystal display panels because it 'deals with a situation that no longer exists.'
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WI Wants to Renegotiate Foxconn
He says it's "unrealistic" to think the company will employ 13,000 people as originally promised.
April 18, 2019
Foxconn Technology Group announced Friday, April 12, 2019, that it will soon buy a six-story office building, center, at 1 W. Main St. on the Capitol square in Madison, Wis. It will serve as one of the company's statewide 'innovation centers' and link the Taiwanese electronics firm to UW-Madison.
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Foxconn Buys Building Across Street
The purchase is the latest in a string of buildings Foxconn has acquired.
April 15, 2019
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Foxconn WI Factory Will Done in 2020
The news came after the worldwide electronics manufacturing leader sent mixed signals earlier this year about whether it planned to suspend work in Wisconsin.
March 19, 2019
In this June 28, 2018, file photo, President Donald Trump, center, along with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, left, and Foxconn Chairman Terry Gou participate in a groundbreaking event for the new Foxconn facility in Mt. Pleasant, Wis. Foxconn Technology Group said Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2019 it is shifting the focus of its planned $10 billion Wisconsin campus away from blue-collar manufacturing to a research hub, while insisting it remains committed to creating 13,000 jobs as promised.
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Foxconn Factory Jobs Will Not Come
The bounty of blue-collar factory jobs will instead be positions for scientists and engineers.
January 31, 2019
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Foxconn Won't Manufacture in WI
Plans to build liquid crystal display panel screens are being scaled back and possibly shelved.
January 30, 2019
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Audit Faults Foxconn Credits
The first credits, worth up to $9.5 million, are part of a nearly $3 billion deal struck with the state, and could be awarded next year.
December 20, 2018
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Kimberly-Clark Doesn't Have the Votes
The bill could save 390 jobs at a plant.
November 28, 2018
Foxconn CEO Terry Gou, left, and UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank after signing a Declaration of Collaboration agreement Monday Aug. 27, 2018 at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery on the UW-Madison campus. Foxconn Technology Group announced Monday, that it will invest $100 million in engineering and innovation research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, making it one of the largest gifts in the school's history that comes as the Taiwan-based electronics giant builds a factory in southeastern Wisconsin that would be the company's first of its kind in North America.
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Foxconn Gifts $100M to UW-Madison
University Chancellor Rebecca Blank said it was the largest industry research partnership in university history.
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WI: Not Enough Votes for Plant Tax Breaks
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