Bob Riley achieved an economic coup for the state when German steel company ThyssenKrupp (now AM/NS Calvert) agreed to build a production facility in Mobile County. Alabama had been in a bidding competition with Louisiana to gain the estimated 2,700 high-paying jobs that would come with the facility.
Bob Riley, 2007
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