Before Wisconsin, Foxconn Vowed Big Spending in Brazil. Few Jobs Have Come.<br />Guilherme Gazzola said that The area where Foxconn said it would build a plant is totally abandoned,<br />At a news conference in Brazil, Foxconn officials unveiled plans to invest billions of dollars<br />and build one of the world’s biggest manufacturing hubs in the state of São Paulo.<br />With regard to the Wisconsin project, Foxconn has said it plans to build one of the<br />world’s largest manufacturing campuses in the southeastern part of the state.<br />20, 2017<br />Before the Taiwanese manufacturing giant Foxconn pledged to spend $10 billion<br />and create 13,000 jobs in Wisconsin, the company made a similar promise in Brazil.<br />In 2013, the company, which has a small office in Harrisburg, said it intended<br />to build a $30 million factory in the state that could employ 500 workers.<br />Mr. Gou made pledges; won tax breaks and government concessions;<br />and announced plans to spend billions of dollars to create tens of thousands of jobs in multiple countries.
