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Toyota Plant Chief at Home in Driver's Seat

Wil James, center foreground, president of the Georgetown Toyota plant, shook hands with team members before a live webcast last month to introduce the redesigned 2012 Camry. After four years away from Georgetown, James is glad to be back at the plant.
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Lexington Herald Leader
Wil James, center foreground, president of the Georgetown Toyota plant, shook hands with team members before a live webcast last month to introduce the redesigned 2012 Camry. After four years away from Georgetown, James is glad to be back at the plant.

 When the first in the latest generation of Toyota's best-selling Camry sedans rolled off the lines in Georgetown last month, it was a sight that plant president Wil James hadn't expected to see. He had been at Georgetown more than five years earlier when planning began for the redesigned Camry, but the rising executive who had spent two decades in Georgetown was soon to be tapped to lead other Toyota sites, first in California and then in Indiana. "I went out there with the thought that one day I would be able to work my way back home," James recalled.

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