I’m pretty sure that 1997 was the year that I had the opportunity to visit Greenwood, South Carolina for my first—and last—time. I’ll never forget the event that brought me there, as it was one of the proudest moments in the life of Fujifilm, USA, as it broke ground on a new state-of-the-art paper factory in this rural SC town. By then, Fujifilm had already invested over 1 billion dollars in its Greenwood factory complex, and I couldn’t understand why it chose a town in the middle of the cotton belt, more than an hour from the nearest major airport, to set up shop. Wouldn’t it have made more sense for Fujifilm to build it in near its USA headquarters in NY State? It took a speech from S.C. Governor David Beasley to clarify the choice made by Fujifilm. I can’t quote him word for word, but at some point in the speech he screamed something very much like “And if those Yankee’s up in Rochester, NY think they’re going to win this war, they've got something coming!”
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