BLOUNT COUNTY, Tenn. (WVLT) -- While much of the country deals with a struggling economy, the good news of Volkswagen coming to Chattanooga means good news for many people throughout East Tennessee.

What everyone is now waiting on will be the announcements by suppliers who come to the area that typically locate away from the main plant.

The folks in economic development in Blount County know this, and they're already planning trips to Germany to court those suppliers.

Vice President of Blount County Economic Development, Bryan Daniels says, "It's going to do a world of good for the whole Tennessee Valley that's we've got here."

Blount county will be one of several East Tennessee counties vying for the many automotive suppliers to the VW plant that haven't announced yet.

Daniels, says, "They'll locate in adjacent towns right outside of it and those adjacent towns can be an hour, hour and a half, two hours away."

Because the automaker could have located here....economic development officials have already seen some suppliers.

Daniels says, "I would say probably five to eight people."

The suppliers will make anything from wiring harnesses, starters, seats. They’ll make everything that will go to the assembly plant in Chattanooga.

That could be good news for Blount County auto supplier Denso.

Bob Booker with DENSO says, "It's not known exactly at this time how it would impact our business but this is great news for the east Tennessee economy as a whole."

For now, economic development officials plan to sell Blount County to those suppliers.

The County already has two large industrial parks and a spec building.

Daniels says, "Five hundred acres, graded and ready to go with infrastructure in place to accommodate different companies expanding ...so for Blount county we're ready to go."

But one of the County's best assets is something that has worked for Denso and they feel it will work for any supplier.

Booker says, "We firmly believe that a great deal of that success is due to the great workforce that we have here."

And Daniels says they're not wasting any time in selling the area.

"Putting together a strategy to go and see these automotive suppliers in Germany."

Daniels says they're also putting together a marketing strategy for getting those suppliers to come look at the area.

He hopes they'll be showing many of them the best that Blount County has to offer this fall when they come to do on-site visits.