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Nissan Motor Co. will add 1,000 jobs at its Canton, MS plant, where it will build the all-new 2013 Nissan Sentra compact.

The addition of Sentra production in the fourth quarter, along with the planned November shift of the Frontier pickup truck and Xterra SUV to Canton from Nissan's operations in Smyrna, TN will increase the Mississippi plant's workforce to 4,500 by creating 1,000 jobs.

"The Canton team has proved it can compete and win on a global scale, and it is due to this that we are adding three vehicles to our production roster in Mississippi," said Bill Krueger, vice chairman at Nissan Americas.

The expansion will increase Nissan's investment to date in the 3.5-million-square-foot plant opened in 2003 to more than $2 billion.

The automaker will also produce the new Sentra at its Mexican plant in Aguascalientes. It builds the current model there now.

The Canton plant currently builds the Armada full-size SUV, Titan full-size pickup and NV commercial vans. With the addition of Frontier and Xterra production, it will serve as a hub for trucks and other body-on-frame vehicles.