A meeting today of Volkswagen AG’s management board yielded no decision on where to build a possible U.S. plant, a facility for which three states are in contention, according to the Associated Press.

The company said its management board met for a few hours but did not choose between Alabama, Tennessee or Michigan.

Chattanooga’s Enterprise South industrial park and a location near Huntsville, Ala., are considered finalists for a plant that could employ 2,000 workers.

The company’s supervisory board, the U.S. equivalent of a board of directors, is scheduled to meet on July 15, with a decision likely to be announced afterward.

Chattanooga remained in the running for a new Volkswagen assembly plant, observers say. The German automaker’s top management met today to discuss the facility that could employ 2,000 workers.

However, the company provided no firm date and declined to detail the progress of talks with the three states.

The proposed plant is part of the Wolfsburg-based company’s strategy to increase its presence in the U.S., where it holds only 2 percent of the market.

The automaker has said the surging euro — which makes goods imported from Germany more expensive in the United States — has pushed along plans for a new production facility.

Volkswagen, which closed its last U.S. production facility near Pittsburgh in 1988, has said actual production at the facility is not expected to start until at least 2010.