Chapter 5: Developing A Global Vision

Chapter 5: Developing A Global Vision


In the day in age in order to be a truly successful company, one must make his or her company global. This means that one cant just sell there products to one country. One big factor in maximizing revenue in any business is to do business all over the world. Tesla is an American company, There global headquarters is located in Palo Alto, California. Palo Alto is home to many different technology companies. Tesla also has Facilities in Canada, Europe, Asia & Australia. Tesla is truly a global company with facilities in 4/5 continents.

United States Of America
Tesla was founded in Silicon Valley. They opened there first retail store in Los Angeles, CA in april of 2008 & shortly after that they opened there second retail store in Menlo Park, CA. About a year later they opened a showroom right here in New York City. The reason they did this is to display the product. New York City attracts tons of tourists each year, this helped with their global sales. Tesla also opened store in Washington, Washington D.C, Chicago, Florida, Colorado and, other cities in California.

Canada
Tesla opened their first store in Canada on November 16, 2012 in the Yorkdale shopping center in Toronto. This store took a lot of effort from the company. One major feature of this store is a 85-inch touch screen wall that allows customers to customize their own Tesla, they have the option to buy it once they are done. Tesla currently has a total of five retail stores in Canada. Below is a picture of the retail store in Yorkdale Shopping center.

Europe
In June of 2009 Telsa opened their first store in Europe. The retail store is located in London's Knightsbridge district. This store relocated to Westfield London shopping center in 2013. Tesla currently has 24 stores in Europe. the European headquarters are in Amsterdam. The reason that Canada doesn't have their own headquarters is because it is so close to the US. Below is a picture of Teslas store in Germany.

Asia
Aoyama, Minato, Tokyo is were the first Japanese showroom was established. After this they opened up another store in Osaka. Many stores were forced to shut down due to the fact that the country didn't give the buyers tax breaks. The result of this is that the car retailed for $400,000-$500,000. After this the company was still able to open more stores throughout Asia.