Home Depot and Mexico Dont Mix Austin Means

Goals for Home Depot • Expand exponentially into a foreign country to make more

Stats about our Country • North-Western Hemisphere • The areas that border Mexico are:

Our Position • Mexico is not the place for Home Depot. – Bad infrastructure

Mexico’s Bad Infrastructure • Mexico has bad roads – The roads have almost no

Horrid Human-Physical Characteristics • Primary language of Spanish – The Home Depot company would

Terrible Human-Environmental Characteristics • The people who move in – 1. 2% of Mexico’s

Even though… • The ports of Mexico have access to China and Europe for

Conclusion • Home Depot wants to expand exponentially. • Home Depot should not expand

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Home Depot and Mexico Don’t Mix Austin Means Chase Miranda

Goals for Home Depot • Expand exponentially into a foreign country to make more profit. • Expand to a country in either Central or South America. • The three things Home Depot is looking for in a country are: – A solid infrastructure connecting to ports – A reliable do-it-yourself culture – Reasonably price natural resources with good locations

Stats about our Country • North-Western Hemisphere • The areas that border Mexico are: – – – Pacific Ocean U. S Guatemala Belize Gulf of Mexico Gulf of California • Population: 114, 793, 341 people • Language: Spanish

Our Position • Mexico is not the place for Home Depot. – Bad infrastructure – Horrid human-physical characteristics – Terrible human-environmental characteristics

Mexico’s Bad Infrastructure • Mexico has bad roads – The roads have almost no quality and that can ruin cargo thus making it useless. • Mexico has long commutes in and through Mexico City. – The long commutes make Home Depot lose money by how much time is taken. • Mexico has a lot of rainfall. – With so much rainfall, the commute times to go up.

Horrid Human-Physical Characteristics • Primary language of Spanish – The Home Depot company would have to train people to be bi-lingual to communicate to customers. • The gangs of Mexico – Often steal or destroy items in stores • The heavy population of Mexico – A lot of traffic

Terrible Human-Environmental Characteristics • The people who move in – 1. 2% of Mexico’s population move into urban societies which make more traffic. • Land replaced with houses – The cities need more room for people so they build new houses where trees were. • Moving goods – The new houses take away the natural resources of the area.

Even though… • The ports of Mexico have access to China and Europe for goods. Ø This doesn’t outweigh the roads to travel the goods to the store Ø The drug cartels can interfere

Conclusion • Home Depot wants to expand exponentially. • Home Depot should not expand into Mexico. • Mexico just doesn’t meet the standards that a good Home Depot would require.