Mercedes-Benz USA (MBUSA) will relocate its corporate headquarters to Atlanta, Georgia, in a move, it said, was designed to better serve its growing customer base and strengthen the company’s position for long-term, sustainable growth.
Executives and staff will relocate from Montvale, New Jersey to a temporary facility in Atlanta’s central perimeter on an interim basis. The company will construct a new headquarters building expected to be completed in early 2017. MBUSA plans to begin moving employees starting in July. The move, which will affect approximately 1,000 employees, will be phased to help minimise any disruption to business operations. Several operational areas will remain in both Montvale and Robbinsville, New Jersey.
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“New Jersey has been a wonderful home to our US operations for our first 50 years and still is today,” said MBUSA president and CEO Stephen Cannon. “The state has worked tirelessly with us as we evaluated our options. Ultimately, though, it became apparent that to achieve the sustained, profitable growth and efficiencies we require for the decades ahead, our headquarters would have to be located elsewhere. That brought us to Atlanta.”
“Atlanta is a premier city, which places us closer to our ever-growing southeast customer base, our port in Brunswick, Georgia, and to Mercedes-Benz US International, our Alabama manufacturing facility, which accounts for half of the vehicles we sell here in the US. For our employees, Atlanta offers a strong quality of life, terrific schools and wonderful cultural and recreational opportunities.”
Mercedes’ move comes after the 2014 announcement Toyota would relocate most headquarters operations from its original California base to Plano on the outskirts of Dallas, Texas.
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