5.1 Internationalization process of Red Bull
The chronological Red Bull’s internationalization process. As the model predicts Red Bull started its internationalization in Austria and Asia, then the Europe, followed by the Baltic States and the African markets. Red Bull’s establishment pattern and its entry modes to the foreign markets. Red Bull was in a sense does not following the establishment chain, starting with no regular export and going through the stages in the right order, despite the fact that the firm leapfrogs some of them. But if the whole concept of the establishment chain and the Uppsala model had been followed Red Bull would gradually have increased its commitment on the foreign markets. Furthermore, the process would not have been broken and markets would not have been left.We therefore found out other models to explain the internationalization process of the Red Bull which did not follow such pattern.However, important issues in the internationalization concept are market choice and choice of entry mode (Johanson and Vahlne, 1977, 1990, cited in Andersson 2000, p. 68), it was our task to look at the choices the Red Bull made and still makes during its process and to see if such choices made reflection on internationallization perspectives.
Red Bull skipped start exporting to a country via an agent. Explanation of this internationalization behavior of Red Bull is worth to give a credit to its entrepreneurs especially the former and current presidents. Their rapid understanding of foreign markets and perceptions of high risks reflected on entering with the most risky mode that is establishing wholly own manufacturing subsidiaries the case of Austrian market.