Bjornoya
03-10-2005, 18:55
Economic Blitz hits Varsola
In an economic blitz, Bjornoyan based Visara Corporation bought out the Varsola based Costco Corporation and Fast-Track Corporation. Costco is the 3rd largest supermarket chain in Varsola, and Fast-Track is the second largest supply-transport corporation in Varsola.
In addition, Visara purchased 10% of the Varsolan utility corporations Electric Company and Water Works. The total purchase cost Visara over 8 billion dollars.
The Visara CEO quickly appointed Varsolan born, Bjornoyan raised Guillermo Prassolo the head of this new economic empire. Stocks of Costco and Fast-Track rose 3 and 1/4 points on the day of Mr. Prassolo's appointment.
Mr. Guillermo assured all employees that no major staffing changes were to occur, and promised to honor trade agreements created by the previous owners until they expired. ________________________________________________________________
Guillermo looked out his new office to the streets below. The Varsolan populace wandered the streets below, packed like sardines. Freedom, economic freedom, what a joke! The mechanistic reaction of the Varsolan people to the pleasurable stimuli of economic gain could hardly be considered 'freedom.' But no matter, they did not deserve it anyway. Independence, as Wilhelm often told him, was not for the masses. It was for a very small, elite group of people, who were capable of handling that freedom.
Visara's move was unusual. Wilhelm rarely 'set-up-shop' outside of Bjornoya. Varsola was a different matter. The mess of corporations left the region with little purpose aside from consumption and acquisition. The will was lacking. Wilhelm intended to bring a bit of order to the anarchic capitalist 'state.'
As Guillermo admired his stuffed pheasant collection, his mind wandered. Today Costco, tommorow... savings from buying in bulk, the offensive power of electronic and luxury sales, and defensive power of food sales, Guillermo felt invincible. With Supply lines under his control and a decent say within the utilities providing energy to his 135 nation-wide stores, Guillermo planned on dominating the supermarket sector with seductive bulk-buys and delicious free-samples.
ooc: haha! beware all free market economies! Anyway, I have no idea how to do this, but thought it was a good idea. Way I interpret it, Varsola has pretty lenient laws on trade, so I assumed Visara would be allowed to intervene. If not, Guillermo will be a puppet of Visara, getting his resources from under the table. I do intend to control a fraction of Varsola's GNP.
In an economic blitz, Bjornoyan based Visara Corporation bought out the Varsola based Costco Corporation and Fast-Track Corporation. Costco is the 3rd largest supermarket chain in Varsola, and Fast-Track is the second largest supply-transport corporation in Varsola.
In addition, Visara purchased 10% of the Varsolan utility corporations Electric Company and Water Works. The total purchase cost Visara over 8 billion dollars.
The Visara CEO quickly appointed Varsolan born, Bjornoyan raised Guillermo Prassolo the head of this new economic empire. Stocks of Costco and Fast-Track rose 3 and 1/4 points on the day of Mr. Prassolo's appointment.
Mr. Guillermo assured all employees that no major staffing changes were to occur, and promised to honor trade agreements created by the previous owners until they expired. ________________________________________________________________
Guillermo looked out his new office to the streets below. The Varsolan populace wandered the streets below, packed like sardines. Freedom, economic freedom, what a joke! The mechanistic reaction of the Varsolan people to the pleasurable stimuli of economic gain could hardly be considered 'freedom.' But no matter, they did not deserve it anyway. Independence, as Wilhelm often told him, was not for the masses. It was for a very small, elite group of people, who were capable of handling that freedom.
Visara's move was unusual. Wilhelm rarely 'set-up-shop' outside of Bjornoya. Varsola was a different matter. The mess of corporations left the region with little purpose aside from consumption and acquisition. The will was lacking. Wilhelm intended to bring a bit of order to the anarchic capitalist 'state.'
As Guillermo admired his stuffed pheasant collection, his mind wandered. Today Costco, tommorow... savings from buying in bulk, the offensive power of electronic and luxury sales, and defensive power of food sales, Guillermo felt invincible. With Supply lines under his control and a decent say within the utilities providing energy to his 135 nation-wide stores, Guillermo planned on dominating the supermarket sector with seductive bulk-buys and delicious free-samples.
ooc: haha! beware all free market economies! Anyway, I have no idea how to do this, but thought it was a good idea. Way I interpret it, Varsola has pretty lenient laws on trade, so I assumed Visara would be allowed to intervene. If not, Guillermo will be a puppet of Visara, getting his resources from under the table. I do intend to control a fraction of Varsola's GNP.