Corporate America | 2063-04-27 OUTDATED | notes

The fille lists the major corporate groups based in North America that hold as of 2063 a significant economical rank and possess the stability and power required to have megacorporate status as in 2063. It only includes independent corporations and left out North American subsdiaries of foreign based groups. As far as possible, all presently available data were taken into account to produce this report, and completed with extrapolations and suppositions.


ARES MACROTECHNOLOGY
Headquarters: Detroit, Michigan, UCAS
President/CEO: Damien Knight
Major subsidiaries: Apple Computer, Ares Arms, Ares Global Entertainment, AresSpace, General Motors, Hard Corps, Knight Errant Security, NASA Consulting, NBS, Pratt & Whitney, Qantas Airways

Ares Macrotechnology is the second largest megacorporation in North America behind Aztechnology, but the first aerospace and defense manufacturer in the world. Ares subsidiaries continue to do fairly well in security, air transport and space lifting, personal electronics, imagery systems and media. 2063 saw the return to profits for the group and the end of the debt contracted for the acquisition of General Motors, which gave Ares back its original automotive branch and completed military vehicles manufacturing capacities. In the meantime, AresSpace failed in the Comet Race and opened its Icarus orbital tourist resort with months of delay and after Yamatetsu Shibanojuki habitat. But the completion of the first manned mission to Jupiter moon Europa could well be one of the greatest achievement of the decade.
On the geopolitical stage, Ares is the major ally of the Haeffner Administration in the UCAS, making the 2064 election a crucial expiry for the corporation as well.


CORD MUTUAL
Headquarters: Atlanta, Georgia, CAS
President: Heinrich Messer
CEO: Naomi Beauchard

The Cord Mutual remains the largest insurer in the world. Most rather know the name of its medical insurance and services branch, DocWagon. Since its creation, the high mobility and availability service of DocWagon became a model with franchises and copycats throughout America and the rest of the world. The Cord Mutual subsequently constituted a holding of pharmaceuticals and biotechnology companies to support its medical activities.
However, the megacorporation recently suffered a setback in the failure of its takeover bid for the firefighter service Franklin Associates Inc. in which it remains the largest single shareholder. One of the reason might well be the bad publicity brought by the arrest of Dr. Julius Beauchard, a voodoo cult leader in New Orleans and the own father of Mrs. Naomi Beauchard.


CROSS APPLIED TECHNOLOGIES
Headquarters: Montreal, Quebec
Directeur Général: Dr. Lucien Cross
Main divisions: Cross Advanced Electronics, Cross Biomedical, Cross Entertainment and Multimedia, Cross Global Development, Cross Matrix Technologies.

The CATCo's assets and sales figures have grown over the past few years with acquisitions and establishments of production facilities and retailing networks. The company makes the headlines more and more by itself than through licenses granted to other corporations, although the associations with Saeder-Krupp and Aztechnology's names is frequent and remarked. There have been also several situations of competition between the expansion policies of Cross and Ares.
The expansion quickly carried fruits as Cross maintained its position as one the leader in computers, electronics, medical and cybernetic technologies. The company's position in these fields seemingly has a negative effect on the chances for startups in Quebec, but also attires many young graduated people, especially from France.
Rumors speak of black operations and governments manipulations conducted for the CATCo by a group known as "the Seraphim." Facts concerning their functioning and their exact feats remain widely unavailable.


FEDERATED-BOEING
Headquarters: Seattle, UCAS
President/CEO: Jessica Sirianni
Major subsidiaries: Autometric, Federated-Boeing Energy, Federated-Boeing Metalworks, Federated-Boeing Shipyards, Hughes Helicopters, McDonnell-Douglas, Phantom Works, Sea Launch, Solid-State Electronics

Boeing is the third aerospace company in the world, behind Ares and S-K Aerospace. It worth note that Ares' leading position itself accounts revenues from Boeing subcontracting. But the more detailed look also reveals Boeing is largely falling behind in space and bears a real competition on each other segment by companies more specialized like Airbus (civilian aircraft), Lockheed (military systems) and Sikorsky-Bell (helicopters).
The side activities of Boeing includes air transport, naval construction and energy production. The second division in importance is handling mining, metallurgy and polymers production. A group of major contracts signed during the Pacific Prosperity Group summit in June with Korean corporations for nickel and plastics have marked the start of profitability from Boeing plants in Indonesia and Malaysia.
However, nearly all of Boeing higher echelons, including CEO Jessica Sirianni, comes from Seattle aeronautic branch offices. She obtained Chief Financial Officer Bradley Morris' resignation over a sharp decrease of revenue, effectively throwing out the last of the Federated Investors executives that recovered Boeing Co in 2039.


FORD MOTOR CORPORATION
Headquarters: Dearborn, Michigan, UCAS
President/CEO: William Tyler
Major subsidiaries: EMCo, Hertz Corporation, Jaguar Cars, Kia Motors, Mazda Motor Corporation

The automotive company created by Henri Ford remained through most of America industrial history a major player. In addition to its own activities in Europe, Ford owns 51% of the EMCo and provides technical designs to the European companies the EMCo gathers: Opel, Peugeot-Citroen, Skoda Auto and Land Rover.
The part of incomes from the defense contracts seriously dropped in favor of General Motors since Ares acquired it. The remnants mostly comes from motor transmissions, Land Rover militarized 4x4 and armor kits and Mazda electric subsystems. However Ford exclusive contracts with the Lone Star and DocWagon are up for renewal both in the coming year.


GLOBAL OIL CORPORATION
Headquarters: Dallas, Texas, CAS
CEO: Oliver Sneider
Majos subsidiaries: Bass Investment & Resource, Bus-Comp International, Global Steel, GR Shipping, Line Industrial Solutions, Montclair Assets, Three-Towers Insurance

Historically, Global Oil was a financial corporation specialized in oil industry services: financing, brokering, equipment and transport of oil. It is conducting business in association with numerous exploiting companies, the largest being Exxoco, followed by smaller ones like Gulfstar, Tsuruga Oilco and Bathotech.
But the merger with UCAS Steel & Manufacturing and the acquisition of Montclair Industries have made Global Oil a large industrial company, straining off on its traditional oil business investments. They have a presence in a whole range of activities in the Caribbean League, and one of the top three steel industrial along with Nucorp (the American branch of SK's Heme Group) and BeLTV (Sikorsky-Bell group).
Most experts agrees that Global Oil should rebalance its activities. A possible plan would be a merger with Exxoco and a split of the resulting entity into a financial and an industrial companies.


HISATO-TURNER BROADCASTING CORPORATION
Headquarters: Atlanta, Georgia, CAS
CEO: Dwight T. Patrick
Major subsidiaries: Ancient Wisdom, Black Gate Communication Systems, NewsNet-SatNet, NostalgiaVid, Tanegashima Space Center, T&H Consulting

HTB is the association of two men, John Turner, grandson of media magnate Ted Turner, and Senichi Hisato, the Japanese guru of interactive media. The corporation is only broadcasting global programs, insisting on the absence of a local biased point of view. The cultural disparity between Atlanta and Osaka offices produced a style sometimes criticized as ultra-conformist, defending economic development and ecology. But NewsNet remains according to all opinion polls the first provider of information in the world.
HTB group activities extend to telecommunications, user interface software, scientific research, meteorological services, marketing consulting and brand management. This broad set of skills allowed HTB to take charge of Tanegashima space launching facility's schedule. The fate of the satellite engineering division remains unsure, the two options being a costly overhaul to keep up with the technology curve, or subcontracting to Boeing or Shibata, as HTB already does for launching vehicles..


LOCKHEED CORPORATION
Headquarters: Los Angeles, Pueblo
President/CEO: Michael LaRocha
Major subsidiaries: AIN Naval Operations, Chenowth Products, Litton Industries, Loral-Vought, Northup

Lockheed was an early benefactor of corporate extraterritoriality but gradually lost its ties with the US and UCAS governments. Lockheed no longer benefits from major military projects, now rather amalgamating incomes from a range of components manufacturers centered in California and Texas. Lockheed also created the spatial venture Trans-Orbital, owning a third of its capital. In spite of Trans-Orbital activity ups and downs, Lockheed derived consequent revenues from the production of their launching vehicles and equipment. But the closure of Matagorda launch site and the use of Novatech and Proteus facilities by Trans-Orbital should cut in those contracts as well.
Lockheed and some of its subsidiaries currently faces the issue of Los Angeles annexation by the Pueblo state. Technically it can decide to remain incorporated under Californian laws in another county and eventually require a license to the Pueblo to operate its LA offices, or reincorporate under Pueblo laws. The megacorporation operates about twenty subsidiaries in Los Angeles in finance, commerce, shipping, energy, aerospace, electronics, research and services.


LONE STAR SECURITY SERVICES
Headquarters: Austin, Texas, CAS
President: James Wilson
CEO: Theodore Winslow

Public contracts throughout North America and the rest of the world to maintain, equip and run police forces make the Texan company the largest of its kind. At the top is the one billion nuyen UCAS Drug Enforcement contract (its exact amount depends of the Congress' opinion about the federal budget each year) to disrupt criminal drug smuggling. In turn many other governments call upon the Lone Star consultants and units to handle situation involving narcotraffickers and their para-military militia. LSSS is also investing heavily in the thaumaturgical field with appliances in forensic magic. With the private sector, the lucrative contracts include insurance, Matrix security software and armored transport services.


NOVATECH
Headquarters: Boston, Massachusetts, UCAS
President/CEO: Richard Villiers
Major subsidiaries: Cavalier Arms, Central Industrial, Cyberspace Development Corp., FTL Matrixware, Fuchi Orbital, JRJ International, Matrix Systems, Pioneer Cybernetics, Silveril Investments, Walker Aerodesign

Gathering the essential of Fuchi Americas division's assets, Novatech leads the computer industry. The merger of Villiers International and Cambridge Holdings also included business banking, aerospace and a stretch of diversified activities. After several years of stalling, Novatech is slowly returning to a level of investments in space comparable to what Fuchi previously did. The change did came with serious revisions of the schedules' dates. After the first reactions, the final result was a rewned confidence from investors. That does only concern the publicly traded subsdiaries, as Novatech by itself is privately held by the Villiers clan.


PHOENIX BIOTECHNOLOGIES
Headquarters: Phoenix, Pueblo
President/CEO: Jeremy Newburg-Rinn

Because of Pueblo Corporate Council special status, Phoenix Biotechnologies was in 2060 the first legally declared Pueblo corporation to receive AA status and extraterritoriality right from the Corporate Court. The corporate council remains the main shareholder with 50.5% of the voting stock. Outside of the Pueblo Corporate Council, Phoenix Biotechnologies is very present in the Southern Hemisphere and especially in Amazonia.
Phoenix Biotechnologies three main branches are pharmaceutics, agriculture and magical medical appliances. It entered the market of biological implants late but seemingly learned from the mistakes other made company before, and quickly moved on another sector to lead Pueblo research in nanotechnology.


PROMETHEUS ENGINEERING
Headquarters: Manhattan, New York, UCAS
President: Wayne DeVries

Prometheus Engineering is a megacorporation conducting research and development in construction and mechanical engineering, chemistry, cybernetic and biotechnologies. It is also the owner of the famous Hyundai-IBM robotic laboratories in Armonk and Pusan acquired when IBM went bankrupt in 2039. In the early fifties it produced several important breakthrough in the particular robotic field of artificial intelligence.
Prometheus have been from the start closely working with the Ares Macrotechnology group and especially to Ares Cybernetic & Medical and AresSpace. In late 2062, Prometheus signed a major contract with the UCAS Department of Defense to prepare with AresSpace the next generation of military satellites using nanotechnology and expert systems. This is essentially a gift, as Prometheus fell behind other foreign nanotechnology laboratories in the last years.


UNITED OIL INDUSTRIES
Headquarters: Dallas, Texas, CAS
President/CEO: Gerald Byrne

With oil rigs in Texas, California, the NAN, Chili and Arabia, United Oil Industries is one of the largest oil producer. However it's real lead lies in the development of refinements techniques and underground prospecting and extraction methods. Unlike the industrial chemicals processing activities, research ventures in the new chemical fuels caused a growing deficit in the last years. Insider source at Boeing, a major partner of UniOil, revealed that the company main laboratory in Seattle could close its doors, although UniOil made no further comment. The megacorporation also operates several transport and shipping companies and holds a major financial position in Texas with stockholding in many other important corporations in the area.


UNIVERSAL OMNITECH
Headquarters: Vancouver, SSC
CEO: Hamilton Grimes
Major subsidiaries: Aurora Biodesigns, DeBeers-Omnitech, Ingersoll & Berkeley

Universal Omnitech is well-known as the pioneer in biotechnology, from the basic sequencing of human genome achieved in 2046 to the last enhancements of physical and neural capacities. The research capacities in the genetic field was carried on in production and processing of food with the acquisition of Ingersoll & Berkeley. UO also controls activities in microtronics, one that brought it together with diamond specialist DeBeers, in spite of the two companies' dissimilarity.
UO is now watching the end of the so-called markets' bio-euphoria from a top position shared with Yamatetsu. The courtrooms won't be appeased so quickly as evidence are brought of manipulations and corruption conducted by the North American Association of Technologies for Organisms and the Altman & Lydecker law firm on the behalf of UO.
UO assiste maintenant à la fin de la bio-euphorie des marchés depuis une position dominante partagée aec Yamatetsu. Les salles d'audience ne vont pas être appaisé aussi facilement alors que des preuves sont apportés de manipulations et de corruptions conduites par l'Association Nord Americaines de Technologies pour l'Organisme et le cabinet d'avocat Altman & Lydecker, à l'initiative d'UO.