Crimson Caravan Company
The Crimson Caravan Company is one of the largest trading companies in the Southwest, with branches in almost every major town along the trades routes.
Crimson Caravan Company began in 2151 in the Hub as one of the various merchant groups in the area. They rapidly rose to power due to their policy of buying out competition before they became problems. The company expanded drastically with the growth of the New California Republic, placing company posts in every major settlement along the way. After the NCR-Brotherhood War, the CCC was directly repsonsible for the resurface of caps a currency, backed by water, the most valuable commodity in the wasteland. When the Republic entered the Mojave Wasteland, the Company went with them, and built a branch near New Vegas. Providing various goods and merchants throughout the desert, eventually buying or pushing out all competition. When the NCR was pushed out of the Mojave in 2282, the Company received various reports of the financial and trade deficit throughout New California. Eventually, loss of profits and clear problems with the NCR's consolidation with NCR President Lucinda Bailey, led the CCC to move its main operation to New Vegas, though it backfired in 2293. In order to open up trade, Vegas gave the ruling Families the ability to sponsor individual merchants and caravans. This meant that the CCC couldn't buy out or threaten the smaller companies, without invoking the wrath of the various mobs of Vegas. Though trade opened up within the Mojave, the Company still held major portions of the economic sector, but quickly began losing the absolute grip it had under the NCR. Unlike the far more democratic senate that could be bought out, the Vegas Families, which slowly began to increase in number, care little for answering to others, and frequently don't play ball with the CCC when its far cheaper, and more lucrative, to open up their own sectors within the economy. Despite this, the CCC rake in lots of caps across the Southwest every year.
Structure
The Crimson Caravan Company is a full-blown corporation. With a CEO, a board of directors, branch managers, and employees. The Company regularly inspects branches that are underperforming, they also have contracts, and an HR agency, though that only operates within NCR territory due to the Republic's civil rights guarantees. Though Vegas does instead demand that any contracts in Mojave can be reviewed by the Executives if there are any disputes.
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