Continental Brands
Public Agenda
Continental rebranded their CHOOH-4U stations as Oasis stores and quickly rebuilt them into one of the few reliable places to buy their food products. Continental's Oasis Community Loyalty Program rewards entire communities for being loyal customers by granting them prioritized food shipments and cheaper mega sized goods and punishes them with higher prices and scarcity for acting against Continental interests.
Assets
The "acquired" assets from Petrochem, their subsidiary company Oasis, and loads of bloodthirsty corporate scumsuckers.
History
Petrochem's monopoly on the production of CHOOH2
in the United States meant that any surplus crop of Triticum Vulgaris Megasuavis, the wheat from which the fuel is made, had to be completely absorbed by the company. Having no additional incentive to produce more CHOOH2
in any given year within the walled garden of their American monopoly, Petrochem turned to their subsidiary food business, Continental Agricorp of Tulsa, OK, to answer this problem.
Petrochem tasked the Continental Agricorp's American New Products Division with an important mission: find
new ways to sell Americans more food than they bought the previous year. With each passing year, surpluses
of T. megasuavis in the U.S. became larger, and the work of selling through the wheat fell increasingly heavy
on the American New Products Division.
The constant pressure to produce exponential year-on-year growth, combined with a lack of oversight from their parent company, created an office environment so toxic that it seemed to eat people alive, only to replace them just as rapidly. What rose from this poison swamp was the cross-factional alliance of the New Beverages Marketing Director, Olivia Forsythe, and the New Foods Marketing Director, Lewis "Mr. Moo-Moo Burger" McAllister, each served by brand mangers loyal to them alone. In secret, in the summer of 2040, they drafted a plan to cut out the ultimate middleman in their business: Petrochem.
They began to consolidate power—and over the course of three years they put half of Petrochem's American Agribusiness into the legal equivalent of a large sack and hoisted it over their shoulder. In preparation for their move they brought half of Petrochem's CHOOH-4U gas stations, lobbying, and research and development in-house. One morning, all affected staff were made aware. Continental Agricorp was no longer their employer, but Continental Brands was. While they were no longer affiliated with Petrochem, the move came with a tidy pay increase.
In court, Petrochem's legal team in their home state of Texas argued that it was the greatest single theft of property, both intellectual and otherwise in recorded history, but the case was quickly dismissed. In a final twist of the knife, Continental Brands had stolen the judge, too.
Founding Date
2043
Type
Corporation, Food Industry
Predecessor Organization
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