MultiCorp / THEECHELON

BRIEF HISTORY

Multicorp has been established in 2939 by a group of friends who worked for the police in a city called Los Santos on Earth. The President of the CEO of Multicorp used to be a special agent and the chief of police respectively. Due to their high ranks in law enforcement organisations they had good connections in the government. In particular they had good links with the Subcommittee on Commerce & Trade since they worked closely with them during anti-corruption investigations.

The founders have experienced the power of the big organisations such as Arcorp and Hurston during their police work. Investigations were often disrupted by the big companies, which became so influential that they started to get actively involved into the daily running of the government.
Consequentially the government often didn’t have much interest in pursuing lengthy investigations and legal proceedings.
Police work became very frustrating, and the founders have decided to leave their jobs and try to start their own company which they called The Echelon.

The Echelon was initially planned to be a an elite military special operations private contractor (EMOPC), but the idea was quickly abandoned and the founders have decided to diversify the company to provide a larger variety of services. Consequentially The Echelon has received a commercial branch with the intention to expand into trading, convoying and mining.

Unfortunately, the barriers of entry were very high, because the big corporations were powerful enough to drive any new business into bankruptcy. The owners were trying to think of a way to secure additional funding. After a long search they have remembered their friends from the Subcommittee on Commerce & Trade. From their past encounters they remembered how the senators were very concerned about the ever growing monopoly power of the big corporations which started to rival the power of the central government. Furthermore, the lack of any competitors meant that almost all of the big companies were artificially increasing prices and at the same time decreasing wages, which often led to exploitative relationships. On Hurston, for example many labourers are nothing more than just modern age slaves.

Thanks to their persistence, reputation, business model and lobbying skills they were able to persuade the subcommittee to take on a part of the start-up costs in an effort to increase the competition within the economy. In exchange for the financing, the government became a stakeholder in the company, which has been renamed to MultiCorp, due to the multitude of services it provides.

MULTICORP TODAY

MultiCorp is a very fast growing corporation today. We provide a variety of services which include, but are not limited to trading, mining, armed convoys, operations and combat. Our services have became well known across the verse for their quality, quickness and efficiency. The majority of our revenue comes from doing business with civilians and citizens, but recently we have also been given some high profile government contracts which include patrolling, securing outposts and ensuring proper tax collection,

On the other hand, we take workers rights very seriously and are known for a very democratic decision making process amongst employees, which is unheard of in the universe. MultiCorp makes sure no employee is left out.