Z'ress Incorporated / ZRI

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Z’ress Incorporated is a shipping and mining company specializing in asteroid mining and mercantile shipping.

Abbil Z’ress, Abbicus Rex and Omicron Steele are the owners and operators of Z’ress Incorporated. Mr. Rex has 25 years experience as a human relations officer, marketing specialist and facility manager. Mr. Steele has 30 years experience in mining on various planets and within asteroid fields, 15 years of that experience were running large scale mining platforms,surveying potential mining sites and the refining of mineral deposits. Mr. Z’ress has 20 years of shipping experience as a cargo hauler, dispatcher and cargo load master. Mr. Z’ress noticed the need for mining platforms to have adequate shipping of their products and supplies to and from market and saw a way for both shipping and mining to be combined in a single business venture.

ZRI will survey, dispatch and administer portable mining platforms throughout various systems, process the raw minerals into a sellable product and ship it to companies which have a demand for such products. Competition will be heavy but manageable due to the emphasis on experience, customer-owner contact and lower overhead due to production and shipping costs.

Z’ress Incorporated has a goal of achieving 10 percent of the local market within five years; raising this percentage to 25 percent by the following year. Expansion into neighboring star systems during the fourth and fifth year of operations. Operations are expected to begin at the start of the second quarter in 2946.

The company has a goal of achieving a 15 percent margin over sales during the first quarter of the first operating year; with a goal of earning pretax profits approaching 18 percent at the fourth quarter of the second year. The company expects this percentage to continue through the sixth year. A positive cash flow should be achieved by the middle of the third year with a net return on our investment around 50 percent by the end of the fifth year.

The current product line will initally be various minerals and mercantile shipping products as market demands and profits allow.