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Spinrad Industries (SpIn) is an AA-rated megacorporation with its principal headquarters in Lisbon, Portugal. The corporation is privately-owned and operated by Johnny Spinrad, a jet-setting corporate mogul.
Overview[]
Spinrad is a diversified megacorporation renowned for being on the cutting edge of cybernetics and biotech. It's founder/owner, Johnny Spinrad, hates the Great Western Dragon Lofwyr and waged a 20-year campaign against Sol Media, ending in Spinrad's takeover of the media company.
Spinrad Industries has ties to the Triads; specifically, the Large Circle League smuggles illegal components into New York City for Spinrad and, in return, the corporation performs cybernetic and biotech installation surgeries for the triad.[1] Now that the Large Circle League is a vassal of the Red Dragons, Spinrad is connected to them by proxy.[2]
History[]
Spinrad Industries was founded in 2024, when Johnny Spinrad merged SpinCorp and Industry Futuristes.
In 2026, as a direct result of Johnny spinal injuries from a racing collision, Spinrad started to invest heavily in cybernetics and biotechnology.
By the 2040's, Spinrad Industries had expanded into fashion, luxury items, art, sports, and tourism.
In 2051, Spinrad led a small group of corporations that won a bid for the French government's Monaco Reconstruction project and a fifty-year lease on the principality. It was shortly after this crowning achievement that information was leaked to Sol Media's Madeleine Müller that Spinrad Industries R&D division had been performing illegal experimentation in Marseilles. The French government brought a case against Spinrad Industries before the Corporate Court, which fined the corporation two billion nuyen and downgraded the corporate entity from AA rating to A rating. These penalties nearly ended the corporation. However, Johnny Spinrad and SpIn survived.
By 2063, Spinrad Industries began to recover with its Spin-X line of sports and fashion cyber and Techwarrior, a military cyber suite. It engaged in partnerships with Soroyama in Japan and made inroads back into its old media and luxury markets.
By 2072, Spinrad Industries, reacquired its AA rating from the Corporate Court. This coincided with its becoming a member of both the New European Economic Community and the Manhattan Development Consortium. It began rapidly expanding and engaging in joint ventures with other megacorporations around the world.
Following the announcement of the Corporate Court's megacorporate audit in 2077, Spinrad was one of the most aggressive AA-rated megacorporations to acquire or merge with other corporations in order to shore up and expand its global revenue and assets. Among its new acquisitions are Regency Megamedia, Aegis Cognito, and Lusiada. Its purchase of Sol-Media was seen as the culmination of Johnny Spinrad's twenty-year grudge to strike at the media conglomerate that nearly destroyed his eponymous corporation.
In 2080, after NeoNET was dismantled in the wake of the Boston Lockdown, Spinrad Industries merged with Global Sandstorm to become "SpinGlobal," and with the resources of the combined megacorporations SpinGlobal received NeoNET's seat on the Corporate Court and AAA status.
Major Corporate Divisions[]
- Marduk Industries (Dubai, Arabian Caliphate)
- Spinrad Industries America (Manhattan)
- Spinrad Industries Asia (Macao, Canton Confederation)
- Spinrad Industries Europe (Lisbon, Portugal)
- Spinrad Industries Latin America (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
- Spinrad Industries Oceana (Jakarta, Javanese Republic)
Major Subsidiaries[]
Augmentation[]
- Bodyline
- JS
- Soroyama
- Spin Shop
- SpIn-X
- Spinrad Systems
Biotechnology[]
- Biotechnics
- Phoenix Biotechnology
- Nunoo Health
- LusoServices Medical
Finance[]
- CNI
- Chalmers & Cole Associates
Matrix[]
- Asia Online
- Europe Online
- Lusiada Telecom
- Trompe L'oeil
- UCAS Online
Media[]
- Regency Megamedia
- Sol Media
- SpIn Public Relations
- Spinrad Media
- Trideo Monte Carlo
Sport[]
- Clube de Futebol Os Belenenses
- Gaziers de Marseille
- New York Marauders
- Ottawa Arsenal Footbal Club
- Sport Lisboa e Benfica
Tourism[]
- Javert & Cie
- Monte Carlo Casino, Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company
- Warwick International Hotels
Other Significant Subsidiaries[]
- Aegis Cognito
- Luxe
- Lusiada Infrastructure
- Lusiada Naval Interests
- Lusiada Técnica
- LusoAgronomica
- LusoServices
- Lusiada Security
- PetroGas
- Spinrad-Lusiada Foreign Operations
Foreign Investments[]
Along with its own divisions and subsidiaries, SpIn holds ownership stakes in several other corporations and joint ventures around the world.
- AG Chemie (9%)
- Ain Beni Mathar Integrated Thermo Solar Combined Cycle Power Plant (33%)
- Le Consortium for the Development of Québec (12%)
- European Javanese Development Cooperative (40%)
- Fatima Petrochemicals (20%)
- Manhattan Development Consortium (7.7%)
- Worldwide Shipping (50%)
References[]
- ↑ The Rotten Apple: Manhattan p.31
- ↑ Battle of Manhattan p.13-14
Index[]
- Augmentation, 31, 54, 60,
- Bloody Business
- Conspiracy Theories, 111
- Corporate Enclaves, 118, 119
- Corporate Guide
- Cutting Aces
- Dark Terrors
- Hard Targets
- Jet Set
- Market Panic
- Prime Runners
- Seattle Sprawl Box Set
- Shadows of Asia, 27
- Shadows of Europe, 88, 89, 125, 126, 230
- Shadowtech
- Sixth World Almanac, 73
- Sprawl Survival Guide, 77
- Spy Games
- State of the Art: 2064
- Stolen Souls
- The Clutch of Dragons
- The Rotten Apple: Manhattan
- Unwired, 194
Other[]
- French Touch
- Spinrad