Spinrad Global
Public Agenda
Rumors say Spinrad Global is moving its headquarters from Lisbon, Portugal to New Monaco, France. Spinrad Industries rebuilt Monaco in the 2050s but was forced to move out after a scandal invalidated their fifty-year contract there. But now that they are an AAA-rated corp, the French are dying to have him back, even with his “I told you I’d get back at you one day” attitude. Now, Spinrad Global has their own corporate enclave in New Monaco, which they built. They may move the whole headquarters there within a year or two.
Assets
With its new AAA status, Spinrad has settled into the number eight position on the Corporate Court. Truth be told, Spinrad Global has the assets and influence to be ranked in the top three, but Johnny has enemies on the Court, and those enemies pushed back hard and refused to allow the rankings to fluctuate so radically after so much change had already happened. So Spinrad rests toward the bottom, but expect that to change as the decade progresses. If he plays his cards right, Spinrad’s company will ascend to the greatest heights.
History
With a corporate slogan like “Putting our Spin on the future,” Spinrad Global is off and running. Spinrad Global is an AAA private corporation, and their president is the one and only Johnny Spinrad, the billionaire jet-setter who virtually dictates fashionable trends in high society and luxury body modifications. Spinrad Global is the newest AAA megacorporation. As a victory lap, Johnny Spinrad declared 2080 the year of Spinrad, and we’ve been suffering through the insufferable gloat for more than half a year now. “An unlikely merger of European Spinrad Industries and Middle Eastern Global Sandstorm, the two were brought together by the love and eventual marriage between Johnny Spinrad and Gabrielle Al Thani, oldest daughter of Emir Jassim bin Joaan Al Thani of Qatar. Their love is a bedrock that keeps Spinrad Global on solid ground!” Part true, part bulldrek. Yeah, the marriage made the merger possible, but true love and keeping the company on solid ground? Ugh. Johnny tried to pull this in England in 2063. He wooed Princess Caroline, same as he did Gabby Al Thani. He would have become English royalty, along with every fringe benefit attending, if a sex/parentage scandal hadn’t broken out. This was a marriage arranged not just by Johnny and Emir Jassim bin Joaan Al Thani of Qatar but by the bigwigs at Global Sandstorm, too. Once they settled on getting insanely rich, they had to sell the public of the Arabian Caliphate on the idea that Johnny Spinrad was one of theirs (not an easy product to move). But it helps when the only media you get is from the corp that wants you to love this idea. Before the merger was even being discussed, Spinrad was making another series of deals to make both it and a host of other moves possible. Johnny masterfully brought erstwhile allies together to help Spinrad achieve its goals. First, they acquired Chalmers & Cole Associates by making a deal that included an aggressive clawback provision if Johnny ever died. It was too good for them to pass up. Then he leveraged his ownership of Chalmers & Cole to finance a huge portion of his newer acquisitions, including Aegis Cognito, Sol-Media, Regency Megamedia, and Lusiada, all of which partially contained similar clawback provisions, cleverly hidden from each other. He also borrowed a ton of cash from Global Sandstorm ahead of the merger, and the rest of the liquid came from smaller loans from all sorts of companies including the Frankfurt Bank Association, Telestrian, the Pacific Rim Bank, Aithne Oak forest, and Aztechnology’s Domingo “Ding” Ramos. Once the marriage fell into place, the stage was set for the merger, and everyone wins big. The final domino fell when Johnny made a deal with Richard Villiers to take some of NeoNET’s assets, including the JRJ golden ticket, and bam! Spin- rad Global is now an AAA corp. The problem? It is all built on a lie. The Al Thani family signed an airtight Islamic marriage contract when they made a loan to Johnny, meaning that if he messes up his vows or dies, his wife would own SpIn. The fact that none of his other creditors know that Johnny made the same deal with almost every one of them is going to blow up hard when they find out. Having said that, Johnny has survived more assassination attempts than literally anyone else in the Sixth World, and he has the cutting-edge cyberware to prove it.
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