Hortalez et Cie

Hortalez et Cie, LIC is one of the major Imperial Megacorporations.

• It is the dominant insurance and financial services company within the Third Imperium.
• It primarily operates within Charted Space.

Market Ticker Code

This business entity is traded under the following interstellar market code/s:

Market Ticker Code
Name	Code	Type	Charter	Remarks
Hortalez et Cie	HetC-Fina-MEGA	4 to 12 alphanumeric character	LIC	None

Description (Portfolio)

Hortalez et Cie has its fingers in financial and credit transactions at all levels of Imperial society. This corporation was founded in 221 by Lucienne Hortalez, capitalised from family funds.

Commercial Competencies

• Banking
• Financial Arrangements
• Investments

Competency Remarks

It is primarily a banking and investment house, which specializes in:

• Loans to planetary governments
• Mercenary unit bonding
• Underwriting of large scale projects of all sorts
• And other fiscal activities

In some regions (the Spinward Marches Sector especially) the firm acts as a mercenary clearinghouse.

Stockholders

Stock ownership (1105):

• Hortalez family (Via Hortalez Family Trust) — 74%
• Other corporations — 15%
• Zirunkariish — 7%
• Imperial family — 5%
• Other — 6%

Stock ownership (1126):

• Hortalez Family: 71%
• Zirunkarlish — 1%
• Naasirka — 5%
• Makhidkarun — 2%
• Imperial Family — 5%
• Private Investors — 3%
• Murdoch Holdings — 3%
• Noble Families — 4%
• Other — 6%

Subsidiaries and Holding in other Megacorporations

(1105)

• Musizis Pen
• Zaimen, Clammath and Hollings

After (1126)

• Megacorporations
  • General Products: 4%
  • GSbAG: 41% (Control)
  • Instellarms: 40% (Control)
  • Ling-Standard Products: 32% (Control)
  • Makhidkarun: 14%
  • SuSAG: 6%
  • Sharurshid: 4%
  • Sternmetal Horizons: 45% (Control)
  • Zirunkarlish: 3%
• Other
  • Musizis Pen: 100% (Control)
  • Zaimen, Clammath and Hollings: 100% (Control)

History & Background (Dossier)

It was founded in 221 by Lucienne Hortalez, capitalized from family funds.

• The name of the company comes from the venerated French language of Terra.

1. Older logos used throughout spinward space since the 800s.
   

Trade Partners

• Naasirka
• Sharurshid

Trade Competitors

No information yet available.

Corporate Timeline

• 221: Founded
• 1122 to 001-1126: Great Asset Swap orchestrated.

Popular Culture

After 1126, the term Hortalez came to represent the more rapacious individual out to make a profit at anyone's expense.

Worlds & Sectors (Astrography)

This business is best known for frequenting the markets of the following worlds and systems:
Charted Space:

• Third Imperium: As a megacorporation, it has operations and facilities across Imperial space, in all sectors.

Core Sector

Hortalez et Cie has funded one of the most ambitious terraforming projects to date in the Imperium, on the world of Ameros. The goal of the pilot project is to completely transform the surface of Ameros from a barren airless rock into a world with a thin atmosphere and a 10% hydrosphere in less than 100 years.

Daibei Sector

Hortalez et Cie maintains a regional office on the sector capital of Warinir.

Reaver's Deep Sector

Hortalez et Cie owns and operates the highport in orbit above Diablo, an Imperial world in Drexilthar Subsector.

Reft Sector

Hortalez et Cie has little interest in Reft Sector, other than the region "beneath the claw". Although well known for bankrolling colonial operations and construction projects, the megacorporation seems to have decided to stay out of the Islands Cluster market.

Facilities Data

This business is known to host major facilities in the following locations:

• TBD (world)

World Listing

This business can be found on the following worlds and systems:

11 of 11 World articles in Hortalez et Cie

975-452  •  Ameros  •  Diablo (RD 2423)  •  Enos  •  Ershur (Ma 0504)  •  Gagaridir  •  Horosho  •  Miam  •  Noscius  •  Rubrak  •  Starn  •  

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