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 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 society. Founded in 221 by Lucienne Hortalez, capitalized 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)
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)
Best Known Products & Services
This business is best known for:
- Banking and Finance
History & Background (Dossier)
It was founded in 221 by Lucienne Hortalez, capitalized from family funds.
- Older logos used throughout spinward space since the 800s.
Trade Partners
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:
Daibei Sector
Hortalez et Cie maintains a regional office on 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:
World Listing
This business can be found on the following worlds and systems:
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References
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- John Harshman, Marc Miller, Loren Wiseman. Library Data (A-M) (Game Designers Workshop, 1981), .
- Marc Miller. Referee's Companion (Game Designers Workshop, 1988), .
- Rob Caswell. "Megacorporations in the Rebellion Era." MegaTraveller Journal 3 (1992): 20.
- Charles E. Gannon. Hard Times (Game Designers Workshop, 1991), 56-57.
- Martin Dougherty. Solomani Front (Mongoose Publishing, 2021), 83.
- Christopher Griffen. The Third Imperium (Mongoose Publishing, 2021), 58.