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==Overview==
 
==Overview==
  
The largest privately owned corporation in [[The Freethinker Commonwealth]], employing over four million people worldwide and boasting annual sales in excess of 3 trillion [[Mintel]]s. The company is in fact a conglomerate of many different companies and firms, each with a specialised function, and the result is a company that can, in the words of Managing director [[Sir Alan Talbot]], provide and implement ''any and every solution to any and every problem you could present to us, as quickly and efficiently as possible.''
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Freethinker Defence Industries (Group), also knoown as '''FDI''', is the largest privately owned corporation in [[The Freethinker Commonwealth]], employing over four million people in the Commonwealth and worldwide and boasting annual sales in excess of 3 trillion [[Mintel]]s, supplying scores of national and private clients with some of the most powerful security and engeineering hardware. Most famous for its vast Naval catalogue and novel innovations in the Maritime world, FDI provides a full range of land, sea, and air military and non-military solutions for the protection and security of a client's state or company. The company has also recently expanded its own sector base as well, moving more fully into civilian shipbuilding, security services and even oil extraction.
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The corporation is in fact a sprawling conglomerate of many different companies and firms, each with a specialised function, with the result that FDI can, in the words of Managing director [[Sir Alan Talbot]], "''design, build, maintain and manage hundreds of different solutions to almost any security threat or situation you can barely even imagine''. The company prides itself on not only building and supplying new equipment, but offering full in-service support, trials, system training and refit and SLEP programs, providing full-life support for any weapon system offered. This, it is claimed, is what sets the company apart from its many rivals in the arms manufacturing and trading world.
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Recently, the company has gone on a huge overseas expansion program, looking to acquire new facilities, personnel, and client lists. Its achieved its first success in acquiring the huge [[Knootian]] defence firm the [[Heraclitus Group]], and other avenues of expansion are also being looked at.  
  
 
==Domestic Subsidiaries==
 
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===Domestic Competition and Monopoly Laws===
 
===Domestic Competition and Monopoly Laws===
The sheer size and marketing power of the FDI conglomerate have bought many enquiries from the Office of Fair Trading into just how much of a monopoly FDI holds in its competing markets.
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The sheer size and marketing power of the FDI conglomerate have bought many enquiries from the Office of Fair Trading into just how much of a monopoly FDI holds in its competing markets and how this affects proper competition within these trading areas.
  
 
===Government Lobbying===
 
===Government Lobbying===
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The sheer economic power of the company has bought much controversy with regards to how much influence FDI wields within the Freethinker Government, especially within the Ministry of Defence.
  
 
===Security Force===
 
===Security Force===

Revision as of 07:22, 20 October 2005

Freethinker Defence Industries
Headquarters: Navarre, The Freethinkers
Nationality: The Freethinkers
Specialty: Arms Manufacturing, Shipbuilding and Oil Production
Storefront: http://s7.invisionfree.com/FDI

Overview

Freethinker Defence Industries (Group), also knoown as FDI, is the largest privately owned corporation in The Freethinker Commonwealth, employing over four million people in the Commonwealth and worldwide and boasting annual sales in excess of 3 trillion Mintels, supplying scores of national and private clients with some of the most powerful security and engeineering hardware. Most famous for its vast Naval catalogue and novel innovations in the Maritime world, FDI provides a full range of land, sea, and air military and non-military solutions for the protection and security of a client's state or company. The company has also recently expanded its own sector base as well, moving more fully into civilian shipbuilding, security services and even oil extraction.

The corporation is in fact a sprawling conglomerate of many different companies and firms, each with a specialised function, with the result that FDI can, in the words of Managing director Sir Alan Talbot, "design, build, maintain and manage hundreds of different solutions to almost any security threat or situation you can barely even imagine. The company prides itself on not only building and supplying new equipment, but offering full in-service support, trials, system training and refit and SLEP programs, providing full-life support for any weapon system offered. This, it is claimed, is what sets the company apart from its many rivals in the arms manufacturing and trading world.

Recently, the company has gone on a huge overseas expansion program, looking to acquire new facilities, personnel, and client lists. Its achieved its first success in acquiring the huge Knootian defence firm the Heraclitus Group, and other avenues of expansion are also being looked at.

Domestic Subsidiaries

Blackwatch

Location
Navarre, Freethinker Mainland
Product/Expertise
Security Services
Personnel
125,000

Navarre Naval Shipyards

Location
Navarre, Freethinker Mainland
Product/Expertise
Full Maritime Engineering and Research/Development
Personnel
450,000

Thompson Engineering

Location
Navarre, Freethinker Mainland
Product/Expertise
Military/Civilian Engines, Power Plants and Research/Development
Personnel
55,000

International Subsidiaries

Heraclitus Group

Location
Hengolo, Knootoss
Product/Expertise
Full Maritime Engineering, Full Aerospace Engineering, Research/Development and IT & Services
Personnel
322,000

Relationship with the Government

Controversies

Domestic Competition and Monopoly Laws

The sheer size and marketing power of the FDI conglomerate have bought many enquiries from the Office of Fair Trading into just how much of a monopoly FDI holds in its competing markets and how this affects proper competition within these trading areas.

Government Lobbying

The sheer economic power of the company has bought much controversy with regards to how much influence FDI wields within the Freethinker Government, especially within the Ministry of Defence.

Security Force

Perhaps the most controversial aspect of the company is the large, paramilitary security force known as the Blackwatch.