Mamala Combine
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Native name | ⵎⴰⵎⴰⵍⴰ ⴻⵔⵜⴻⵢ Mamala Ertey |
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| Founded | 1921 |
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Key people | Ifri Parsa (Chairman) |
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| Services | Logistics and transport |
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The Mamala Combine (Tamashek: ⵎⴰⵎⴰⵍⴰ ⴻⵔⵜⴻⵢ, Mamala Ertey, tr. "Trade Combine") is a Scipian industrial group headquartered in Agnannet, Charnea. It comprises several affiliated businesses in the related and overlapping industries of resource extraction, chemical industry, and plastics manufacturing, as well as the supporting sectors of construction and transportation. Most of the Combine's subsidiary companies are under the Mamala brand name. Mamala is one of the largest commercial giants in Scipia, and the largest of Charnea's Big Four conglomerate enterprises. The business was established in 1925 through the merging of many of the regional trading companies of the western Ninva, earning the business its name. Izul Parsa, Azday Harron and Anwal Azi were among the founders of the combine, and would become important figures in the push to bring the Charnean economy into the 20th century through a rigorous program of industrialization with resource extraction serving as its basis. Over the course of the 20th century, the Mamala Combine and its leading figures would become one of the driving forces behind the expansion and diversification of the Charnean economy, contributing to the transition from an economy based on pure extraction and export of resources to one based on increasingly complex refining, processing and manufacturing businesses based on the available natural resources of central Scipia.
The key to Mamala's success as an industrial giant of the Charnean economy has been the creation of integrated industrial chains through vertical expansion of the conglomerates business enterprises. Mamala has stakes in various elements of the economy from mining and extraction to the distribution and sale of finished consumer products. The Combine's expansion has also been aided by a generally cooperative Charnean government and its highly involved dirigist economic policies which Mamala has been able to capitalize on more successfully than other business entities in Charnea. Taken as a whole, the Mamala Combine's activities represent 10% of Charnea's national GDP, making the Combine an indispensable pillar of the Charnean economy and giving it significant influence in the government. However, this has become a circular relationship over the course of recent decades thanks to Mamala's reliance on state-owned petrochemical suppliers for the bulk of its business and the immovable nature of much of its extraction enterprises, granting the government a degree of leverage. It is in part because of this inter-reliance between the state and the Combine that Mamala was the first of the Big Four to reach an agreement with the new government to renew and affirm standing contracts and business arrangements and secure the flow of commerce.
Industrial activities
Plastics
Mamala was the first Charnean enterprise to enter the plastics business and continues to maintain its position as the national industry leader. The portion of the plastics business under the Combine's control is split over several subsidiary companies, each involved in different stages of the manufacturing process. Mamala Chemical is primarily in the business of bulk production of petrochemical products and polymers used in later stages of manufacturing, chiefly polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride, and other large-volume products in high demand on the global market and especially among the industrialized secondary sector economies on the Scipian continent. These are produced and exported in the form of preproduction plastic pellets, of which Mamala Chemical is one of the largest producers in the world. The raw materials required for the production of plastic polymers in such volumes are available at relatively low cost in Charnea from the state-owned COPEC petrochemical and energy conglomerate, which supplies the necessary petrochemicals and raw materials to Mamala affiliate companies at significantly subsidized rates as part of a long standing agreement between the Combine and the Charnean government to induce further growth in the Charnean plastics and chemicals industry.
Besides producing the plastic pellet materials used in manufacturing across the continent, the Mamala Combine has also established itself in several downstream elements of the plastics manufacturing industry. The Polymeric Textiles Corporation, a Mamala subsidiary, manufactures polyester, nylon and acrylic fibers and textile products used in the production of clothing. Engineering plastics as well as a variety of related chemical products of a more specialized nature than the bulk production output of Mamala Chemical is produced by the Mamala Engineering company, a plastics engineering firm representing the leading edge of the Mamala Combine in terms of industrial sophistication. The medical arm of Mamala's business activities is an extension of the group's hold on the plastics industry. Mamala Medical manufactures medical grade plastics used in a wide variety of medical contexts, and is one of the leaders of the drug packaging industry in Scipia. It is not a pharmaceutical subsidiary but rather an manufacturing company specializing in medical equipment and packaging.
Mining
Mining is one of the quintessential industries of Charnea and the basis of its industrialization, and as a result was one of the first areas which the Mamala Combine elected to expand into. Between 1933 and 1960, the Mamala Combine set about purchasing various mines and extraction firms across southern and eastern Charnea, consolidating them under the Mamala Mining company which now stands as the second largest extraction firm in Charnea behind petroleum giant COPEC. Mamala Mining owns and operates the Nagamina open-pit mine in the Adjer mountains of eastern Charnea, which is the largest mine in the country and has proven to be an exceptionally lucrative goldmine. However, precious metals are generally a side business for the Mamala Mining company, which is primarily interested in the extraction of copper and other more mundane industrial metals used by the Mamala Machine Industries subsidiary to manufacture electrical wiring, machine tools and other products using the supply of metals and plastics produced by Mamala's other subsidiary companies.
Construction
Mamala Construction was established as one of the conglomerate's first outgrowths from the trading and transportation sectors as an in-house construction firm which primarily serviced Mamala's own construction needs for production facilities, worker housing, offices, as well as transportation and logistics infrastructure which was in great demand as both the business began to expand rapidly in the late 1920s and through the 1930s. This construction firm was established as a means of keeping the necessary expert crews and engineers on the company's payroll, as the then-weak and undeveloped Charnean economy offered little demand for such services which in turn made it difficult to fill construction contracts in a cost effective manner. Mamala Construction would soon branch out, however, as the rest of the Charnean economy began to boom as well during the mid-20th century, resulting in skyrocketing demand for new construction which Mamala was well positioned to capitalize on. The company is now known as Charnea's only skyscraper construction engineering firm, erecting several notable skyscrapers in Charnea and abroad including the Mamala Combine's headquarters in Mamala Tower.
Services
Transportation and distribution services are the foundation upon which the Mamala Combine was built, as the business originated as a conglomerate of trading companies exporting valuable commodities in the early 1920s by rail, truck, and at times, by camel. Freight has remained an important component of Mamala's business as the final leg of the Combine's various integrated industrial chains carrying the products of Mamala subsidiary companies to foreign and domestic markets for final sale. Mamala's transport business, sometimes referred to as the core business within the Combine, is branded as Mamala Global. This company stands today as an important player in the rail freight and logistics business in Scipia.
Government
| Board of Directors | |
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| Names | Position(s) |
| Ifri Parsa | Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer |
| Ignim Harron | Chief Financial Officer |
| Tzila Nour | Chief Operations Officer |
| Zira Kader | CEO of Mamala Chemical |
| Rais Gali | CEO of Mamala Engineering |
| Yufran ag Salah | CEO of Mamala Mining |
| Isula Mir | Independent director |
| Tanermat Arzen | Independent director |
| Anzer ag Bikul | Independent director |