Wolf Armaments

Wolf Armaments (WA)

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Type	Public.
Traded as	WAI.
Industry	Arms Manufacturing, Distribution and Retail of Armaments. Military Goods (uniforms, equipment, etc.).
Predecessor	Wolf Foundries (1713) Wolf Industries (1723).
Successor	Wolf Armaments Incorporated.
Founded	1723.
Founder	Fran Grutmen.
Headquarters	375 Crown Avenue North, Empire City, Homeland State , TECT.
Number of locations	47,000+ (Manufacturing, Sales, and Offices included).
Area served	TECT, Luttenried, worldwide
Key people	CEO: Neil Stanly
Products	Full list of stocked sale items.
Services	Manufacturing, Retail, Sale.
Revenue	Overall: $95,618,816,144,893 NSD (as of 01/13/20). 2014: $6,105,041,610,140 NSD. 2015: $15,252,071,901,907 NSD. 2016: $8,812,540,797,625 NSD. 2017: $15,462,845,186,470 NSD. 2018: $16,534,876,915,521 NSD. 2019: $32,972,960,860,470 NSD. 2020: 85,722,000,000 NSD 2021: $1,612,424,729,500 NSD. 2022: $5,167,811,273,642 NSD. 2023: $6,380,507,172,371 NSD.(As of 07/11/24).
Total assets	N/A.
Owner	Neil Stanly 50% Emperor JC 21%. Kauvers International Holdings LLC. 11%. Government of Kazirstan 1.45%. Lyran Governmental Trade Department 5.26%. Alexander Ulmer with Imperial Defense Initiative 11.29%.
Number of employees	5 Million+.
Divisions	Small Arms, Munitions (heavy weapons and ordinances), Ground Foundry, Air Foundry, Shipyard.
Subsidiaries	Commoner League Inc.. Germanic Defense Conglomerate.
Website	www.WolfArms.org.

Wolf Armaments Incorporated, or known simply as Wolf Armaments for short, is a publicly owned, family operated, arms manufacturing company based in The Empire of Common Territories. The corporation has worldwide operations, including locations (manufacturing plants, shipyards, gun stores, etc.), export sales (notably to foreign governments), and subsidiaries/partnerships (Commoner League Inc. being an example of the former, and the Lamoni Government sales partnership as a latter). Wolf Armaments is the largest arms manufacturing and distribution company in TECT, and one of the largest in the world. Everything from small arms of various caliber, to soldier supplies & equipment, munitions of all shape & sizes, vehicles of varying armament & armor, aircraft with differing roles, warships of different size and purpose, technology and research/development, and other military hardware is produced and sold by Wolf Armaments.

Throughout its history, Wolf Armaments has provided firearms and other weapon technology to the TECT Armed Forces and its many private buyers; Wolf Armaments has produced armaments since it first opened its doors to arms production in the 16th century. The company was originally founded in 1723 by Fran Grutmen, a metal smith belonging to the Grutmen Dukedom (the Grutmen Family head was/still is a Duke who once presided over part of the eastern regions of the Empire's Homeland) as the grandson to then Duke Ferdinand Grutmen. Fran's interests differed from his family's original trade, which at the time was expensive metal smithy work; the Grutmen Household was well known for its high quality jewelry crafting, decorative metallurgy designs, and having the honor of designing the Imperial Crown not once but multiple times. At first Fran was merely intrigued with cannon and rifle technology, but years later he became infatuated with both the weapons and soldiers that used them. At the age of twenty-two, Frans opened a side-business in secret aside from his family's work, producing muskets and ball ammunition for the Lords within the Dukedom and even some Imperial Army units; when his business expanded to accepting official government contracts, the Grutmen Family was displeased to learn of the heir's course of action. Aside from punishment and complete lack of support, Fran was left to continue his business practices using his own earnings. When Fran's grandfather passed away from old age and his father died from stomach cancer shortly after, Fran inherited the title of Duke and the keys to the Grutmen Company at the young age of thirty. One of Fran's first actions as Duke was immediately turning the family business away from metal crafting and into armaments production - muskets and ammo, not gold and earrings. The same week he took over, Fran Grutmen had already began converting his family's workshops into manufacturing facilities so they could begin making firearms, ammunition, cannons, and howitzers. Although slow to start, and suffering tremendously at first, the Gutmen Company, now renamed Wolf Industries, began a steady climb as a moderately impressive armaments startup. The company became one of the first small arms and cannon manufacturing businesses founded in the Empire and was arguably the first large business not state-owned/sanctioned to do so. Wolf Armaments, through cooperation with the government, has produced domestic weapons for the military and seen profitable growth for over three hundred years thanks to the Grutmen's close ties to the Royal Family. When Wolf Armaments actually began exporting armaments in the twentieth century, business exploded further, expanding into everything from producing guns, to tanks, to eventually working on warships and planes too. With approval from the Imperial Government, Wolf Armaments sold its wares and services to whomever they could reach.

Seeing too much power in their business and political success, Emperor Charles I Decreed Wolf Industries would become State Owned in 1891. Although pushback occurred within the Grutmen Family, serious pushback only occurred outside the Dukedom's Palace within the Duke's vassalages. Wolf Industries' going public by force of Imperial Authority was one of the initial sparks that lead to the 1891 Nobleman Insurrection. Although the Grutmen Dukedom sided with the Empire (for too many reasons to list), some of Grutmen's own vassals eventually sided with the revolting Nobles, resulting in secession of several territories within the Dukedom. Wolf Industries, now Wolf Armaments, was under Imperial authority but remained largely under the care of the Grutmen Family. Using the revolt as proper excuse to maintain the original Decree, the Empire and Emperor Charles I took majority shares of Wolf Armaments while a few allies within the Emperor's circle gained fractional shares; Grutmen was allowed to hold the third largest stake as well as continue operating the business as it had always been. This arrangement would largely go unchanged until one hundred years later in 1991 when Charles II rescinded the Decree his father created. Charles II, instead of merely releasing the company back entirely to the Grutmen Family, returned Wolf Armaments on the condition it would become entirely publicly traded. Although the Empire would retain a fraction of its original shares, everyone else but the Grutmen Family would have their shares sold back to the Grutmen Family unless Duke Grutmen agreed to honor them. Now as CEO and returning majority owner, Duke Neil Grutmen worked with authorities from the Imperial Stock Exchange to have Wolf Armaments listed in 1992. The last major shift in ownership of Wolf Armaments occurred in 2010 when newly crowned Emperor Johannes Christoph Karl Decreed the shares owned by the Imperial Government would be transferred to the Emperor's Treasury, a controversial decision to this day even though the Emperor has paid back the Imperial Treasury for the transfer in ownership. Years later foreign entities would also become part owners of Wolf Armaments with approval from the Imperial Congress for specific shares to be sold abroad.

Wolf Armament's primary customer base is situated in TECT; its domestic sales include annual sales to the TECT Armed Forces (which also include research and development projects), Imperial Vassals such as Luttenried, and private customers throughout the country. Domestic sales make up the largest bulk of profits for Wolf Armaments since the country possesses an ever growing military and is home to arguably the world's largest Private Military Company, Commoner League Incorporated. Closely trailing behind domestic sales are exports/services to foreign governments, organizations, and private customers located all over the world; Wolf Armaments is able to maintain at least $40 Trillion NSD within five year periods through exports alone while domestic income varies between double to quadruple that figure in the same time frame. Other sources of profit include stocks, investments, partnerships, above and below-board arms trafficking (allegedly), and other miscellaneous sources of income using private services (such as consulting and technology trade). Wolf Armaments is majority owned by its Commoner owners Duke Neil Grutmen and Emperor Johannes Christoph Karl; minority owners hold no more than eleven percent of shares at largest count. The Grutmen Household has always operated the company as a family business since its creation. Emperor Alexander Ulmer with Imperial Defense Initiative is the third largest share holder of Wolf Armaments with little over eleven percent of stock in their portfolio. Imperial Defense Initiative is a Romician arms company that holds domestic production licenses to manufacture Wolf Armament products for the Romician military. Remaining stockholders include Kauvers International Holdings LLC., which holds exactly eleven percent of shares, the Lyran Governmental Trade Department which holds a little more than five percent of shares, and the Government of Kazirstan, which hold almost one-in-a-half percent of shares.

Wolf Armaments manufactures a wide variety of military oriented products. As an arms manufacturer and dealer, Wolf Armaments produces a diverse stock of weapons, equipment, vehicles, aircraft, sea faring vessels, military technology, and soldier paraphernalia. Wolf Armaments, according to Imperial Law and Royal Decree, must have all foreign sales approved by at least the TECT Emperor or the TECT Congress' Committee on Foreign Affairs and Committee on Trade & Goods; the Emperor, as the minority's top shareholder with the second largest holding, manages to keep the company free of complicated congressional wait times thanks to his attentive response to Wolf Armaments business handling, essentially giving most arms deals a "fast-pass" through legal hurdles. Thanks to this, Wolf Armaments' export profits have exploded and have brought in $46,072,966,625,968 NSD in the last five years alone (as of 01/16/18).