WegMaCo Shareholder Address

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Transcript of Shareholder Address

Speaker: Arthur Martinet-Farris (Vice President)

April 9th, 2385 ESY

Gavin Martinet Memorial Corporate Summit Center
Ophir Planum, Mars

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Good morning, everyone. Shareholders, board members. Dear friends, thank you for being here. Some of you made a long journey. So if you’ll allow it, I will skip the preamble. I am ecstatic to share that your investment in WegMaCo, your continued trust in our vision and expertise, has been rewarded: Every single revenue stream, from consumer goods to interstellar transit, has seen significant gains over the last fiscal year. 

Overall profit has increased 26%. (Long Applause). Our direct-to-consumer products are ubiquitous, now found in 95% of all human habitations and businesses, and 90% of those contain six or more of our product lines. We, of course, continue to do far more than just deliver our own products to the far corners of space. Our transport fleet services every human inhabited planet, moon, station and asteroid in the solar system - and more than a few automated installations!

That fleet numbers an astounding <REDACTED> space-going vessels, including bulk freighters and tiny, fast courier ships. Each ship, every crew member, has a singular goal: on-time and intact delivery of critical shipments, be that drinking water, a complete orbital platform module or a single data drive. Last year, our efforts moved more than 471 billion tons of cargo, and accounted for 78% of all freight. (Light Applause) 

Amazing, isn’t it? Our customers know that whatever they are ordering or shipping, wherever it is going, we will make it happen. Not some other corporation, cooperative or government entity. It's hardly a boast. I say that with all humility. Our partners and clients don’t merely hire us; we don’t just do a job for them. When you contract with WegMaCo, you join the WegMaCo family. This company was founded, built and run on family ethics, and that is how it is still managed today. If you call someone family, you’d better mean it. That’s because you have a responsibility to them. We have a responsibility. A responsibility to humanity. No, not just to you, our shareholders! (Laughter).

Despite these uncertain times, business must go on, and business owners from Earth to the Belt know that seamless supply chains are prerequisites for profit. Logistics are, in fact, destiny. You can’t leave destiny up to chance. Our friends understand that if they want their own endeavors to flourish, they must partner with WegMaCo. Only we work so closely with our partners that we can anticipate their needs before they do. It’s no wonder they stick with us for the long haul: they can count on us to be there for them, right behind them, every step of the way. 

Take the Echelon Group, for instance, one of our longest and most prosperous partnerships. At first, they turned to us because they were forced to. In desperation. They were out of options for delivering their sensitive, valuable products to the most demanding clients and the wolves were at their door. Early on in discussions, they frankly told us it couldn’t be done. In time, WegMaCo showed them that, when everyone works together, it could. We, in turn, learned so, so much from them.

We learned that we don’t just make and sell goods. We don’t just ship cargo. We don’t just provide logistics. (silence for 3.1 seconds) We deliver outcomes. WegMaCo sells something, one thing, that money has never been able to buy, not since time immemorial: WegMaCo sells certainty. And in today’s competitive marketplace, certainty is the only commodity that matters.

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My friends, on behalf of the executive staff and every WegMaCo employee, from our assembly line workers to our brave spaceship crews, thank you for your trust and investment. I can promise this year, and every year hence, the rewards will be even better than the last. Together, we’ll keep civilization moving through the stars. (Applause) Thank you, thank you. Please, enjoy yourselves and your stay. I will speak with some of you shortly. Thank you!

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(Footsteps, indistinct speech) Uh huh. If they like those numbers, the fourth quarter is sure going to blow their hair back. Just watch. You, fetch me a water, won’t you? Mineral water this time, please! Are we ready for our ten-thirty? Good. To real business, the Prosperity situation. The fix is in. Ah, what was the name of that dirtgrubber collective moving the ore, Daimyo something? (indistinct speech) Dairo, that’s it, thank you, Thomas. 
VisalCorp and Echelon both look like fools thanks to the efforts of the valiant miners, a real PR disaster and as intended. The last screw we had to turn. Their shares are already floundering and we’ll soon have majority ownership. Patience. (indistinct speech) What about the ore? Eye on the ball, Thomas, a hundred-million is a rounding error. In any case, we can shift a few bulkers from the Triangle to move all they can dig up. They’ve got no one else, make sure the rate is outrageous.
My what? Damn it…

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Illustration by Eldon Cowgar