You run a small company with four factories focusing on food production. As a
competent manager, you have put every possible effort into improving your
business. But now bottlenecks have sprung up with the raw materials suppliers and have sprung up. Your suppliers miss shipping dates even during peak
seasons, causing you huge losses, and your retailers have been pressuring you to
lower prices for your products to a level at which your company would have
a hard time making a profit.
All these facts indicate that only vertical integration -- setting up your
own farms and supermarkets -- can keep your company afloat.
If you can execute your vertical integration plan and dominate the
farming, manufacturing, and retail industries, and achieve an annual revenue of $800 million within 30 years, you will be rewarded with 80 bonus points.
To increase competition and make the game more challenging, beverage, pasta, and spice products are excluded here. The stock market is also disabled in this scenario.
