Country Farms

Established 2001. Produces 
organic meat and vegetables 
in rural China for export to major Asian cities.	Standard & Gold Bank

Long-established retail bank with more branches than any other bank. Respected and trusted. Emphasis on customer service with a personal touch.	Book World

The country's largest book and stationary chain with branches in every town and city.  Fully-automated stock control systems.	
Headley Motors

Car importer and retailer with
showrooms in every city. Currently opening new showrooms in emerging markets such as China. Strong on after service.	Z-com

Recently established Internet company focusing on Web 2.0. - especially collaborative work solutions for small and medium-sized businesses, and Internet conferencing.	China Country Side

Property company with offices in Hong Kong,  Macau, Toronto, and many other cities. Specializes in luxury sales and rentals along the coasts of Guangdong, Guangxi and  Fujian provinces.	
Gobe-Invest-X

Investment company with a number of high-performing funds that specialize in tech companies. Employs scientists to advise its fund managers.	RTR

Mass transit railway serving the city. Built 1965 – 1980. Equipped with an up-to-date fleet of electric trains. Fully computerized signalling, ticketing and information systems.	National Telecom

Landline, Internet and mobile provider.  The biggest telecoms firm in the country. Also produces its own landline and mobile handsets.
The president is the son of the current prime minister.	
WasteNot

Newly-established company specializing in waste disposal. Including toxic waste.	Energen

Country's leading electricity producer. Owns and operates 25 power stations: 18 coal-fired, 3 nuclear and four hydro-electric.	MedLine

Recently established health care firm offering on-line  medical care. Supplies each patient with a 'personal terminal' that measures heart rate, blood pressure etc. and relays the data to a clinic over the Internet.	
E-Money

Online-only bank offering a full range of banking, investment and insurance services. Consultations by secure Internet chat.	Happy-Go-Lucky Travel

Long-established and well-respected travel company famous for its reasonable prices and good value package tours.	CityCentre Realty

Large property rental firm
specializing in upmarket residential and business lettings in the central business district of the capital.	
GlobeTV

The country's main free-to-air TV station. Funded by advertising. Has produced well-loved TV comedy and drama programmes known to everyone. Large studios on the outskirts of the capital.	GreenPower

Recent start-up tech company focusing on alternatives to fossil fuels. On-going projects include an electric car, a wind-powered home and a recipe for making clean fuel from your toilet waste.	Zongo Confections

Large producer of biscuits, crisps, sweets. Products very popular with children.	
G-Plas

Plastics manufacturer producing everything from plastic packaging for food to computer parts and insulating cables.	Flexi-learn

Online education company specializing in online workplace training for employees. Very small but contracts with some major companies.	Drs Manson, Frobisher and Partners

Well-established private medical practice specializing in medical care for executives	

Result cards

Country Farms  

As fears of polluted food grow, organic food takes off in Asia. However, rising food prices globally prevent further growth. Still a niche market.

x 3	Standard & Gold Bank

The bank's management are traditional, conservative and unimaginative. People are more interested in convenience and good rates than personal service.
Went broke five years later.

Lose investment	Book World

Books continue to be popular to read, but customers move increasingly online to buy them. Traditional retail stores cannot compete. The only ones remaining five years later are highly specialized – law, medicine etc.
Lose investment	
Headley Motors

Expands rapidly at first, but eventually government concern over pollution, and the resultant taxes on car ownership curb growth. Remains limited to the luxury market.

x 2
	Z-com

Becomes the leading supplier of corporate Internet systems offering seamless solutions that allow companies to dispense with expensive IT departments as all of their computing is done online.

x 100	China Country Side

As pollution and high prices drive people from city centres and more and more people work from home, the demand for homes in the countryside, but near to cities such as Hong Kong, rockets.

x 30	
Gobe-Invest-X

The people who set up this firm were a bunch of crooks. When the bank collapsed, three years later, it became apparent that it had been set up as a criminal enterprise.

Lose investment	RTR

Still running but struggling.
More and more people are now working from home and have less need to go into the city centre. The huge overheads of 140 stations and 200kms of track make life very difficult for the company.
Investment halved.	National Telecom

Still in business but now the tenth largest telecoms provider. No one uses domestic landlines and although the company has sold off the infrastructure to Internet companies, they have failed to modernize.
Investment at 10% of original	
WasteNot

This company has gone stratospheric!  Waste is the profitable business to be in.

x 100	Energen

Have finally begun investing in greener technologies but the costs of this are keeping share prices in the doldrums

Investment at 25% of original value	MedLine

An interesting idea but people are not yet ready to trust online doctors. They want someone to listen to them.
Went out of business three years later.
Lose investment	
E-Money

Now one of the five largest banks in the country. 

x 20	Happy-Go-Lucky Travel

Went out of business four years later. People just don't need traditional travel agents when all the information and services they want can be found on the Internet

Lose investment	CityCentre Realty

Developments in networking technology mean that fewer workers and offices need to be located in traditional city centres. Demand for this kind of property begins to drop off.  Still in business but struggling
Investment at 20% of original value
	
GlobeTV

A change of management two years later resulted in a radical decision to  move much of the business online. As the technologies of the Internet and TV begin to merge, Globe manages to remain a major player.

x 20	GreenPower

Crazy people, crazy company. Some great ideas but these boffins never had the management skills to run a company. 
Still in business – just. They now operate out of someone's garage. More a hobby than a business

Investment at 1% of original	Zongo Confections

Obesity kills - and it killed Zongo. Fuelled by public alarm at ballooning children, strict new government regulations limiting the quantities of colourings, flavourings and sweeteners in this kind of food put the company out of business.

Lose investment	
G-Plas

The packaging and cable operations took hits from new environmental regulations and optical fibre technologies respectively. Still in business but demand for these plastics is much reduced.

Investment at 10% of original value.

	Flexi-learn

The company has become a leading provider of corporate training.

x 5	Drs Manson, Frobisher and Partners

People still worry about their health, and stress-related heart disease remains a major killer of executives. Business is steady.

x2