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Olbrecht Signs Deals With Foreign Company; Car Industry Sees Rise Amids Good Export Partners.
August, 5548


An Alchester Motors' DB12 Coupe sold at a Luthorian car dealer.

Fort William - The Alchester Motor Company’s Chief Executive Officer, George Olbrecht was spotted meeting Narik-Darnussian companies representatives in the Ambassador Hotel in Fort William. The CEO’s meetings with Narik-Darnussian representatives wasn’t known, although some might say that it was about access to Narik-Dundorfian markets for the Alchester Motor Company, who tries since some time now to outpace their main competitor in the Rivers Motors by increasing the locations of where their cars could be accessible. While both companies are looking certain to have their exports being accepted in Beiteynu, a country filled with competition coming out from either Dundorf, Lourenne or even surprisingly, Baeguk (Dankuk) and also while Commonwealth and Luthorian-aligned markets are (mostly) secured - with some exceptions that would be “looked upon” either by the Trade High Commissioner or the Minister of State for Trade and Commerce, and while other international markets are slowly getting themselves out of “isolation”, according to some political or overjoyed economic columnists. Olbrecht’s meetings with these representatives seemed to be done “in a good, respectful and straight-foward mood”, mostly focused around lowering the costs of production by “delocalizing” some part of the production in other countries by siding sides of the production of X product in another nation where the cost of the worker is significantly lower than the cost of production in the home territory itself.

While Narikaton and Darnussia is considered to be one of the worlds’ largest economies, it is also considered to have a production cost lower than the one present in Luthori, due to the deregulated nature of their economy, compared to the Luthorian economy which is following the principles of “State Capitalism”, and due to that and its location, close to the Luthorian homeland for the needs of the production chain, a platform of discussion with their companies on that subject was established to discuss the possibility, with the aim of reducing costs for production of the DB12 Coupe and its variant, the DB12 Volante. What came out of these meetings was a positive response, with an unnamed Narik-Darnussian company reaching a deal with the Alchester Motor Company for the production of the chassis of both car models. This company would use Narikaton and Darnussia’s iron for creating these chassis, which would be then shipped off to Luthori to complete the overall construction of the car. This agreement is likely to, as per with the said objective, reduce production costs for the Alchester Motor Company, as well as not lose a lot of money from this deal, as the AMC, according to some, didn’t give out a lot of the car’s sales profits to this company, due to the fact that most of the work is still done in Luthori and that car is still shipped off from Luthori.

Another objective that this deal succeeded to do is the accessibility of Luthorian cars in the Narik-Darnussian market, something that was thought to be highly complicated due to the country’s apparent closeness to the Dundorfians and to their car industry. Some people stated that the Narik-Darnussian accessibility of their market “was harder than first thought, in an unusual way”, as even the Canrillaise Empire’s market was allowed to be breached by both the DB12 and the Flying Spur electric variants, which are sold at an higher price due to the increased production costs coming from the battery that need to be installed in every single cars that are produced and aimed at the direction of the Canrillaise market. Other nations which are seeing an increase in Luthorian auto exports excluding Lourenne and Narikaton and Darnussia are Aldegar, Kalistan, Beiteynu, Mordusia and Lodamun. The latter two are quite interesting as the Luthorians seem to have retaken interest in Commonwealth/Luthorian-speaking states trading partnerships with the return of a “responsible government” in both Likatonia and Mordusia, something that the Luthorian Foreign Office congratulated wholeheartedly. Although it should be pointed out that the Commonwealth of Lodamun’s Merchant-General and the Luthorian High Commissioner for Trade are going to meet in Fort William for discussing the restoring of trade between Luthori and a Lodamun which is no longer part of the Commonwealth framework.

Said meeting is going to happen in the “aftermath” of the current ministerial deadlock in Parliament and the resolution of the conflict within the Conservative Party in regards to their position in regards to the Occupation of Rapa Pile by the Vascanian Empire as Gaklington and the Government are looking more likely to torpedo the backbenchers Bill in the Imperial Diet as it passed in the Imperial Senate without much difficulty and with the support of the Leader of the Imperial Senate, who resigned yesterday amid “critical disagreements” with the Prime Minister over policy conducts and overall foreign policy engagements and decisions. With such an influential politician having left the Government, Mr. Gaklington’s days at Crown Street seem numbered and another one of his peers, either in the Diet or the Senate could be entitled to take his place as Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury.