LlamaTransport

LlamaTransport™ is a multi-national trademark used by group of companies multiworldwide. These companies provide also franchise licenses to various enterpreneurs who wish to use this trademark of quality in their business by compliance with respective franchise agreement.

Branches
Currently LlamaTransport™ Group (LTG) consists of following branches:


 * LlamaTransport™ Trading Company (LTTC)
 * LlamaTransport™ Marine (LTM)
 * LlamaTransport™ AirLines (LTAL)
 * LlamaTransport™ A.C.M.E. (Anything Crafting & Mining Enterprise)

Franchises in various countries, cities, or towns, use prefix of respective branch with geographic specification, e.g.: LlamaTransport™ Sironvir Trading Company (name used in the local market of Sironia) a.k.a. LlamaTransport™ Sironia Trading Company (name used for foreign trade in countries where LTTC does not have its local branch).

LlamaTransport Trading Company
This was historically the first of the branches which ever existed. It evolved from simple business of a farmer whose name is not publicly available. He initially owned two llamas, which were left in his village by a wandering trader who was killed by the lightning during the stormy night. Panicking llamas destroyed the crops in his garden, so he kept them as compensation.

He was unable to milk them and he didn't want simply to kill them for the meat and the leather, so he started to breed them first. And as he was growing a special wheat with deep roots, some llama offsprings became quite strong - stronger which was the usual standard. They were able to bear significantly more cargo than their ancestors. So he killed all weaker llamas for the leather, chained a packtrain caravan of heavy-cargo llamas, loaded them with all of his belongings, and left his village. In the other words, he became a next generation wandering trader, while his business model was this:


 * wandering around the world, selling goods for higher prices, buying other goods for lower prices (including wheat bales for llama breeding)
 * breeding llamas on the way, killing weaker for more goods, and using the stronger as new packtrain caravan members

As he was also a farmer, he was also advantageously growing his special wheat anywhere he was usually wandering or camping, which helped him to feed his llamas and baking the bread also for himself. Soon, amount of his heavy-cargo llamas exceeded the optimal count of specimens in caravan packtrain (which is 10, as he found out), so he started to build a next one, firstly pendling between llama stations with caravans one by one, later hiring other wandering traders, replicating his business model this way, and sharing profits with them.

As was the number of his wandering traders with caravans growing, he started not to be able to manage all of them, so he started also with regional branches and their regional directors, taking general orders from and reporting to the headquarters. He opened also the franchise option for another enterpreneurs like him, who didn't want to become just his employees but the operate more independently (while maintaining compliance with rules given by signed LlamaTransport Trading Company Franchise Agreement).

LlamaTransport Sironvir Trading Company in Rodheros
One of such franchise companies is the one established in Rodheros by Rodherodotos, Ernst VenIshtara, and Andronikos Constantine.

(To be specified in more detail later.)

LlamaTransport Marine
Expansion of the business of LTTC was hindered by larger bodies of water like seas and oceans, because llamas packtrain caravans were not able to overcome them reasonably fast. Therefore LTM was established to specialize on the development of seaways operated by vessels automated by redstone. These vessels (built under separate non-LlamaTransport trademarking) are able to transport not only llamas, but also chestboats and especially chestcarts. LTM is co-holding several patents in this area, which are not covered by LTTC Franchise Agreement, and separate LTM Franchise Agreement is required to be signed to join this lucrative business, because LTG is not the sole owner of these patents.

LlamaTransport AirLines
The practise has shown, that LTM was not always the optimal solution to support long-distance trade of LTTC, because it was often too complicated to transport containers by the ground and the sea over yet longer distances - multiple embarking and disembarking was often required. So LTG together with his undisclosed engineering partner from LTM implemented several designs of flying aircrafts able to transport cargo (llamas, chestcarts) over any distance. LTAL is co-holding several patents in this area, which are not covered by LTTC Franchise Agreement nor LTM Franchise Agreement, and separate LTAL Franchise Agreement is required to be signed to join this yet more lucrative business.

LlamaTransport™ A.C.M.E.
As LTTC found out, some goods / products were quite expensive or completely unavailable by the suppliers, so it started also to get mining and factory building licenses in various places in the world, and to mine & craft various materials and products as the goods to be available for selling. Therefore LT A.C.M.E branch was established, to fulfill this mission multiworldwide.