Yep that's their field and they're the success story of the decade. Don't forget they have extensive assets in South America and the merger with Finninvest made them the top dog in Europe.

Entertainment is not Ares forte. They don't possess that many assets and AGE trails globally.

With Japan and North Am its major markets and a number of other high yield fields of interest, it should still lose out to corps that make it their sole area of interest.

That info is slightly out of date by 2063 and while DeMeKo ranks pretty high its not as diversified as the Sol Group (which also dabbles in MSPs, luxury and tourism industries) and so fell just outside the Eurocorp Top 15 in SoE (it was in the top 20 though).

I think Nath probably has our writeups for Rhurmetall, IFMU, DeMeKo, Eurotronics Consortium and European Motor Company somewhere. Don't remember Teltech but both Mueller-Schluter Infotech (see SoE p.25) and Schering Pharma are part of AG Chemie (the latter was too specialized to mention). Note that Stern Pharma one of the AG Chemie consortium's core members belongs to Spinrad Industries.

In the works, some of them slightly modified so they're not so dark.

Yes, you spelled it right.
DeMeKo is short for "Deutsche Medien- und Kommunikations-AG" (German Media and Communications Corporation).

It's "Schering" - the sound that Anglophones write SH is spelled SCH in German.
According to "Walzer, Punks & Schwarzes ICE" Schering is a subsidiary of AG Chemie Europa.
That fact became public during the corporate takeover of Berlin in 2055.

Thank you for not putting it in Games Unplugged.

Hmm...AG Chemie Europe is a 69. I wonder what Yakashima is, then. Maybe 70 or 71. Possibly equal with or above Novatech. Well, hopefully Shadows of Asia will tell us.

I don't remember any particular reference to Yakashima size. They just happen to be cited regularly. At least until 2057, their strategy was only to buy out companies, dismantle them and make a profit over it. Not the way you accumulate hard assets (in 2057, Dunkelzahn gave them 150 millions to be used only for R&D, which could have impulsed a change of policy). In theory it should be smaller than Monobe International, which according to Blood in the Boardroom was the candidate for a Japanese "Big Eleventh" (supported by Shiawase, Mitsuhama and Renraku to recreate a Japanese power block on the Corporate Court after the fall of Fuchi and the depart of Yamatetsu).

Besides, as any stats, the CDL rating system has its flaws and do not adequately represent the complete truth. A company with very weak assets in every sector easily outdoes a specialized world leader. Just to try adequately rate Lone Star or DocWagon (or Wal-Mart for that matter), you're going to get disapointing numbers. Also, sectors like Magic, Military tech and Cybernetics weight as much as very broad categories like Services (transport+security+hostellery+...) or Heavy Industry (energy+carmaking+construction+...). If I had to justify the system somehow, I'd say it does not show relative size but rather a corporation's stability against the markets' ups and downs that can occur in the different segment of the world economy, or something like that. Extraterritoriality cannot be granted to unstable corps, no matter who big they are, if they can crumble overnight (think 'dot anything') and leave enclaves and citizens out in the open.

Oh, an it's Zeta-ImpChem who get the 69.

Yes, my bad. I just read again CD yesterday.

Thx, you're the man