Denver-Carrington
The epicenter of the powerful international oil conglomerate was established in the 1950s and still holds its place as one of the leading super majors on the oil and natural gas market today. Headquartered in Denver, Colorado and founded by the late Blake Carrington, the expansive company is run by CEO Kristina Cannon and traded on several international stock exchanges. In just over its fiftieth year in operation, Denver-Carrington heralds development in 200 countries on six continents. With the advent of the Superpump in the 1990s, and the breakthrough drilling project in the Russian Black Sea in 2008, Denver-Carrington continues to remain on the forefront of innovate and cost effective, environmentally sound drilling practices. Continuing to pursue the expanse of alternative energy, Denver-Carrington has pioneered developments in solar and wind energy, hydropower, geothermal and hydrogen exploration. The newly launched subsidiary HydroTech utilizes the burning of hydrogen to create electricity and fuel and powers an experimental city-state in Oregon. In 2011, Denver-Carrington joined the Colorado Oil Initiative; a collective organization pursuing the birth of renewable oil resources. The 2012 announcement that Denver-Carrington will cease operation of thirty percent of foreign oil operation in the next ten years, decreasing American dependence on foreign oil, has been met with much speculation and criticism as a far reaching endeavor. Denver-Carrington continues to pursue the controversial topic of drilling in the American Outer Continental Shelf.
Having been in operation since the early 1800s, Colbyco has maintained its stance as a leading power in energy production, exploration and development. Vast holdings and properties include not only oil and petroleum, but timber, steel, manufacturing, plastics, chemicals, and mineral deposits. Colbyco operation spans the globe with activity on all seven continents, off shore drilling, and technological advances in space with exploratory modules dispatched to far reaching areas of the known universe. Colbyco Oil based in New York City with global offices in Denver, London, Geneva, Buenos Aires and Auckland was once the most powerful oil and gas producer in the world. Built and forged by the Colby’s for over two hundred years, the empire has come under fire over the last two decades. SEC indictments and federal court proceedings found Colbyco guilty of price fixing when in 2000 prices were upwards of $4 per gallon at the gas pump. Consumer outrage and government investigation slapped Colbyco Oil with lawsuits and sanctions that called for an immediate halt in some oil producing markets, and resulted in a shutdown of many oil operations, thus calling for Chief Executive Alexis Colby to drop the “Oil” from the company masthead. In order to salvage lost revenue, Colbyco launched a hostile takeover of rival Colby Enterprises and the eleventh hour coup was a success, disbanding of the board of directors, firing of CEO Jason Colby, and swallowing of all subsidiaries and holdings. The move was lauded as nothing short of brilliance. This increased market share for Colbyco in natural resources, technology and electronics. Alexis Colby maintains her seat as Chairman of the Board while having just appointed her grandson Blake Colby as the new CEO.
Cannon Worldwide
The powerhouse firm Cannon Worldwide is a global investment bank and trading and securities brokerage. Main business areas, based on 2011 net revenue distributions are capital markets, wealth management and global clearing services. Heavily impacted by the financial crisis and recession of 2008, Cannon Worldwide has managed to remain in operation, largely due to the bank bailout and heavy private investor cash infusion. Led by CEO and Chairman Walter Cannon IV, the banking firm holds its headquarters in Midtown Manhattan with main offices in London, Hong Kong, and Tokyo. Established in 1931 after the fallout of the Stock Market Crash, Cannon was forged as an equity trading house servicing and working with corporations, institutions, governments and high net worth individuals. A prime player in the market, Cannon has survived takeover and buyout attempts from Fidelity, JP Morgan, State Street and Barclay’s. Cannon Worldwide gained fame and took on industry expert criticism as being the sole financial resource of the high risk Colorado Oil Initiative headed up by Denver-Carrington and Colbyco. Vice President of Development McCale Cannon, husband of Denver-Carrington CEO Kristina Cannon, is the lead on the project.
Known around the world as BerFranc, Bertrand-Francais is a large investment bank and financial services company based in La Defense just outside of Paris. Built in the 1860s by a triumvirate of wealthy French aristocrats wanting to parlay their vast fortunes into a working investment, the banking firm survived war, strike, ill-fated European markets, government involvement and Nazi prompted shutdown during World War II. The bank managed to rebound from these setbacks time and again, and moved into other markets in Africa and the United States in the early 1960s during the recovery of the European market. The bank suffered recently with the loss of resources in Morocco and Greece and Libya due to civil unrest, crashed economies, and dictator/supporter liaison. BerFranc has been criticized for financial support of dictatorship, and had all assets frozen in Iraq and Libya until quite recently. BerFranc has been a family institution and is currently run by fourth generation Chief Officer Benoit Bertrand.
Displacing the theory of Peak Oil, the late Professor Joshua Breque developed a highly regarded research project for utilizing renewable oil from oil deposits. The revolutionary research was sought after by every major oil producer in the world, and some Middle Eastern countries. Having been a research professor with the University of Colorado, and with funding under a grant issued through a program run by Denver-Carrington, the Professor chose to have his research developed close to home. Significant efforts to procure the research were made by both Denver-Carrington, Colbyco and the Colorado State Senate office, with the Senate office securing the bid. Senator Steven Daniel Carrington created a task force of fellow governmental regulators to work with him and the process of choosing the oil producing company was on. The search was vast, but Denver-Carrington and Colbyco both lobbied and successfully won the opportunity to work in a joint effort on bringing the research to fruition, with investment banking firm Cannon Worldwide providing the capital. All players have been scrutinized for the high cost and risk in the project by industry analysts.
La Mirage Resort Hotels Group
Built from a simple idea generated out of boredom and restlessness, Fallon Carrington transformed the aging La Mirada Hotel in the original La Mirage. The second incarnation of the world class resort turned the luxury hotel world upside down and ushered in a new era of elegance, glamour, and indulgent relaxation and decadence for the super rich See and Be Seen Set. The crown jewel in the La Mirage Resort Hotels Group is the flagship resort property just outside Denver. The hotel chain spans the globe with fifty-four Five Star resorts each branded with the distinctive La Mirage signature - “Every experience memorable. Every stay treasured.” Fallon used her own capital to buy the resort chain out from under the Denver-Carrington umbrella and forged the independent company she manages today, along with her daughter Avery Colby managing European operations and running the property in Denver. Fallon launched the uber hip, uber luxurious The Blake in 2010 with only five Five Star resorts in hot spots of the jet set around the world. Fallon has plans for extensive brand development to kick off in 2013.
