INTOPIA
GAZETTE
World: 2003 Editor: Hans B. Thorelli Q1
Australian Editor: Douglas Dow

ORGAN OF THE COMPUTER INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION (CIA)

ONCE ONLY
INDUSTRIAL PARK OFFER!

In Q1 only, ready-made chip plants are available in industrial parks. This offer only applies in the EU and US. The plants will be able to produce in Q1. However, accelerated training of the local personnel requires a temporary expense of $500K in the US and €360K in EU. There is room for only one plant per Co. and area.

Companies interested in this one-time opportunity should complete the orange W2 form and submit it to the Facilitator. Participating firms also need send a service payment (the orange W1 form) to Company 99 to cover the extra training costs mentioned above.

Production of any good in a given quarter invariably goes into the inventory of the producer in that same Q. Thus, Industrial Park chip companies will not be able to ship their chips to PC producers until Q2; and, to be available for PC production in Q2, the chips must be transferred by air.

TRANSFER STARTING CAPITAL
TO AREA(S)

Plants you build in your operating Area(s), variable manufacturing cost (cash part), any methods improvement, advertising, the cash part of any goods bought from Nippon (see below), plus any other expenses incurred in the Area all call for transfer of adequate starting capital from Home Office (HO) to the area. Use your budgeting spreadsheet to ensure you transfer enough capital into each area. Advice: do not count on any sales revenue in Q1 - let it be the desirable “cushion”.

To transfer the requisite start-up funds fill out Form A3 (you need one A3 form for each area where you are active!). The simplest approach is to transfer Swiss Francs and use the automatic conversion function. In the first column, indicate:

 F (transfer from HO to area)