812 W Crooked St, Southside, New Union City, NU, USA
PUDLEY & Co. is a Canadian-American conglomerate holding company headquartered at the WorldCorp Building in New Union City, New Union. It wholly owns Pudley & Sons Cocao and Pudley & Sons Steel (P.S. Steel), and has significant minority holdings in Obsidian Crown Financial (19.8%), Stoltz Beer (44.5%), and has a controlling stake in the Monoford Fraggers baseball team of the DarkRP League.
EARLY HISTORY
Pudley & Co. was founded in 1899 by Braxton Elliot Richard Pudley, a naval veteran of the Spanish-American War. While serving in the Carribean, Pudley was tasked as a quartermaster in the US Navy, handling the finer points of a large-scale supply network. After the war, he used the skills he learned in logistics to start a Cocoa importing business, and eventually, the company grew into a large multinational. In 1931, Pudley purchased eight small disparate steel companies and merged them to form P.S. Steel.
During the Second World War, much of the American Pacific fleet was built with P.S. Steel in the large dockyards of Monoford, Washington. The Pudley family relocated from Southside to Monoford in the late 1940's, and established themselves into the power structure of the West Coast. The post-war years before the second great bust of Monoford in the late sixties were the golden age of Pudley & Co. and the Pudley family. Edward Jacob Pudley served as the head of the family after Braxton Elliot Pudley retired in 1959. E. J. spent large portions of the family's fortune entering politics, eventually being elected into the US Senate in California, and becoming the state's 31st Governor.
The company went into decline in the 1970's, hit by stagflation. Much of its business was eaten up by foreign competition, and the original P.S. Steel Plant in Paralake, Pennsylvania was closed in 1982.
RECENT HISTORY
The fortunes of P.S. Steel changed in the early 2000's during the construction boom, and they opened a brand new plant in True North. In 2006, Braxton Elliot "Bud" Pudley III took control of Pudley & Co. after the retirement of his father, Braxton Richard Dalmore Ryder Pudley II.
The company has seen recent success and is making plans to increase Cocoa and Steel production through the next few quarters.
