BUSINESS: Anaxes shipyards ‘under new management’.
Anaxes Shipyards, a major supplier of commercial and battle-ready ships, has been purchased by businessman and investor Alexi Stravos (@Raydo). With former CEO, Markus Dalin, discovered to have been embezzling money from company accounts, the board took ‘swift action’ to remove the CEO, causing a stock price crash.
Shares dropped, enabling a takeover by Mr Stravos, who took a majority stake in the company, and subsequently the major shipyard on Anaxes.
Producers of several well-known lines of warship and commercial liners, the Anaxes shipyards are a key component of the economy of Anaxes itself. Anaxes, which is famed for its production of warships and training of naval officers, will now find itself swayed by the influence of the Stravos family.
Mr. Stravos, who sources say comes from a wealthy Core World family, is understood to have some connections with the banking clan, with some suggestions that financiers supported in the purchase (although this is unconfirmed).
Sources from within the board meeting in which Mr. Stravos was appointed as the new CEO reported to the Herald that he was accompanied by an aide (@Sreeya), who worked with him to secure the control of the Company.
Azure Manufacturing, which owns the shipyards, and is now under the majority control of Mr. Stravos, has yet to make a public comment on the purchase, however it has confirmed the new appointments of the board, and released a series of photos showing Mr, Stravos inspecting the shipyards themselves.