Meanwhile at Shi Corporation, surprisingly so, the company was able to kick back into the game.
To recall, all their competitors in the oil industry gained an advantage by consolidating their importations and as a result, their cost of goods became collectively cheaper. After all, the simple rule says 'cheaper by the dozen'.
Heedless to say that oil players would not readily join forces on their own, and all the more would they NOT sit on a round table to discuss as a team how to take the market down collectively. Who, in the right state of mind, would disclose the sacred secret recipe of each corporation for the greater good of all?
The business world was tantamount to a sophisticated jungle where predators and prey both wear suits and corporate attires, and where they lock themselves in offices behind their desks. However, all businessmen were a similar type of animal.
