With a NASDAQ price and all, Jurassic World is starting to feel real after the launch of the film's viral site.
Usually I’d say financial analysis and stock tips are best left to other websites. Our specialty is trading popular culture information, rumors and opinions. Granted, every once in a while a white-hot company comes to our attention and we have to let our readers know that it shouldn’t be ignored.
That company is Masrani, already one of the world's most successful corporations, with a total profit of nearly $700 million in the 2013 fiscal year. As one of the NASDAQ 100 and Fortune 500 companies, Masrani—which has holdings in oil, telecom, mining, construction, engineering, real estate, technology, and health care—saw a share price index increase of 14.87% from Q1 to Q4 in 2013. Like I said, it’s white hot right now.
I'm sure hungry college students are fighting over each other to land Masrani's Genetic Biologist internship.
So why is this company relevant to our site? Of their many holdings, Masrani is the company behind the world’s greatest theme park, Jurassic World.
You remember Jurassic Park, right?
Here’s a brief history lesson to get you caught up to date:
In 1997 Simon Masrani began talks to acquire International Genetic Technologies after the passing of Dr. John Hammond in order to reshape and restore the company to a level of satisfaction once sought by the former founder. By 1998 InGen was under the Masrani umbrella and the years from 2002 to 2004 would help lead the Masrani company on their biggest adventure yet: the construction of Jurassic World on Isla Nublar.
Soon after the acquisition of InGen in 1998, Simon Masrani looked to work at a plan that seemed impossible given the circumstances of the years preceeding - the control and re-invention of a new theme park on Isla Nublar. Experts from the Masrani company were collected together, along with Dr. Henry Wu from the InGen company, to plan for the greatest theme park and attractions ever constructed in humankind's history.
Simon Masrani used subsidaries Axis Boulder Engineering and Timack Construction to work on the preparation and planning prior to construction on the island. Construction workers were protected from native wildlife by InGen security over the course of the three years from 2002 until completion in 2004. With over $1.2 billion alone spent in concrete and building materials, this project was never underestimated.
If you’ve gotten this far and still have no idea what I’m talking about, Jurassic World, the fourth installment in the Jurassic Park series, is hitting theaters on June 12, 2015. To get fans excited for the film’s release, the team behind Jurassic World launched a fully realized viral site for Masrani, the fictional company behind the re-imagined “Jurassic World.”
If you’re interested in learning about Masrani, seeing images and reading details that may influence the film, click here.
To go to the actual Jurassic World website, click here.
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