Someone else pointed out, a couple days ago, that Alon and Lano are the same letters and they were trying to rearrange them to form another word. Friends, that word is "Loan".
Alon and Lano, I believe, are shells, attempting to appear to be doing something, when in reality they will likely only ever end up owning other companies; the companies that actually do the growing, distribution, and seles.
And why?
To keep the operations separate from the finances.
Now, one does have to ask why Primco wouldn't just handle the financial end and let Suzie Q's handle the heavy lifting here. After all, that's already how things are set up, right?
Well, sort-of. There are benefits to compartmentalizing, though. Right now, Primco is trying to wear too many hats, real estate, music, TV, movies, and pot. We need a separate company for each of these endeavors; Primco needs to be a shell, in that respect. And each of those companies needs to, itself, be a shell, running smaller, local-market franchises, or even larger national franchises.
Think about it; especially for real estate, pot, and the production side of the media set! A local realtor is going to have better connections in a given area; they'll know where the best properties are and who to talk to if they want those properties, while a national brand will get more recognition; so have both, and let the national work with the locals, it's a win-win. Music production? A small local studio just "feels" better, they'll know the local scene better than anyone else, and that's a huge benefit; but you want national, or even worldwide, distribution, so we need both of those, as well. There's less benefit for TV and movie production, but the benefits still exist, and for the same reasons (and it makes sense to have an in-house real estate operation in order to find locations, not only for new business operations, but also set locations for filming).
Where the real benefit is, is pot. Make Suzie Q's a big national brand, it'll be recognized everywhere just by its name, so that's perfect. But we also need smaller, local, franchises. Some people just want to support their local businesses, and I don't blame them one bit; let people who know what will draw customers in in their locality (other than pot, which they can get at any other dispensary) set up their own business, their own location, offering their customers their own set of benefits, using the Suzie Q's supply chain. It works for McDonalds and BK, where you must have a certain core menu or offering, there are a handful of things you simply can *not* do or offer, but you can expand that core menu and offer your own unique services and atmosphere (admittedly, not many fast-food franchisees actually do this, but I've visited a few who do, to a much lesser degree than I'm envisioning here, while traveling, and I have to say, were those locations local to me, I would definitely go back to them on a regular basis).
There's logic here, it's just not apparent on the surface.
