I am the Entertainment Tycoon

"In the middle of the year, the company passed through a change of management. And with it, we received new works to publish." Sayuri started reporting the yearly report.

"We published 2 new mangas and 2 new light novels. And each one of them was best-sellers when they were launched. We started with the release of the [Naruto Volume 1] in September, at that time we observed..." Sayuri started explaining the details of each release and the sales results of each manga and light novel throughout the months.

Theo and Sam listened to the report with extra attention to it, as they would need these pieces of information.

A while later, Sayuri finished her report with the tax yearly report. She explained everything calmly and professionally.

"You did an amazing job, Sayuri!" Theo complimented her with a smile on his face.

"Yeah, you did a terrific job with the reports, Sayuri." Sam nodded in agreement as she observed the reports in front of her.

Her job would be much easier with these concise and precise reports.

"Thank you, boss!" Sayuri giggled.

She was not surprised by their compliment as she was used to these kinds of situations.

"Now, I will make the same question to you that I did to Haruto." Theo said suddenly.

"What are your intakes about the company's future? In your opinion what should be the yearly planning for next year? What should we do for the company's sake in 2021?"

"Is there something that we should change from what we are currently doing? What's your intake from the company's day-to-day operation? You can talk honestly, after all, you are the person working every day in the company, and I will respect your opinions." Theo said with an encouraging smile.

Sayuri was silent for a while as she organized her thoughts.

Suddenly, she started with a calm voice, "At the moment, the Fuji Jump Co. can print 10 million copies per month. In the manga industry, we currently are a medium-sized publishing house. Large-sized publishing houses have a capacity of at least 20 million copies per month."

"I think our priority in the next year is to increase our printing capacity to 20 million copies per month. If we do that we will officially be a large-sized publishing company."

"But why do I say that it's our priority? That's because there will be anime releases from light novels and mangas that we publish!" Sayuri explained.

Theo and Sam nodded in agreement, what she said made a lot of sense.

"It's a fact that every manga or light novel will see an increase in sales after the release of animes based on them. This means that the sales of these light novels and mangas will register a sharp increase. And if we want to be able to attend to the increasing demand, we have to increase the printing capacity." Sayuri commented with certainty.

"But the problem is that our current factory does not afford another expansion. Therefore, we would have to build another printing factory, which would be much more expensive." Sayuri delivered the bad news.

As expected, Theo and Sam frowned when they heard that.

Building a factory was not that easy. They would have to get a permit from the government, build the place in the regulations, pay huge taxes, and many other complicated things.

When they opened their first printing factory, they didn't have much trouble because in the paper the publishing company already had a permit from the government from the times that Sayuri's dad was alive. So, they only had to build the factory and they could operate.

But now if they had to build another one, the situation would be much more complicated.

"After building the new factory, my suggestion is to stabilize what we have. We are growing too much too fast. So, our foundations are weak. So, we can promote actions to stabilize our presence in the market and the industry."

"For example, we can participate in Manga Cons with our works. The industry pays extra attention to these events, and if we participate we will be known among the public." Sayuri suggested.

Manga Cons are basically the same thing as Comic Cons from Theo's past life. But here in this world, mangas were much more famous and successful than comics. So, there were only Manga Cons. The anime and manga industry paid extra attention to these events. There was TV coverage to report these events as well, so not only these events had troves of people visiting, but people from everywhere in the country could also watch it.

"The Blank Ink Manga Con is one of the most famous ones, it happens in the summer, and if we participate we can appear for the first time in public." Sayuri suggested.

Theo nodded in agreement. He really liked Sayuri's suggestion. He had never even thought of participating in these events. He was glad that he asked for her opinion.

'Someone working closely knows much more.' He commented inwardly.

"That's all I guess." Sayuri said as she couldn't think of anything else to say.

Theo thought for a while before he asked, "From what you heard, what's the max printing capacity that large-sized publishing companies have?"

Sayuri was surprised by the question, but she still answered, "From what I heard it is 40 million copies per month. It may be more, but I don't know the specifics."

Theo nodded before saying something that shocked the two girls, "How about we build a factory with the capacity to print 50 million copies per month?"

Sam and Sayuri's eyes went wide and their faces showed their stupefaction at what he had just said.

"Did you just say 50 MILLION?" Sam asked in disbelief.

"Yes, 50 million." Theo replied calmly as if he was saying the number 50.

But that 50 MILLION!

"Do you have any idea the fortune that you would have to invest to open a factory with this kind of capacity?" Sayuri asked in equal disbelief.

"No, I don't. Sam, how much do you think we would have to invest to open a factory like that?" He asked her with a calm face.

He knew nothing about the complicated procedures to open a factory like that, but Sam knew them.

The girls only knew that he wasn't kidding when they saw his calm face, his eyes showed the determination to do it.

After knowing Theo for so long, they knew that look already. It was the look that he had already decided on something.

"With this kind of capacity, there are no buildings we can buy that can house it. So, our first problem was buying land capable to to build the factory. That involves multiple permits from the government. Permits like to not discard our industrial trash in green areas and other kinds of permits. Even if we manage to get these permits from the government, we would have the problem of building the factory. This huge building would have to be built according to regulations, and that would demand a lot of money to build. And IF we manage to build the factory, there's the issue of buying such a large quantity of high-end printers and other machines. That would take a lot of money as well. And that's because I didn't see anything about the payment for the huge amount of employees we would have to hire." Sam explained with a thoughtful face.

"A base number for investment would be at least 150 million dollars. But that's just a base number, I bet that the final number would double that." Sam dropped the bomb as she shook her head.