Cabbage Corp

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- Cabbage Corp, Republic City's trusted name in technology for over fifty years.

Cabbage Corp is the name of a company that produces automobiles. Its only known model is the Cabbage Car, a cheaper, more compact alternative to the Satomobile produced by Hiroshi Sato's Future Industries. Cabbage Corp's current owner is Lau Gan-Lan.

History
Cabbage Corp was founded around 120 ASC.

Following the Equalists' attack on the Pro-bending Arena, the Metalbending Police Force recieved a tip that Cabbage Corp was manufacturing Equalist weaponry. Soon after recieving the information, the police force invaded one of Cabbage Corp's warehouses and discovered Equalist propaganda and electrified gloves. Lin Beifong then arrested the company's owner outside of the company's headquarters and ordered the shutdown of Cabbage Corp. in front of a crowd of reporters and journalists. However, it was later discovered that this was a framing job by Hiroshi Sato to distract from the fact that he had been manufacturing the Equalists' weaponry.

Headquarters
Cabbage Corp's headquarters is a large skyscraper located somewhere within Republic City. At the top of the building is a large golden roof that is in the shape of a traditional cabbage cart's roof.

Outside of the building there is a large statue of the cabbage merchant and his cabbage cart, standing while raising a cabbage on his hand.

Trivia

 * Cabbage Corp is a reference to the cabbage merchant from Avatar: The Last Airbender. The company's owner even yelled "Not my Cabbage Corp!" as he was arrested, which is very similar to the phrase that the cabbage merchant always yelled after his cabbages were destroyed.
 * Cabbage Corp is owned by Lau Gan-Lan. His name is a pun on the Chinese words 老 (lǎo), meaning "old man" or "Mr." and 甘藍 (gānlán), meaning "wild cabbage": his name could therefore be translated as "Old Man Cabbage" or "Mr. Cabbage".
 * Cabbage Corp provided sponsorship for a music program on the radio.
 * Cabbage Corp and Future Industries's competition has strong similarity to the rivalry between Ford Motor Company and Oldsmobile. Ransom E. Olds founded Oldsmobile in 1897 and created the worlds first mass produced automobile, the Curved Dash Oldsmobile, about six years before Ford was founded in 1903. While the Oldsmobile was incredibly popular, the high cost and low production rate prompted many consumers to purchase the Ford Model T which was smaller, manufactured at high rates, and significantly cheaper.