When Pierre Nixingen established the Hercules beverage company separately from the Hercules potion workshop, he was actually pulling a little trick. The Tower of Stars held a sixty-percent stake in the first company, the workshop, with Mr. Pierre acting merely as one of the partners and the general manager. However, the subsequently founded Hercules company was, in terms of equity, unrelated to the Alchemy Department.
It was just that the Hercules company had a long-term agreement to purchase large quantities of concentrated Energy Potion extract from the Hercules workshop for use as a raw material. This caused the potion workshop's cash flow to grow in sync with the beverage's popularity.
