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Garind GmbH is a German multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Berlin. It specialises in cloud computing and web hosting, with an additional focus in other internet services. It was founded in 1991 as Garner Industries, LLC in the United States by Alexandra Garner. In 2011, the company underwent a restructure, rebranding to Garind and moving to Germany, while also changing industry to the area of business they are in today.

Company structure
Garind is a private limited company. The full list of owners is undisclosed, but A|Annabelle Garner currently has the most shares by any individual person, with her mother and former CEO A|Adrienne Garner, and her wife Amelie Garner also each owning shares. Company founder Alexandra Garner owned shares before her death. The company is governed by a board of directors, who are elected by the shareholders. Garind takes investment primarily via corporate bonds as opposed to selling stock. All three CEOs of Garind form a direct lineage, with Adrienne being the daughter of Alexandra and Annabelle being the daughter of Adrienne. Company by-laws dictate that the daughter of the current CEO should become the next CEO when she reaches 25 years of age, upon approval by the board of directors. This practise has been criticised as nepotistic. It is expected that Annabelle's daughter will become the next CEO in 2068.

History
Very little is known about the origins of Garind. Michigan public business records show that the company was registered as Garner Industries, LLC by Alexandra Garner in Grand Rapids on May 24, 1991. Garner Industries originally existed as a manufacturing company. In 2009, Adrienne Garner, Alexandra's daughter, took over as head of the company. Two years after taking over, in what was seen as an unexpected move to Garner Industries' employees, Garner announced a complete restructuring of the company. As part of the restructure, the company would move operations to Germany, rebrand to Garind, and transition to becoming a technology company, focusing on cloud computing.

Adrienne Garner focused primarily on growing the user base of the company, by constantly improving their product, eventually positioning themselves as the most powerful cloud computing company in Germany with the most powerful servers to boot. In 2019, Garind announced its commitment to take the company global, extending operations to all six inhabited continents. However, this plan was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and Garind eventually only added a single server in the United States, with a server in Singapore being added a few years later. These additions significantly grew Garind's users and eventually got the company into the Fortune Global 500. In 2025, it was announced that a company by-law amendment would formalise Garind's policy for selecting a chief executive officer, and Annabelle Garner was announced as the CEO-in-waiting. Around this time, Garind once again explored the possibility of expanding globally, but this plan was later abandoned, and Garind instead focused on upgrading their three current servers, branding them as "superservers". In 2030, Garind became a top five cloud computing company by market share, overtaking Oracle.

In early 2039, Annabelle Garner, Adrienne's daughter took over as chief executive officer. Due to Garind's larger size compared to when Adrienne took over, this decision drew much backlash. One partner of Garind said anonymously that "Garind was in a position to become the biggest company in Germany, but they've lost that chance by choosing nepotism." Neither Adrienne nor Annabelle responded directly to any criticism, but the board of directors stated that "despite a lack of traditional qualifications such as a college education, Mrs. Annabelle Garner is clearly qualified for the position of CEO." In late 2042, Garind began an acquisition spree, taking over 12 companies in the span of three months. In October 2043, Annabelle Garner announced a new vision for Garind, with a new slogan: "Building the Foundation of the Future". Garner said that Garind would focus their efforts on evolving its product instead of simply keeping it stable. Keeping with this vision, Garner announced in early 2044 that Garind would build dedicated servers in over 100 countries, which would later be upgraded to the power of their superservers. She also announced an upgrade to their existing superservers. This process is currently underway and is expected to be completed by 2049 at the latest.