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Hi. I am thinking expanding the e-commerce as in the later phase of the game, I usually controlling more and more subsidiary companies with their own expertise goods. The capability to have the parent company's e-commerce site to sell their goods would be a good demonstration of synergy of controlling other companies by increasing the sales and eventually the stock price.

However right now there is not much way to do so. Merging the subsidiary will requires rebuilding the brand and more management complexity. I also tried to build a warehouse to store the goods and sell from there, but the price agreements is tricky and make that not profitable at all.

On the other hand, the mechanism of the subsidiary ownership works very well. When I own 75%+ of company A and company A owns 75%+ of company B. Then I can directly change the settings of company B's factories. By leveraging this, I think the dev team can also add the e-commerce check box on those factories.

I like this idea, definitely a good addition so as to avoid merging and / or investing heavily towards creating a new ecommerce website per subsidiary.

Totally agree - makes no sense to duplicate multiple systems

Hi David,

Can you move this thread to the suggestions board? Really want to see how people think about it and have this implemented.

lagrelax wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2020 4:27 pm Hi David,

Can you move this thread to the suggestions board? Really want to see how people think about it and have this implemented.

Moved.

This would be a great addition me thinks.
I've read somewhere here about a new window which you could set your cut from AI's price (ie 5%).
On that screen, unlike on the existing window for your own products, it would only show the total income of the set percentage for all of the specific product sold by that subsidiary. For example, a subsidiary decided to set 2 farms producing eggs to your e-com site, it would just show 5% of the income of all of the eggs sold. As the owner of the e-com , you are more concerned of your earnings rather than their earnings in terms of e-com. Remember market shares do not necesarrily considered in e-com as of yet.
For identification purpose, maybe show on the left the big dot color of the subsidiary to easily identify which of them uses your site for a particular product.
This window could potentially be used as well if there comes a decision that AI companies besides subsidiaries will use your platform. To differentiate with your subsidiaries, the existing one use red font for distinction, which could also help differentiate it.