Giving your tech level to a subsidiary

[Vlyn]

Hey, new player here.

I just created my first subsidiary and gave them my manufacturing, warehouses and retail firms. Then I realized they started out with a tech level of 30 and lost the entire market. Is it somehow possible to transfer your tech level to a newly created subsidiary? I couldn't find any option for it and even giving them my R&D building didn't help.

[Stylesjl]

Hey, new player here.

I just created my first subsidiary and gave them my manufacturing, warehouses and retail firms. Then I realized they started out with a tech level of 30 and lost the entire market. Is it somehow possible to transfer your tech level to a newly created subsidiary? I couldn't find any option for it and even giving them my R&D building didn't help.

It is possible, but the process is a tedious one if there are a lot of techs.

Basically build a headquarters for the subsidiary:

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Then buy the tech from the parent company:

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Note: Your subsidiary has to pay full market price for the tech.

[anjali]

doesnt have to pay full market price, you can drop the price greatly for each tech, if you let the sub also research you can buy then tech with your main from your sub, therefore if you make a good plan, you can exchange techs without any money issues on either side. those tech trades are tax neutral means you wont be charged corporation tax for selling your techs.

[Vlyn]

Thanks, that worked. Was a bit expensive though to buy a single tech (70 mil), but I could just inject capital for it.

Is there any trick to setting up subsidiaries? Only do this for retail companies maybe? Another problem is that the brand recognition is getting lost, even if it was a unique brand and not a range or corporate one. So now the quality could be retained, but without brand it still tanked the product (and all the stores and warehouses were full with the old one, so I had to manually clear stocks before the new brand could be built).

Maybe I don't really get the idea behind using subsidiaries, is this more for buying up existing companies than creating your own?

[anjali]

Thanks, that worked. Was a bit expensive though to buy a single tech (70 mil), but I could just inject capital for it.

as written above, you can drop the purchase price within your sub greatly
i usually set up subs to do the initial invention and for large product ranges i keep a sub if i have to fight for techs against AI, so i buy the improved tech/ new tech for cheap of the sub and sell other techs to the sub at maxed price, that way its a +/-0 gambling of techs between the Holding and sub

Is there any trick to setting up subsidiaries? Only do this for retail companies maybe?

sure you can set up a simple retail sub to sell all your produced goods, myself at least does all prod and sales within the Holding company, got a certain order in shops and dont like to get it screwed up by the Sub CEO. therefore i dont know if a retailer Sub does interfere with Goal achievements.

Another problem is that the brand recognition is getting lost, even if it was a unique brand and not a range or corporate one. So now the quality could be retained, but without brand it still tanked the product (and all the stores and warehouses were full with the old one, so I had to manually clear stocks before the new brand could be built).

if your Holding and your sub have both unique brand rating, and you build the brand up from scratch in your sub, later merge the sub in to your Holding ... brand rating will be taken over by Holding company, else yes ... all brands are only of each company, another reason i only produce and sell with the Holding, only when i acquire new companies on the share market, i keep them producing and slowly incorporate it within the holding after brand rating gone up (i.e. use a warehouse to park purchase units there and advertise until brand rating of your holding is up, then take the production facility into your Holding, product by product) as i run range brand at all times
theres a downside of transferring firms with inventory units ... the inventory unit stays on the original companies brand (i.e. on mines its horrible when you mess around with transferring them, best there is to take it by merger, and or only setup mines on Holding or Sub and never change it)

Maybe I don't really get the idea behind using subsidiaries, is this more for buying up existing companies than creating your own?

always depends on what you want to do. also on acquiring of other companies via stock market an empty hull can do wonders, lets say you got range brand, but there 2 companies with unique brand, you have majority in and share price is kinda low compared to actual value. you dont want to wait and slowly move stuff over to your main as share price might raise up, so you create an empty hull with unique brand and merge those 2 companies in and pay out/issue shares at the low stock price for the remaining outstanding shares now you have time to rebuild and incorporate that stuff into your main and you only have 1 CEO to pay and not 2
there are many reasons to use subs, the most important maybe is the one for the research speed up with ceo's / cto's in the subs that got the right knowledge as you cant have all product expertise in your holding.