- Spawning subsidiaries with the most qualified CEO, focused on a single product class
- Setting high dividends (100%) and injecting cash (either issuing shares to parent or direct cash injection if 100% ownership) as needed, escpecially during early phases of existence
- Snowball cash generated from dividends to spawn more subsidiries and/or help existing ones achieving dominance over their product class
- There is now way to tell a subsidiary to focus on farm products (livestock, plant) or semi-products, although those categories of product exist. What is a 'class' then?
Thats a problem, as one industry is 'farming', meaning only your parent, humanly-managed company would be able to reach that dominance.
You could attempt to merge Beverage, Food & Snacks subsidiaries into a single one and use vertical integration, but AI seems but at this. Also, note the bad side-effect of having the subsidiary CEO having no expertise in 2 of the 3 product classes it manages, putting them at risk towards opponents. - Related, but different, there is no way to trigger those special Real Estate or Media-focused AIs for subsidiaries you manage, even when you unselect everything but the proper checkbox, thus making dedicated subsidiaries failing miserably
- When a subsidiary has the exclusivity of retailing products from another one, those 2 subisidiaries do not cooperate and act as if they were opponents (even though a Group logic exists when selling stuff from warehouses).
That means the producing subsidiary will max-out its prices, rendering the retailing one having no leverage to gain market share and end-up being squeezed up by opponents. Bad for both subsidiaries!
How are you supposed to achieve retailing dominance with subsidiairies without a cross-class retailing one? - To achieve manufacturing/raw resources dominance, ideally you would also need a cross-class subsidiary instead of splitting forces amongst individual, specialized ones. However that means having expertise in a single product class thus showing flanks to opponents on all the others...
How is one supposed to do that?