Export Company
An Export Company is the outlet for everything your home market cannot absorb. When local demand runs out, ship the surplus — finished products, raw materials and semi-products alike — overseas, and keep your firms producing instead of idling.
It is also a route to growth in Survival Mode, where the local economy is small by design.
Two export companies per corporation, for balance. Merge with another corporation that also has them and all the export firms are kept — so a merged group can end up running more than two.
Setting up export deals
Going global means signing deals, and there are two ways to get one.
Method 1: find clients, then spend an Export Deal Point
Set a budget for Export Client Search and the company goes looking for clients with demand for particular products.
In this example it has found five. Click [Use Export Deal Point], pick a client, and set up the deal.
Where Deal Points come from: one every year, plus one more for every 5 new export clients your company finds. The more clients you reach, the more deals you can sign.
Method 2: spend Knowledge Points
Knowledge Points are earned by achieving goals, and 3 of them buy a deal for the product you want — bypassing the client search entirely. They are limited, so spend them deliberately.
Disable the Knowledge Points system in the new game settings and the Use Knowledge Points button disappears.
Exporting your products
A deal on its own ships nothing. Connect it to a production facility — a factory, a farm, a natural resource firm — and the export company starts buying from that supplier and selling to the overseas client.
Click the highlighted icon and select the firm in your corporation to link it to.
| Figure | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Expiration date | When the deal ends. It is deleted automatically. |
| Daily export demand | The quantity the client will buy each day, based on the product’s overall rating. |
| Monthly export sales | Your revenue from this client over the past 30 days. |
Where the revenue lands
Goods ship straight from your factories to the client, so the export sales revenue appears in the factories — not in the export company, which carries operating expenses and no income of its own. Read at group level, the corporation is more profitable; read firm by firm, the export company looks like a cost center. Both are correct.