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Playing devils advocate it's very easy for a company to set up two shells or 'partner' organizations where the products are targeted to different markets.
by breakfastduck 6y ago
Playing devils advocate it's very easy for a company to set up two shells or 'partner' organizations where the products are targeted to different markets.
- Someone 6y agoEasy (you don’t even need multiple companies), but it would double your overhead and means you’ll have to keep more supplies (if you run out of EU-regulation foobars, you can’t grab a few non-EU-regulation ones) or order them in smaller quantities (⇒ quite possibly at higher prices), have larger stores of stuff to be sold, etc. That wasn’t even worth it for global electronics companies to keep producing non-RoHS-compliant electronics, and quite a few of them produce at scales that few others do.
- rndmio 6y agoIt's about production lines, the cost to manufacture the same thing to different standards is more costly (generally) than just producing one thing to the highest standard and selling it to both markets.
- breakfastduck 6y agoGet that, but means companies can operate different 'arms' for different operations. Products can be totally different, they don't have to be 'variants' of the same item.
- rndmio 6y agoIf they are different products for different markets they could already do that.