My understanding is google first looks at the location of the url to
give ratings. An IP in the UK will get a higher rating for co.uk

We are moving all our sites to a uk server, .com .uk .de ect and set
up a primary entry page that highlights the UK Mother Company but
gives links to the satellight products globally.

--------A Master------(.com)
--Sub1(.com)-- --Sub2(.uk) -- Sub3(.uk)-- --Sub4(.com)

Currently Sub1(.com) has all the ratings, "A Master" is coming into
play and Sub1 will move to a UK server and keep the same .com name. So
there will be no redirects from Sub1 to "A Master"

THE QUESTION IS.... The marketing people want to make Sub1(.com) and
Sub2(.uk) content occupy the same domain with the same content except
changing color to colour. Thats the way it is now and it sucks. How
can I tell them you cant have 2 sites with the same content and make
them understand!.  Sorry little rant there Im frustrated. Right now
they have Sub1(.com) & Sub2(.uk) as both .com names swinging from the
same url.

Marketing people think they can build 3 sites on the same domain and
give them different folders /uk/us/au and change color to colour and
snap to blimy and everything is different while the content is exactly
the same.

Recommendations welcome