A holding company is a company that has enough shares in one or more other companies to be able to control the other companies.
[business]
...a Montreal-based holding company with interests in telecommunications, gas andnatural resources.
holding company in British English
noun
a company with controlling shareholdings in one or more other companies
holding company in American English
US
a corporation organized to hold bonds or stocks of other corporations, which it usually controls
holding company in Finance
(hoʊldɪŋ kʌmpəni)
Word forms: (plural) holding companies
noun
(Finance: Corporate)
A holding company is a company with controlling shareholdings in one or more other companies.
The holding company has more than 50 percent of the total voting power and has the control on the othercompany.
The existing management team, assisted by financial investors, created and financeda holding company that then borrowed debt to acquire the target company.
A holding company is a company with controlling shareholdings in one or more other companies.
Examples of 'holding company' in a sentence
holding company
The growth of bank holding companies is one example of how competitive forces have weakened the impact of restrictive branching regulations.
Mishkin, Frederic S. Financial Markets, Institutions and Money (1995)
Other combinations used a financial enterprise such as a trust or holding company to control the voting stock of the corporations involved.
Hunt, E. K. Property and Prophets: The Evolution of Economic Institutions and Ideologies (1995)