0 a company whose main purpose is to control another company or companies through owning shares in it or them
1 a company that owns large parts of other companies. Some holding companies have business activities themselves and others do not:
Nevertheless, management in a holding company is less likely to be closely integrated as in a pure consolidation.
Technically, however, only the firm that exists solely to control other firms is a true holding company.
The final type of combination under examination here, the holding company, is the most distinct sort of combination.
This law facilitated the accounting and fiscal procedures for operations transferring funds among companies under the control of the holding company.
For the new form of public administration illustrated in this article in relation to education and training reconstructs the state along the lines of a holding company.
They do not like being dictated to by a body like the holding company.
I take it that, as the holding company, it will be liable, for example, for any debts.
That firm's holding company will now import less-well-regulated meat from the continent.
