holding company
a company that controls other companies through stock ownership but that usually does not engage directly in their productive operations (distinguished from parent company).
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The agency holding companies have chosen divergent paths over how to leverage and incorporate data, which in the last five or so years has muscled its way to the forefront of most media decisions.
Media Buying Briefing: To own or not to own, that’s the question with agencies and data — Part I: Publicis/Epsilon | jim cooper | January 25, 2021 | DigidayOne advertiser finalized a deal last week to advertise during the Inauguration and “their deal is packed with contingencies in the event that there is a problem,” according to a media buyer for a holding company agency.
Marketing Briefing: The next weeks ‘will be tense’: Marketers brace for more social unrest | Kristina Monllos | January 12, 2021 | DigidayThere aren’t many accounts that were switched to other holding companies.
‘Marketers talk a good game’: Confessions of a senior agency exec on being paid fairly | Seb Joseph | January 6, 2021 | DigidayDistributions from the holding companies have varied, Johnson said, and Rechnitz has used some of his share to acquire new facilities, invest in operations and donate to charity.
Profit and pain: How California’s largest nursing home chain amassed millions as scrutiny mounted | Debbie Cenziper, Joel Jacobs, Alice Crites, Will Englund | December 31, 2020 | Washington PostThe Hangzhou-based firm now needs to move forward with setting up a separate financial holding company to ensure it has sufficient capital, and protect personal private data, the central bank said.
Chinese regulators order Ant Group to focus on payments, stop short of breakup | lbelanger225 | December 27, 2020 | Fortune
As the former CEO of Apollo Group, a large education holding company, Edelstein is helping Rwanda with its higher education.
The American Elite Embraces a New Africa at D.C. Summit | Eleanor Clift | August 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMissouri-based holding company for operating companies Bick Group Inc., Bick Properties Inc., and SEALCO LLC.
After Hobby Lobby, These 82 Corporations Could Drop Birth Control Coverage | Abby Haglage | June 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOr renounce your status as a bank holding company, as Goldman Sachs seems primed to do.
Meanwhile, Ford and de Sole saw their own relationship to their corporate holding company fray, leading to their exit in 2004.
The holding company has a sinister perfection in its mode of giving to a minority of capital the control over a majority.
Essentials of Economic Theory | John Bates ClarkCompany B got a position on the other bank where they could shoot right into the party which was holding company A in check.
History of Morgan's Cavalry | Basil W. DukeMr. Marston, you know, is secretary of the Consolidated holding company.
Odd Numbers | Sewell FordThe holding company was a machine whereby capital could control property several times its bulk.
The New Nation | Frederic L. PaxsonThere was here no single holding company as in the case of the Standard Oil Trust.
State of the Union Addresses of William H. Taft | William H. Taft
British Dictionary definitions for holding company
a company with controlling shareholdings in one or more other companies
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Cultural definitions for holding company
A company that controls other companies.
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