holding company
noun
: a company whose primary business is holding a controlling interest in the securities of other companies compare investment company
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Jarett Levan, president and CEO of BBX Capital, the Fort Lauderdale holding company that owns Hoffman’s Chocolates, is excited about the makeover his team has kept secret for months. 
Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2022 Before helping found Acrisure, Williams served as vice president for Michigan National Corporation, $19 billion bank holding company. Chandler Engelbrecht, Detroit Free Press, 11 July 2022 PacifiCorp, which is owned by Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway Energy holding company, operates an electrical grid across Oregon, Washington and Northern California. Gregory Yeestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2022 PacifiCorp, which is owned by Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway Energy holding company, operates an electrical grid across Oregon, Washington and Northern California. Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 27 Aug. 2022 Pumpyansky’s holding company Pyrene Investments owed the bank more than $20 million. Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 25 Aug. 2022 Another example is holding company town halls that don’t accommodate workers in manufacturing plants or healthcare settings where there’s little time to view a company meeting online. David Grossman, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022 However, Berkshire Hathaway purchased Class B shares, which don’t have the same voting rights as the Class A shares that are largely owned by Shari Redstone’s National Amusements Inc. holding company. J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 16 May 2022 The efforts to control the media culminated in a hugely surprising move in 2018, when over 450 Fidesz-friendly private media outlets merged into one giant media holding company in a single day. Zsuzsanna Szelényi, The New Republic, 5 Apr. 2022 See More
Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2022 Before helping found Acrisure, Williams served as vice president for Michigan National Corporation, $19 billion bank holding company. Chandler Engelbrecht, Detroit Free Press, 11 July 2022 PacifiCorp, which is owned by Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway Energy holding company, operates an electrical grid across Oregon, Washington and Northern California. Gregory Yeestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2022 PacifiCorp, which is owned by Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway Energy holding company, operates an electrical grid across Oregon, Washington and Northern California. Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 27 Aug. 2022 Pumpyansky’s holding company Pyrene Investments owed the bank more than $20 million. Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 25 Aug. 2022 Another example is holding company town halls that don’t accommodate workers in manufacturing plants or healthcare settings where there’s little time to view a company meeting online. David Grossman, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022 However, Berkshire Hathaway purchased Class B shares, which don’t have the same voting rights as the Class A shares that are largely owned by Shari Redstone’s National Amusements Inc. holding company. J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 16 May 2022 The efforts to control the media culminated in a hugely surprising move in 2018, when over 450 Fidesz-friendly private media outlets merged into one giant media holding company in a single day. Zsuzsanna Szelényi, The New Republic, 5 Apr. 2022 See More Word History
First Known Use
1906, in the meaning defined above
Legal Definition
holding company
see company