How to Use holding company in a Sentence

holding company

noun
  • The move would completely buy him out of the holding company, to the tune of $2 billion.
    Kevin Sullivan, Robb Report, 29 Nov. 2021
  • Cartier didn’t know how to do this kind of business, and the three branches sold out to holding companies.
    Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 9 July 2024
  • The tech giant makes up about a third of the holding company’s portfolio.
    Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 15 Aug. 2024
  • The holding company now has a record $325.2 billion in cash reserves.
    Diane Brady, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The actors, then husband and wife, purchased the château (where they were married in 2014) through their holding companies.
    Rachel Shin, Fortune, 11 July 2023
  • As part of the scam, the seller claimed the vehicle was being shipped by a third party holding company.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 2 Oct. 2020
  • The franchise holding company is one of our Top Buys for next week with an A rating in Technicals.
    Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
  • The new word in saving the world is holding companies accountable.
    Outside Online, 29 Aug. 2024
  • Microsoft is in the process of attempting to acquire the video game holding company, but the $68.7 billion megadeal has since been challenged by the FTC.
    Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Jan. 2023
  • About two-thirds of share capital of Tata Sons, the group's holding company, is held by philanthropic trusts.
    Reuters, NBC News, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Page repeated the line in the 2015 announcement about the creation of the Alphabet holding company.
    Naomi Nix, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The workaround was to create an offshore holding company or VIE.
    Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 30 July 2021
  • The Texas holding company was founded in Happy, Texas, in 1908 and today is based in Amarillo.
    Andrew Moreau, Arkansas Online, 16 Sep. 2021
  • The idea was to build a modern holding company that's focused on a healthier living.
    Dave Knox, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
  • The dating app giant filed to separate from its holding company, IAC, in late 2019.
    Dom Difurio, Dallas News, 7 Sep. 2021
  • The holding company, along with the consumer bank, will be based in Columbus, while the commercial bank will be headquartered in Detroit.
    Hannah Levitt, Bloomberg.com, 14 Dec. 2020
  • Most notably, in 2015, Google adopted Alphabet as the name of the parent holding company.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Gestion Audem holds 69% of the voting rights at holding company Cogeco, while Rogers has control over 13% of the votes.
    Divya Balji, Bloomberg.com, 8 Sep. 2020
  • On May 11, the holding company of the struggling Pacific Western Bank reported that the bank lost 9.5% of its total deposits in a week.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 8 June 2023
  • Acacia was mainly a holding company for patents, before Starboard invested in the firm and joined its board in 2019.
    Suzanne Kapner, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2022
  • Capital One — Shares of the bank holding company jumped nearly 4%.
    Alex Harring, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2024
  • The central bank ordered Ant to fold all financial units into a holding company.
    Lulu Yilun Chen, Fortune, 8 July 2023
  • Christie’s — which is controlled by Artemis, the investment holding company owned by the Pinault family — said sales totaled $2.1 billion in the first half of this year.
    Greg McKenna, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Many of the investments led by the SoftBank chairman now bypass the Vision Fund and are orchestrated by the holding company.
    Min Jeong Lee, Fortune Asia, 10 May 2024
  • The holding company had wanted a larger Paramount board to consider the transaction, but the investor meeting marked the end of the terms of four directors.
    Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2024
  • The French multinational holding company has sold its stake in the popular brand due to a drop in profits across its luxury brands.
    Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Luxury goods holding company, Richemont, made changes to the leadership of two of its luxury brands.
    Anthony Demarco, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
  • The holding company last year completed the purchase of Merkle’s remaining shares.
    Katie Deighton, WSJ, 7 July 2021
  • Jackson has made Lacey a partner in Sonoma Craft, the holding company that encompasses both the beer and cider businesses.
    Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 May 2022
  • Nothing has been confirmed or formally announced yet, but the chatter alone doubled the holding company’s stock price in morning trading.
    Alena Botros, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2024

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