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
• Focus, for example, is a holding company, so it is not involved in the day-to-day running of your business.
  — Paul Bond, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2019
• Switching the lease to the holding company means the city council won’t need to authorize a new one for the same space after an ownership sale or transfer.
  — Genevieve Bookwalter, chicagotribune.com, 10 Dec. 2019
• The workaround was to create an offshore holding company or VIE.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 30 July 2021
• The report said the size of each of the two automakers’ stakes in the new holding company and other financial details of the merger are yet to be decided.
  — Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024
• 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
• Speth will become the non-executive vice chairman and remain on the board of Tata Sons, the holding company for Tata Motors.
  — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 30 Jan. 2020
• 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
• But that’s holding companies to their promises and the promises are really pretty clear: you either did or didn’t.
  — Andrew Marino, The Verge, 13 Aug. 2019
• Capital One — Shares of the bank holding company jumped nearly 4%.
  — Alex Harring, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2024
• Guess the business This company was founded as a holding company in 1908 by William Durant.
  — Benzinga, Detroit Free Press, 1 Mar. 2020
• The central bank ordered Ant to fold all financial units into a holding company.
  — Lulu Yilun Chen, Fortune, 8 July 2023
• Last year, the carmakers signed a memorandum of understanding allowing room for integration discussions to play out through a joint holding company.
  — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2025
• Named for his father, Gerardo Ortiz, the holding company now comprises various business units ranging from liquor to plastics to motorcycles.
  — Katherine Love, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 16 Mar 2025