A holding company is a company that owns other companies' outstanding stock.

A company might have a single shareholder or group of shareholders with majority control of the company, either through holding the majority of the company's outstanding equity or through holding shares with superior voting rights.

(Goldman Sachs became eligible for subsidized Fed loans by turning itself into a holding company).

Ownership and finances The holding company of Manchester City F.C., Manchester City Limited, is a private limited company, with approximately 54 million shares in issue.

On September 8, the newspaper was seized by the Foundation for the Disinherited, a state owned holding company.

The article alleged that Quintais partly controlled by a company owned by the Berlusconi family s investment vehicle and partly by a holding company controlled by the Gaddafi family s investment arm.

AIG is a holding company, and most of its business is conducted through insurance subsidiaries organized as separate legal entities.

Dubai's economy is now fully diversified.

Growth in the more diversified economies

This recognition brought the site additional funding from abroad and saved it from imminent logging by a French company (HUET Holding).

Sinopec, China s second largest oil company, was reportedly holding discussions with Repsol to acquire a substantial share of its assets in Argentina.

Food production is not enough and diversified.

The sources of income must be diversified.

Public debt in the more diversified economies

Calls for a more diversified investment strategy intensified.

The Foundation Treaty was signed on 1 January 1974 and gave each government a 25 shareholding in Gulf Aviation, which became a holding company.

OMV acquired the stake held by Dogan Holding in Petrol Ofisi in late 2010, which further increased its stake in the company to 95.75 .

(d) Guidelines allowing an insolvency representative in the insolvency of a holding company to steer the actions to be taken by the (insolvent) subsidiary

The city also hosts the headquarters of Elering, a national electric power transmission system operator and member of ENTSO E, the Estonian natural gas company Eesti Gaas and energy holding company Alexela Energia, part of Alexela Group.

That may sound extreme, but some scholars, such as the 2004 Nobel Prize winner Ed Prescott, have shown that, historically, holding a large diversified portfolio of stocks long enough is generally a far better investment than ultra safe US Treasury bonds.

Almost immediately after the relocation to Houston, Enron began selling major assets such as its chemicals division Northern PetroChemicals, accepted silent partners in Enron CoGeneration, Northern Border Pipeline and Transwestern Pipeline, and became a less diversified company.

In so doing, that company, like the foreign companies holding fishing licences, were accomplices in the illegal occupation of Western Sahara by the Kingdom of Morocco.

Its foreign trade and investment patterns are diversified and dynamic.

Typical was the Russian holding company Promyslennye investory (Industrial Investors), which managed to get a major gold mine and then half of a plant producing gold alloys.

In addition, in Australia, the insolvency legislation provides for the liability of a holding (parent) company for the debts of a subsidiary company that became insolvent if it is established that the subsidiary was permitted by the parent to engage in insolvent trading.

YHE 072) from a private company, TAF Holding Company Ltd, at Yarambamba Housing Estate, Yundum, Western Division, in the Gambia at a cost of 34,000 in September 2003. Reliable Liberian sources confirmed that she was one of the wives of Charles Taylor.

Emerging market central banks diversified out of dollars and into gold.

In 2004, UNIFEM achieved a larger and more diversified resource base.

The Fed is seeking to oblige foreign banks to create a holding company to own their separately capitalized subsidiaries, effectively giving the Fed direct oversight of their business.

For example, the United Kingdom s Independent Commission on Banking (ICB) has proposed ring fencing retail activities from investment banking activities in separately capitalized divisions of a bank holding company.

Hearst is one of the largest diversified communications companies in the world.

Unemployment rates, however, remained critically high, especially in the more diversified economies.

With a development plan by the Port of Singapore Authority having fallen through, the China Overseas Ports Holding Company has taken over, raising strategic concerns in India, Japan, and the US.

Our vision is to turn Namibia into a knowledge based, diversified economy by 2030.

Finally, new regional arrangements, as well as specific projects, will require diversified funding sources.

Many have public pension funds of substantial magnitude, consisting of diversified portfolios of assets.

Likewise, the Federal Reserve s proposed capital and holding company requirements for foreign firms operating in the US while better than national treatment and, in my judgment, prudent deeply angered the European Commission.

Similarly, the descendants of I have diversified to become the new varieties w10 and z10.

A subsidiary, subsidiary company, or daughter company, is a company that is owned or controlled by another company.

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We have destroyed many townships around you , and diversified the signs , so that they may return .

We have destroyed many townships around you , and diversified the signs , so that they may return .

In Cambodia, the vocational skills have been further diversified more stress is put on appropriate technology .

Only by rendering huge and diversified international support can we help Africa to escape its predicament.