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 actors, then husband and wife, purchased the château (where they were married in 2014) through their holding companies.
    Rachel Shin, Fortune, 11 July 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Most notably, in 2015, Google adopted Alphabet as the name of the parent holding company.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 20 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • The central bank ordered Ant to fold all financial units into a holding company.
    Lulu Yilun Chen, Fortune, 8 July 2023
  • 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 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
  • With his right-hand man Charlie Munger, the investing legend has led one of the world’s most profitable holding companies, Berkshire Hathaway, for almost 60 years, and become one of the world’s richest men in the process.
    Jane Thier, Fortune, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Cerberus’ holding company lost investors and faced lawsuits after the Sandy Hook shooting.
    James Bandler, ProPublica, 21 Nov. 2023
  • The hotel was struggling, so much so that Mr. Trump's holding company had to reallocate at least $24 million to help the struggling hotel, the documents show.
    Zak Hudak, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2021
  • But Del Vecchio took care to hold on to his family financial vehicle, the holding company Delfin.
    Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2022
  • Meanwhile, the holding company earned £73 million the year Bohemian Rhapsody came out.
    Marina Watts, Peoplemag, 22 June 2024
  • So, indeed, is the holding company which owns RT, formerly known as Russia Today.
    Sam Kiley, CNN, 30 Oct. 2021
  • The family that owns Condé Nast, the Newhouse family (through their holding company Advance), has found itself in the middle of the changing media landscape.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Publicis Media will be the first media holding company to test the measurement.
    Megan Graham, WSJ, 13 Jan. 2022
  • As in past meetings, Nike’s board of directors — the majority of whom are selected by a holding company for co-founder Phil Knight’s stock — opposes this year’s measures.
    Rob Davis, ProPublica, 6 Sep. 2024
  • They’re used to sharing their thoughts online and holding companies responsible.
    Jeff Fromm, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024

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