How to Use holding company in a Sentence

holding company

noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The central bank ordered Ant to fold all financial units into a holding company.
    Lulu Yilun Chen, Fortune, 8 July 2023
  • 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
  • But Del Vecchio took care to hold on to his family financial vehicle, the holding company Delfin.
    Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2022
  • 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
  • Pumpyansky’s holding company Pyrene Investments owed the bank more than $20 million.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 25 Aug. 2022
  • On Monday, the company unveiled its new structure, one that will be built around an agency holding company model.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 July 2023
  • Is the nonprofit holding company structure going to change?
    Alex Heath, The Verge, 30 Nov. 2023
  • In November, the Swedish firm was setting up a new UK holding company in what was seen as the preparatory work for a potential public offering.
    Aisha S Gani, Fortune Europe, 8 Mar. 2024
  • In a video clip posted late Saturday on the holding company’s social media accounts, Zubarev gave no reason for the decision.
    Leo Sands, Washington Post, 3 July 2023
  • Pinault founded his own company as well, Artemis S.A., a holding company.
    Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 1 June 2023
  • Paramount got a recent vote of confidence this month from Berkshire Hathaway, the holding company run by the billionaire Warren Buffett.
    New York Times, 29 May 2022
  • Tencent would get a 49.9% stake in Guillemot Brothers, controlled by Ubisoft’s founding family, and would provide the holding company a long-term unsecured loan, Ubisoft said.
    Jacky Wong, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2022
  • The name is used exclusively by the holding company, with Sony Pictures Networks continuing as the consumer facing brand.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 29 July 2022
  • And the restrictions on bank holding companies are fairly dramatic.
    CBS News, 19 Mar. 2023
  • The bill would also ensure that investors in a bank holding company should bear the losses of the insured depository institution.
    From Cnn's Krystal Hur, Nicole Goodkind and Allison Morrow, CNN, 29 Mar. 2023
  • As part of the transition, the clubs’ holding company, Pegula Sports & Entertainment, was dissolved.
    Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2023
  • That same year, Page announced Alphabet would become Google's holding company.
    Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Bettencourt Meyers also chairs her family’s holding company, Téthys, which has the L’Oréal stake.
    Tara Patel, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Increasingly, on the other side of such transactions are holding companies that buy such assets, aiming to operate them longer term.
    Yuliya Chernova, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The crypto markets and regulators will soon finally know where Binance‘s holding company is based.
    Declan Harty, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2022
  • As a general rule, holding company Berkshire Hathaway does not buy companies run by bad managers.
    Jane Thier, Fortune, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Within the big holding company, the Libermans run several smaller startups, all of which have comically bland names, like a Bond villain’s corporate front.
    Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 25 July 2022
  • Not unlike a pyramid scheme, holding companies enticed shareholders—including many working- and middle-class families—on the promise of a safe investment that would grow over time into a healthy nest egg.
    Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 14 June 2023

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