How to Use holding company in a Sentence

holding company

noun
  • That meant they were sold back to the holding company for £1.
    SI.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • The league is half-owned by the teams and half-owned by the league itself under a holding company.
    Eric Jackson, Sportico.com, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Now, in a twist, the holding company will embrace the name of a print magazine in its next move.
    Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 28 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Investors will rebel and hold companies accountable for the damage to their brand.
    Will Carter For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 31 July 2019
  • The move would completely buy him out of the holding company, to the tune of $2 billion.
    Kevin Sullivan, Robb Report, 29 Nov. 2021
  • The new word in saving the world is holding companies accountable.
    Outside Online, 29 Aug. 2024
  • State and federal laws in recent decades have held companies more accountable than in the past.
    Washington Post, 19 July 2019
  • Ritankar Das wants the holding company to make its comeback.
    Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The most important of these is the holding company structure.
    Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • The firm recently merged with its holding company and is now called Flagstar Bank.
    Associate News Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2025
  • But shares in the bank’s holding company were now worthless, erasing years of investment gains.
    David Yaffe-Bellany, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • Ascent will act as a holding company for different youth sports assets.
    Luisa Beltran, Sportico.com, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Many big holding companies are on the verge of bankruptcy, while banks would suffer from a series of defaults.
    Amanda Sloat, Foreign Affairs, 30 July 2018
  • On the climbing hold company’s website, George found that the hold was available for $63.
    Joe Purtell, Outside Online, 30 July 2019
  • But a holding company established six months before a sale is not the same as one established three years before.
    Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • 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
  • The deal is for a mid-single-digit stake in the team through an investment in Wolff’s holding company, which owns the shares.
    Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 11 Nov. 2025
  • The holding company was not subject to the FA’s rules and could be bought and sold along with the football club inside it.
    Michael Walker, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2025
  • That said, the hard-nosed tactics employed at Twitter and X might be a turnoff for some of the holding company’s clients.
    Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 9 July 2025
  • But Das believes there’s lots of potential in the holding company model.
    Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • But Snapple was one piece of Peltz' old holding company, Triarc Cos.
    Alexander Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Our holding company itself is entirely funded by our exits.
    Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The workaround was to create an offshore holding company or VIE.
    Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 30 July 2021
  • 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 actors, then husband and wife, purchased the château (where they were married in 2014) through their holding companies.
    Rachel Shin, Fortune, 11 July 2023
  • This roadblock is holding companies back from true productivity gains, added Miller.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2025

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