Holding company (also used in German, more rarely

control company): A company with the purpose of acquiring a permanent interest in legally independent companies in order to – influence their business policy or – improve its own earnings (a holding company owns minority or majority investments in listed or unlisted companies either for purely financial reasons or for control purposes. It is a structure which enables the majority shareholder to maintain control of a company, because minority shareholders are dispersed). – See alliances, cross-border, holding company, Comlpex Group, financial holding, Europa-AG, property company, SifiOligopol, holding company.

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