# Holding company (also used in German, more rarely

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## Definition

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. Attention: The financial encyclopedia is protected by copyright and may only be used for private purposes without express consent! University Professor Dr. Gerhard Merk, Dipl.rer.pol., Dipl.rer.oec. Professor Dr. Eckehard Krah, Dipl.rer.pol. E-mail address: info@ekrah.com https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Ernst_Merk https://www.jung-stilling-gesellschaft.de/merk/ https://www.gerhardmerk.de/

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