How to Use holding company in a Sentence

holding company

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  • The move would completely buy him out of the holding company, to the tune of $2 billion.
    — Kevin Sullivan, Robb Report, 29 Nov. 2021
  • For example, a retail holding company may have data spread across many different brands that need to be combined in a way that can drive scale and be accessible by each brand.
    — Nancy Marzouk, Forbes, 7 Dec. 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Meanwhile, the holding company earned £73 million the year Bohemian Rhapsody came out.
    — Marina Watts, Peoplemag, 22 June 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • The tycoon has a net worth of $8.4 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index — with the family holding company owning about 30% of Vivendi.
    — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Europe, 3 July 2024
  • Fox Sports controls the league through a holding company, and its senior tier of executives consists largely of former Fox stalwarts.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 25 Jan. 2022
  • 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

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