Holding company, the Glossary
A holding company is a company whose primary business is holding a controlling interest in the securities of other companies.[1]
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62 relations: Asset, Atlanta, Bank of America, Berkshire Hathaway, Board of directors, Broadcast law, Broadcast license, Broadcasting, Chaebol, Citigroup, Companies Act 2006, Company, Concentration of media ownership, Conglomerate (company), Conglomerate discount, Corporate group, Corporate law, Corporations Act 2001, Cumulus Media, Dividend, Dividend tax, Dividends received deduction, Energy Policy Act of 2005, Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council, Financial Post, General assembly, Goldman Sachs, IHeartMedia, Intellectual property, Internal Revenue Code, Investment company, Jacor, JPMorgan Chase, Jurisdiction, Keiretsu, Lawsuit, Legal person, List of holding companies, Local marketing agreement, Maximum and minimum, Media conglomerate, Media market, Multinational corporation, National Museum of American History, Outline of management, Patent holding company, Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, Risk, Security (finance), Shareholder, ... Expand index (12 more) »
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Asset
In financial accounting, an asset is any resource owned or controlled by a business or an economic entity.
Atlanta
Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia.
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Bank of America
The Bank of America Corporation (often abbreviated BofA or BoA) is an American multinational investment bank and financial services holding company headquartered at the Bank of America Corporate Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, with investment banking and auxiliary headquarters in Manhattan.
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Berkshire Hathaway
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is an American multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Board of directors
A board of directors is an executive committee that supervises the activities of a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government agency. Holding company and board of directors are business terms.
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Broadcast law
Broadcast law and Electricity law is the field of law that pertains to broadcasting.
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Broadcast license
A broadcast license is a type of spectrum license granting the licensee permission to use a portion of the radio frequency spectrum in a given geographical area for broadcasting purposes.
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Broadcasting
Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves), in a one-to-many model.
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Chaebol
A chaebol is a large industrial South Korean conglomerate run and controlled by an individual or family.
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Citigroup
Citigroup Inc. or Citi (stylized as citi) is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company in New York City.
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Companies Act 2006
The Companies Act 2006 (c. 46) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which forms the primary source of UK company law.
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Company
A company, abbreviated as co., is a legal entity representing an association of legal people, whether natural, juridical or a mixture of both, with a specific objective. Holding company and company are legal entities.
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Concentration of media ownership, also known as media consolidation or media convergence, is a process wherein fewer individuals or organizations control shares of the mass media.
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Conglomerate (company)
A conglomerate is a type of multi-industry company that consists of several different and unrelated business entities that operate in various industries under one corporate group. Holding company and conglomerate (company) are types of business entity.
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Conglomerate discount
Conglomerate discount is an economic concept describing a situation when the market values a diversified group of businesses and assets at less than the sum of its parts.
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Corporate group
A corporate group, company group or business group, also formally known as a group of companies, is a collection of parent and subsidiary corporations that function as a single economic entity through a common source of control. Holding company and corporate group are business terms.
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Corporate law
Corporate law (also known as company law or enterprise law) is the body of law governing the rights, relations, and conduct of persons, companies, organizations and businesses. Holding company and Corporate law are legal entities.
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Corporations Act 2001
The Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) is an Act of the Parliament of Australia, which sets out the laws dealing with business entities in Australia.
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Cumulus Media, Inc., is a broadcasting company of the United States and is the second largest owner and operator of AM and FM radio stations in the United States ahead of Audacy and behind iHeartMedia.
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Dividend
A dividend is a distribution of profits by a corporation to its shareholders.
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Dividend tax
A dividend tax is a tax imposed by a jurisdiction on dividends paid by a corporation to its shareholders (stockholders).
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Dividends received deduction
The dividends-received deduction (or "DRD"), under U.S. federal income tax law, is a tax deduction received by a corporation on the dividends it receives from other corporations in which it has an ownership stake.
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Energy Policy Act of 2005
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 is a federal law signed by President George W. Bush on August 8, 2005, at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council
The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) is a formal U.S. government interagency body composed of five banking regulators that is "empowered to prescribe uniform principles, standards, and report forms to promote uniformity in the supervision of financial institutions".
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Financial Post
The Financial Post is a financial news website, and business section of the National Post, both publications of the Postmedia Network.
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General assembly
A general assembly or general meeting is a meeting of all the members of an organization or shareholders of a company.
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Goldman Sachs
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company.
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iHeartMedia, Inc., or CC Media Holdings, Inc., is an American mass media corporation headquartered in San Antonio, Texas.
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Intellectual property
Intellectual property (IP) is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect.
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Internal Revenue Code
The Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (IRC), is the domestic portion of federal statutory tax law in the United States.
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Investment company
An investment company is a financial institution principally engaged in holding, managing and investing securities. Holding company and investment company are types of business entity.
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Jacor
Jacor Communications was a media corporation, existing between 1987 and 1999, which owned many radio stations in the United States.
JPMorgan Chase
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (stylized as JPMorganChase) is an American multinational finance company headquartered in New York City and incorporated in Delaware.
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Jurisdiction
Jurisdiction (from Latin juris 'law' + dictio 'speech' or 'declaration') is the legal term for the legal authority granted to a legal entity to enact justice.
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Keiretsu
A is a set of companies with interlocking business relationships and shareholdings that dominated the Japanese economy in the second half of the 20th century.
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Lawsuit
A lawsuit is a proceeding by one or more parties (the plaintiff or claimant) against one or more parties (the defendant) in a civil court of law.
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Legal person
In law, a legal person is any person or 'thing' (less ambiguously, any legal entity) that can do the things a human person is usually able to do in law – such as enter into contracts, sue and be sued, own property, and so on. Holding company and legal person are business terms and legal entities.
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List of holding companies
Under the United States Bank Holding Company Act, financial and bank holding companies are regulated by the US Federal Reserve. Holding company and List of holding companies are holding companies.
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Local marketing agreement
In North American broadcasting, a local marketing agreement (LMA), or local management agreement, is a contract in which one company agrees to operate a radio or television station owned by another party.
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Maximum and minimum
In mathematical analysis, the maximum and minimum of a function are, respectively, the largest and smallest value taken by the function.
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A media conglomerate, media company, media group, or media institution is a company that owns numerous companies involved in mass media enterprises, such as music, television, radio, publishing, motion pictures, video games, theme parks, or the Internet. Holding company and media conglomerate are types of business entity.
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A media market, broadcast market, media region, designated market area (DMA), television market area, or simply market is a region where the population can receive the same (or similar) television and radio station offerings, and may also include other types of media such as newspapers and internet content.
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Multinational corporation
A multinational corporation (MNC; also called a multinational enterprise (MNE), transnational enterprise (TNE), transnational corporation (TNC), international corporation, or stateless corporation,with subtle but contrasting senses) is a corporate organization that owns and controls the production of goods or services in at least one country other than its home country.
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National Museum of American History
The National Museum of American History: Kenneth E. Behring Center is a historical museum in Washington, D.C. It collects, preserves, and displays the heritage of the United States in the areas of social, political, cultural, scientific, and military history.
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Outline of management
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to management: Management (or managing) is the administration of organizations, whether they are a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government body.
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Patent holding company
A patent holding company (PHC) exists to hold patents on behalf of one or more other companies but does not necessarily manufacture products or supply services based upon the patents held. Holding company and patent holding company are business terms.
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Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935
The Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 (PUHCA), also known as the Wheeler-Rayburn Act, was a US federal law giving the Securities and Exchange Commission authority to regulate, license, and break up electric utility holding companies.
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Risk
In simple terms, risk is the possibility of something bad happening.
Security (finance)
A security is a tradable financial asset.
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A shareholder (in the United States often referred to as stockholder) of corporate stock refers to an individual or legal entity (such as another corporation, a body politic, a trust or partnership) that is registered by the corporation as the legal owner of shares of the share capital of a public or private corporation. Holding company and shareholder are business terms.
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Stock
Stocks (also capital stock, or sometimes interchangeably, shares) consist of all the shares by which ownership of a corporation or company is divided.
Subsidiary
A subsidiary, subsidiary company or daughter company is a company owned or controlled by another company, which is called the parent company or holding company, which has legal and financial control over the company. Holding company and subsidiary are business models, business terms, legal entities and types of business entity.
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Susquehanna Radio Corporation
The Susquehanna Radio Corporation was a media corporation that operated from 1941 to 2006 that was headquartered in York, Pennsylvania.
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Taft Broadcasting
The Taft Broadcasting Company (also known as Taft Television and Radio Company, Incorporated) was an American media conglomerate based in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Tax consolidation
Tax consolidation, or combined reporting, is a regime adopted in the tax or revenue legislation of a number of countries which treats a group of wholly owned or majority-owned companies and other entities (such as trusts and partnerships) as a single entity for tax purposes.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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Trade secret
Trade secrets are a type of intellectual property that includes formulas, practices, processes, designs, instruments, patterns, or compilations of information that have inherent economic value because they are not generally known or readily ascertainable by others, and which their owner takes reasonable measures to keep secret.
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Voting interest
Voting interest (or voting power) in business and accounting means the total number, or percent, of votes entitled to be cast on the issue at the time the determination of voting power is made, excluding a vote which is contingent upon the happening of a condition or event which has not occurred at the time.
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Wells Fargo
Wells Fargo & Company is an American multinational financial services company with a significant global presence.
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WNNX
WNNX (100.5 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to College Park, Georgia, featuring a classic alternative format as "99X".
WWWQ
WWWQ (99.7 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Atlanta, Georgia, carrying a top 40 (CHR) format known as "Q99.7".
2007–2008 financial crisis
The 2007–2008 financial crisis, or the global financial crisis (GFC), was the most severe worldwide economic crisis since the Great Depression.
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See also
Holding companies
- AKFA Group
- Anstalt
- Bank holding company
- Conglomerate companies
- Corporación Financiera Alba
- Defend ID
- Eurostar Group
- Holding company
- List of holding companies
- Stiftung
- YCP Holdings
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holding_company
Also known as Holdco, Holding Companies, Holding business, Holding firm, Holdings Company, Owner corporation, Owning company, Parent Company, Parent companies, Parent corporation, Parent organisation, Parent organization, Personal finance company, Personal holding company, Subholding.
, Stock, Subsidiary, Susquehanna Radio Corporation, Taft Broadcasting, Tax consolidation, The New York Times, Trade secret, Voting interest, Wells Fargo, WNNX, WWWQ, 2007–2008 financial crisis.