subsidiaries
Owned smaller companies
Subsidiaries are companies controlled by a parent company, which typically owns a majority of their voting stock.
A subsidiary operates under its own name but answers to the larger organization: The tech giant owns dozens of subsidiaries worldwide.
The term extends to anything secondary or subordinate to a main entity.
Maintaining physical possession
- parentMother or father
- affiliateConnected member organization
- conglomerateCorporation spanning many industries
- acquisitionAct of obtaining something
merger · portfolio · stake · equity · ownership · investment · multinational · incorporated
holding
Maintaining physical possession
- parentMother or father
- affiliateConnected member organization
- conglomerateCorporation spanning many industries
acquisition · merger · portfolio · stake · equity · ownership · investment · multinational · incorporated · franchise
division
Splitting into parts
arm · department · segment · offshoot · chapter · regional · local · domestic · foreign · overseas
- business combinationsmergers, cartels, conglomerates, consortiums, holding companies
- FDIjoint ventures, acquisitions, mergers, equity stake, equity stakes
- assetsproperty, cash, money, investments, bank accounts
- music industryalbum, albums, singles, record label, record labels
- organizationsorganization, organizations, company, companies, club
- company infocompany name, location, about us, address, phone number
subsidiariesparent company
Firm owning subsidiary businesses
parent companies · holding company · holding companies · parent · headquarters
subside, subsidy, subsidiary, subsidize, subsidies, subsidence, subsidized, subsided, subsides