HOLDING COMPANY
A corporation that limits its business to the own-
ership of stock in and the supervision of manage-
ment of other corporations.
A holding company is organized specifically
to hold the stock of other companies and ordi-
narily owns such a dominant interest in the
other company or companies that it can dictate
policy. Holding companies must comply with
the federal ANTITRUST LAWS that proscribe the
secret and total acquisition of the stock of one
corporation by another, since this would lessen
