Parent Company

What Does Parent Company Mean?
A company that controls other companies by owning an influential amount of voting stock.

Investopedia explains Parent Company
Companies can become parent companies by many different means. The two most common ways are through (1) acquisitions of smaller companies and (2) the spinoff or creation of subsidiaries.

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