The Intercorp group based in Lima is a holding company in Peru.
A holding company, also known as a holding company or simply a holding company, is a commercial company whose main or only function is to own or manage the ownership of other companies or companies.
It can be considered a form of business integration, with all the benefits it represents, but also arises when a group of capitalists is acquiring different properties and firms, simply looking for the profitability of each and not the integration of their activities. In some countries antitrust laws may restrict this practice.
There are holdings that are created through banks and other financial entities, a holding that starts from the patrimony of a family and also a holding made up of state companies.
There are holding companies that are a group of companies with common or related capitals that seek to maximize their economic resources, using the synergies that exist between the companies that comprise it simply because they all belong to the same industry or sector. < / p> Other uses of the term
There is a holding company like the farmland of the middle age of the feudal system.
A holding company also defined as: Domination of the manufacture and price of several products buying a part of the shares of the others.
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