Legal Definition and Related Resources of Conglomerate

A company that controls a group of other companies engaged in unrelated businesses. A combination in which constituent companies are not in the relationship of competitors or of buyer and seller .

A firm engaged in two or more unrelated businesses.

A corporation that has diversified its operations usually by acquiring enterprises in widely varied industries.

adjective

• accumulated
• agglomerate
• aggregate
• amalgamated
• amassed
• assembled
• blended
• brought together
• collected
• collectivized
• combined
• complex
• composite
• compound
• compounded
• congregate
• congregated
• cumulated
• gathered into a round mass
• glomerate
• indiscriminate
• inseparable
• mass
• mingled
• miscellaneous
• mixed
• united
• varied

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Definition of Conglomerate

The Canada social science dictionary [1] provides the following meaning of Conglomerate: A corporate organization in which divergent enterprises retain separate organizational and legal structures but are joined together by the controlling ownership of a corporate holding company. For example, companies B, C, and D may all be owned by company A. This whole structure is called a conglomerate.

Conglomerate: Resources

Notes and References

• Drislane, R., & Parkinson, G. (2016). (Concept of) Conglomerate. Online dictionary of the social sciences. Open University of Canada

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Translation of Conglomerate

• Spanish: Conglomerado de empresas
• French: Conglomérat
• German: Mischkonzern
• Italian: Conglomerato
• Portuguese: Conglomerado de empresas
• Polish: Konglomerat

Thesaurus of Conglomerate

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See also

• Anti-trust legislation