Concept of Subsidiaries
A subsidiary is a company that is completely or partly owned by another corporation that owns more than half of the subsidiary's stock, and which normally acts as a holding corporation which at least partly or wholly controls the activities and policies of the daughter corporation.
A subsidiary is a company that is completely or partly owned by another corporation that owns more than half of the subsidiary's stock, and which normally acts as a holding corporation which at least partly or wholly controls the activities and policies of the daughter corporation. The controlling entity is called its parent company, parent, or holding company. Subsidiaries are a common feature of business life, and all multinational corporations organize their operations in this way.
A subsidiary may itself have subsidiaries, and these, in turn, may have subsidiaries of their own. A parent and all its subsidiaries together are called a "group", although this term can also apply to cooperating companies and their subsidiaries with varying degrees of shared ownership. Examples include holding companies such as Berkshire Hathaway, Time Warner, or Citigroup; as well as more focused companies such as IBM or Xerox. These, and other MNCs, organize their businesses into national and functional subsidiaries, often with multiple levels of subsidiaries.
Subsidiaries are separate, distinct legal entities for the purposes of taxation, regulation, and liability. For this reason, they differ from divisions, which are businesses fully integrated within the main company, and not legally or otherwise distinct from it. A parent company may own one or more subsidiaries, in which case each of its subsidiaries are known as ‘sister’ companies to one another.
For the purposes of liability, taxation and regulation, subsidiaries are distinct legal entities. A subsidiary can sue and be sued separately from its parent and its obligations will not normally be the obligations of its parent. If a parent company owns a foreign subsidiary, the company under which the subsidiary is incorporated must follow the laws of the country where the subsidiary operates, and the parent company still carries the foreign subsidiary's financials on its books (consolidated financial statements).
Foreign Subsidiary:
In subsidiary structure the inbound company incorporates a wholly owned subsidiary in the foreign country, making it a distinct legal entity separate from the parent company. Subsidiary incorporated by a foreign company generally is not subject to specific restrictions/limitations with respect to its activities other than the general limitations applicable to domestic entities as well. The profits earned by a foreign subsidiary are liable to tax as per the local laws and regulations of the country of operation.
The Walt Disney Company has more than 50 Subsidiaries (https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1001039/000100103917000198/fy2017_q4x10kxex21.htm).
Given below are some of its foreign subsidiaries:
- Disney FTC Services (Singapore) Pte. Ltd, Singapore
- Euro Disney Associes S.C.A. France
- Hong Kong Disneyland Management Limited, Hong Kong
- Shanghai International Theme Park Company Limited, China
- UTV Software Communications Limited, India
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