The financial giants

Abstract

When half a High Street’s shops are under the control of one company, when the Head Office bears a couple of dozen nameplates, when one man wields influence over six different industries, there is bound to be jealousy. But that is not all that makes some people uneasy about the financial giants, the sometimes almost anonymous financial giants who control ‘holding companies’. These companies, by having controlling interests in numbers of other companies, can, through one board of directors, influence great areas of industry and commerce.