English translation: activities of holding companies
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Explanation: For reasons of syntax, I would NOT put "holding companies' activities).
On the other hand, ALL companies are businesses, but they are not all doing the same activities. I think this should be distinguished.
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Also, seeing that this is an extract from the register, the term normally used is "activity" and not "business", which is too generic. In this extract, the exact type of business is stated, e.g. automobile manufacturing, sale of perfumes, real estate, shoes, etc. or whichever the business' speciality is.
Explanation: For reasons of syntax, I would NOT put "holding companies' activities).
On the other hand, ALL companies are businesses, but they are not all doing the same activities. I think this should be distinguished.
-------------------------------------------------- Note added at 6 hrs (2010-04-17 22:09:25 GMT) --------------------------------------------------
Also, seeing that this is an extract from the register, the term normally used is "activity" and not "business", which is too generic. In this extract, the exact type of business is stated, e.g. automobile manufacturing, sale of perfumes, real estate, shoes, etc. or whichever the business' speciality is.
margaret caulfield Local time: 09:28 Meets criteria Specializes in field Native speaker of: English, Spanish PRO pts in category: 29
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Thank you Margaret!@
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business activity of the holding companies
Explanation: or business activities of the holding companies.
Business Activities
We adopted a group structure in which a holding company owns the shares in six operating companies in different parts of the property market. http://www.grosvenor.com/About Grosvenor/Business Activities...
Magaret is right that you can use simply "activity" for a trade register. I often use the trade register online in the UK and here there are codes to designate types of business and they are called "activity codes", so I presume that activity would fit just fine here.
However, I did check for the trade register here and you can also use "business activity"
Principal Business Activities
This classification is based on the UK Standard Industrial Classification (SIC 03) Codes including sub-class revisions effective from 1 January 2003 http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk/about/gbhtml/gba2.shtml
juliebarba United Kingdom Local time: 08:28 Meets criteria Specializes in field Native speaker of: English PRO pts in category: 166
Explanation: … will do it for the whole line. Drop the parenthesis. And 'activity' alone is fine: the business of owning other businesses (and that's all it does) isn't much of a 'business' in the ordinary sense of the word.
rkillings United States Local time: 00:28 Meets criteria Works in field Native speaker of: English PRO pts in category: 223
The translation workplace 
peer agreement (net): +2
