Different control modes:
The parent company refers to a company that can actually control the business decision of another company by owning a certain equity or through a contract.
Enterprise group refers to a certain-scale enterprise legal person consortium with capital as the main link and peers as the standard, which is composed of parent companies, subsidiaries, shareholding companies and other member enterprises or institutions. Enterprise group does not have the qualification of enterprise legal person.
Different states:
Parent companies (subsidiaries) can be divided into parent companies and subsidiaries according to their different positions in the relationship between control and controlled. The company that actually controls other companies is the parent company. The company actually controlled by other companies is a subsidiary. They all have legal personality.
The group company is a consortium of enterprise legal persons, and the parent company is the leading member of the enterprise group. In order to comprehensively manage more parent companies, subsidiaries, branches and other institutions with independent legal persons, it is planned to meet the management requirements of unified control of the group. Enterprise group does not have the qualification of enterprise legal person.
Group company: a group company organized to act together for a certain purpose. It refers to an enterprise legal person consortium with capital as the main link, parent company as the main body and group articles of association as the norm, which is composed of members such as parent company, subsidiary company and holding company. Generally speaking, a group company refers to a large company with many production and operation institutions. It generally manages large-scale assets, governs many production and business units, and has its own rights and interests in many other enterprises.
There is no "group" in the company law, only limited liability companies and joint stock limited companies. However, in reality, we often see the name of a group company. In fact, this is just a company (or enterprise) alliance formed by the close relationship between several companies in business, circulation and production.
In addition, some companies have diversified their business strategies and set up corresponding subsidiaries in many fields. In this way, the parent-subsidiary company will form an enterprise group because of this "blood relationship", which is quite similar to the group army in the army. These are the origins of the group companies we often talk about.
Parent company: In international business, it refers to the head office that is headquartered in the home country and effectively controls overseas economic entities through foreign direct investment. Most of the parent companies of multinational corporations are established by the capital of one country, but in a few cases, they may be jointly established by the capital of two or more countries. As the decision-making center of the whole multinational company, the parent company is a legal person organization registered in the government agency of the home country, and is responsible for organizing and managing all the production and business activities of the multinational company at home and abroad.
Companies can be divided into parent companies and subsidiaries according to their different positions in the relationship between control and controlled. The company that actually controls other companies is the parent company, and the company that is actually controlled by other companies is the subsidiary company. They all have legal personality.