What is on the Corporate Linkage tab?

Expanded corporate linkage allows you to more easily view and assess risk across different parts of an organization.

Corporate linkage is the relationship between different companies within a corporate family. Linkage occurs in the D&B database when one business entity "controls" another business entity because it has financial or legal responsibility for another business, creating a Headquarter/Branch or Parent/Subsidiary relationship.

The information in this section is updated monthly and reflects mergers, acquisitions, openings and closings through the update. For additional details that may have occurred after the update, please review the Special Events and History and Operations sections.

The following types of company family members, when available, will appear in the new "Corporate Linkage" section of Company Details. This section appears in the "History and Operations" area of the report.

Global Ultimate: The Global Ultimate is the top most responsible entity within the corporate family tree.
Domestic Ultimate: The Domestic Ultimate is a subsidiary within the global family tree that is the highest-ranking member within a specific country.
Headquarters: A headquarter is a family member that has branches or divisions reporting to it and is financially responsible for those branches or divisions. If headquarters is more than 50% owned by another corporation, it will also be a subsidiary. If it owns more than 50% of another corporation, then it is also a parent.
Branch: A branch is a secondary location of its headquarters. It has no legal responsibility for its debts, even though bills may be paid from the branch location.
Parent: A parent is a corporation that owns more than 50% of another corporation. A parent can also be a headquarter if it owns branches.
Subsidiary: A subsidiary is a corporation that is more than 50% owned by another corporation and will have a different legal business name from its parent company. There are also single location subsidiaries where the subsidiary does not have anything reporting to it.
Affiliate: Affiliated companies are related to a business through common ownership by the direct parent company. All of them share the same parent company. A direct parent company is a corporation that owns more than 50% of another corporation's capital stock.

The number of family members is limited to 25 each for space reasons in this report. If a business has more branches, subsidiaries, or affiliates, you will be notified. You can use D&B's Global Family Linkage product to purchase the complete list.

Note that there are other types of family relationships that are not linked in the D&B database because the affiliated company has no legal obligation for the debts of the other company. Examples of these types of relationships include businesses affiliated through common officers or situations where one corporation owns a part or minority interest in another (50% or less).