Use case
Company ownership map
A company ownership map shows who owns what: the shareholders, holding companies and subsidiaries behind a business, and the people at the top of each chain. Drawn as a network rather than a tree, it shows the cross-holdings and shared owners that a corporate structure chart leaves out.
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What to put on it
- Each company as an organisation node, and each person as a person node.
- Each stake as a directed business tie from owner to owned, labelled with the share ("owns 51%").
- Board seats and management roles as separate ties, so control and ownership are not confused.
- A source URL for every stake: a filing, an annual report or a news report, with its confidence level.
- Dates on every stake, so the timeline shows how the structure was assembled.
Reading it
Look for people or holding companies with high betweenness: they sit between the ultimate owner and the operating companies. Look for cut points: an entity whose removal splits the group is often the one a restructuring or a sanction turns on.
Who owns the Premier League maps the owners of England's top football clubs and the funds, states and families behind them, every tie sourced.