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This sounds like the common practice of squatting on a domain name. People who are good at it don't squat on the same set of names forever; they adjust their po
by kijin 8y ago
This sounds like the common practice of squatting on a domain name. People who are good at it don't squat on the same set of names forever; they adjust their portfolios based on what's trendy at the time and let unprofitable names expire. People who peddle shelf corporations might do the same, except they can easily rename their wares.
And of course, just like domain names, you can't register more than one corporation with the same name in the same jurisdiction.
Whoever owns this company has probably gone through several phases during which they thought there might be heavy demand for names related to Chinese resources, e-healthcare, education, land, and capital management. They also seem to have a procedure in place that reverts an unsold shelf corporation to a placeholder name or internal identifier (Premier Dragon) after a while.
- baybal2 8y agoIf they were shelf companies, they would be laying cold, and not conducting commercial operations
- nicolas_t 8y agoWhich seems to be the case here, he did say those companies were dormant.
- Jaruzel 8y agomy first UK company was a 'shelf' company. It was already pre-registered with a name ( which I never changed ) and all I had to was sign a document and pay a small fee to take it over. At the time it was WAY faster than starting one from scratch. These days it's just as fast to create a company from scratch as it's all online. My second and third companies were 'from scratch'.
- guan 8y agoThe situation in Denmark is the same. Back when pre-registered companies were more common, the Stakemann law firm in Copenhagen had a big share of this market, and Peter Andreas Stakemann is the founder of a large number of Danish companies. This company registry page lists him as connected to 2,000 companies, mostly as founder or initial director. I suspect the system is limiting the displayed list to 2,000 and he is actually connected to tens of thousands of companies. https://datacvr.virk.dk/data/visenhed?enhedstype=person&id=4000448343&soeg=peter%20andreas%20stakemann&type=Alle&language=da https://datacvr.virk.dk/data/visenhed?enhedstype=person&id=4...