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If company A owns subsidiaries B, C and D, and customer of company C sues, then only the assets under control of company C are at risk. However, if company A is anything more than a holding company and one of company A's customers sues, then A's assets are similarly vulnerable, including A's interest in the subsidiaries!
Summary version - your holding company should be nothing more than a holding company.
There are many examples of the latter in search, including: vector disease control and palatiumcare. However, my guess is that there is little benefit to doing the former. You might run into the problems Matt mentioned above, plus running multiple types of businesses may lead you to be distracted and not as knowledgeable about any particular one and it may be harder to sell a conglomerate that an individual biz.