551114 Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices

Official definition

This U.S. industry comprises establishments (except government establishments) primarily engaged in administering, overseeing, and managing other establishments of the company or enterprise. These establishments normally undertake the strategic or organizational planning and decision-making role of the company or enterprise. Establishments in this industry may hold the securities of the company or enterprise.

Examples Census gives

• Centralized administrative offices
• Head offices
• Corporate offices
• Holding companies that manage
• District and regional offices
• Subsidiary management offices

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS descriptions.

When to use a different code

Census classifies these close-sounding activities somewhere else. Businesses mainly engaged in:

• Government establishments primarily engaged in administering, overseeing, and managing governmental programs are classified in Sector 92, Public Administration.
• Legal entities known as bank holding companies that do not administer, oversee, and manage other establishments of the companies or enterprises whose securities they hold are classified in U.S. Industry 551111, Offices of Bank Holding Companies.
• Legal entities known as holding companies (except bank holding) that do not administer, oversee, and manage other establishments of the companies or enterprises whose securities they hold are classified in U.S. Industry 551112, Offices of Other Holding Companies.
• Establishments primarily engaged in providing a range of day-to-day office administrative services for other companies or enterprises on a contract or fee basis are classified in Industry 561110, Office Administrative Services.

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS cross-references.

Businesses that use this code

• Holding company

Activities listed under 551114

The Census index assigns these 7 activities to this code. If your business matches one, this is your code.

• Centralized administrative offices
• Corporate offices
• District and regional offices
• Head offices
• Headquarters offices
• Holding companies that manage
• Subsidiary management offices

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS index file.

Closest UK SIC 2007 codes

There is no official one-to-one link between NAICS and UK SIC. These codes share the same international class (ISIC Rev. 4: 7010), so treat them as a starting point and check the definition.

• 70100Activities of head officesUK SIC

Built from Census concordances 2022→2017 NAICS and 2017 NAICS→ISIC Rev. 4.

Similar codes to compare

• 551111Offices of Bank Holding Companies
• 551112Offices of Other Holding Companies