In the worst cases the freeholder, management company and insurer are all affiliated or part of the same parent company.
Each one is automatically a gang affiliate, part of one crew or another, depending entirely on where they live.
"A number of years ago, when cable TV began, the network and affiliate part of the business said, 'Oh, it's only that wacky guy in suburban Atlanta broadcasting old movies over and over again.' If you ask them now, they'll say they made Ted Turner rich, and they lost an opportunity".
Ford Motor will build a third factory in China to make cars with its Mazda Motor affiliate, part of a $1.5 billion investment to catch rivals who have expanded quicker in the world's third-biggest car market, said executives of the two companies who declined to be identified.
It's "2.0 boom" era business model didn't get traction, but Alicia Navarro, being an extremely good entrepreneur, realised the affiliate part of her business was the *real* business she was after.
That Wagstaff has written an opera set in the world of academia as part of his music PhD submission for Edinburgh University - to which Edinburgh Studio Opera is affiliated - seems apt, part of an in-joke perhaps that also has Trevelyan's computer Lucie talking about opera with her programmers and crashing when she doesn't recognise the name Puccini.
Affiliated with Hunter College, part of the City University of New York, the high school is publicly financed and managed, but not run by the city's Department of Education.
"The Diaoyu islands and affiliated islands are part of China's inherent territory," he said.
That's what a Newsweek magazine claimed in 2009 when it observed the burgeoning world of the "nones". "Nones" are those not affiliated with any part of the American religious heritage.
V Parrow is now primary affiliated to and part owner of Akinion Pharmaceuticals AB.
