List of trading companies
This is a list of trading companies. A trading company is a business that works with different kinds of products sold for consumer, business or government purposes. In contemporary times, trading companies buy a specialized range of products, broker them, and coordinate delivery of products to customers.
Trading companies may connect buyers and sellers, but not partake in the ownership or storage of goods, earning their revenue through sales commissions.[1] They may also be structured to engage in commerce with foreign countries or territories.[2] During times of colonization, some trading companies were granted a charter, giving them "rights to a specific territory within an area claimed by the authority granting the charter including legal title, a monopoly of trade, and governmental and military jurisdiction".[2] Furthermore, trading companies may comprise a limited liability, unincorporated entity, designed to "settle and develop a land grant obtained from a legally incorporated company".[2]
Trading companies
- ABN Assets
- African & Eastern Trade Corporation
- Augustine Heard & Co.
- Austrian East India Company
- Barbary Company [3]
- Bergen Greenland Company
- Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation
- CFAO
- Compagnie de Chine
- Compagnie de Saint-Christophe
- Compagnie des Îles de l'Amérique
- Compagnie du Nord
- Company of One Hundred Associates
- Company of Scotland [4]
- Company of the Moluccas
- Comprador
- Courteen association
- Danish East India Company
- Danish West India Company
- Dent & Co.
- Dieppe Company
- Dodwell & Co.
- Dutch East India Company [5]
- Dutch West India Company [6]
- East India Company [7]
- French East India Company
- French West India Company
- General Trade Company
- Gibb, Livingston & Co.
- Guinea Company (London)
- Guinea Company of Scotland [8]
- Guipuzcoan Company of Caracas
- Hudson's Bay Company [9]
- Hutchison Whampoa
- Indonesia Trading Company
- MMTC Ltd
- Jardine Matheson
- Kaptallah
- King George's Sound Company
- Kunst and Albers
- Lamson & Hubbard Trading Company
- Li & Fung
- London Company
- London and Bristol Company
- Middelburgsche Commercie Compagnie
- Mississippi Company
- Muscovy Company, English trading company chartered in 1555 as the first major chartered joint stock company
- North West Company
- Northern Traders Company
- Northwest Cameroon Company
- Olyphant & Co.
- Plus500
- Portuguese East India Company
- Royal African Company [10]
- Royal Greenland Trading Department
- Samuel Samuel & Co
- Shewan, Tomes & Co.
- Society of Berbice
- Society of Suriname
- Somers Isles Company
- South Cameroon Company
- Swedish East India Company [11]
- Swedish West India Company
- TeleTrade
- Virginia Company
By Country
Brazil
Japan
Oil traders
See also
- Canton System
- Fur trade
- Lists of companies (category)
- Old China Trade
- Spice wars
- Trade
References
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- ↑ "Trading company (definition)". Businessdictionary.com. Retrieved 18 September 2014.
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- ↑ Cawston, George; Keane, Augustus Henry (1896). The Early Chartered Companies (A.D. 1296-1858). p. 236. The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2001 ISBN 1-58477-196-8
- ↑ Papers Relating to the Ships and Voyages of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies, 1696-1707 edited by George Pratt Insh, M.A., Scottish History Society, Edinburgh University Press, 1924.
- ↑ Braam Houckgeest, Andre Everard Van (1798), An authentic account of the embassy of the Dutch East-India Company, to the court of the emperor of China, in the years 1794 and 1795, London: R. Phillips, OCLC 002094734 v.2
- ↑ "Freedoms, as Given by the Council of the Nineteen of the Chartered West India Company to All those who Want to Establish a Colony in New Netherland". World Digital Library. 1630. Retrieved 2013-07-28.
- ↑ "East India Company" (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, Volume 8, p.835
- ↑ Law, Robin (1997). "The First Scottish Guinea Company, 1634-9". The Scottish Historical Review. Edinburgh University Press. 76 (202): 185–202. JSTOR 25530774.
- ↑ Simmons, Deidre (2007). Keepers of the Record: The History of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives. McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 978-0-7735-6049-9. line feed character in
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- ↑ Koninckx, Christian (1980). The first and second charters of the Swedish East India company (1731-1766): a contribution to the maritime, economic and social history of north-western Europe in its relationships with the Far East. Kortrijk: Van Ghemmert.