Category
page 1Chartered companies
East India Company
British trading company (1600–1874)
Dutch East India Company
1602–1799 Dutch trading company
Dutch West India Company
Dutch chartered company responsible for trade and colonization in the New World (1621–1792)
Hudson's Bay Company
Canadian retail business group, former fur trading business
Russian-American Company
company
Danish East India Company
company
Muscovy Company
16th-century business enterprise
Brandenburger Gold Coast
Prussian colony located in modern Ghana, 1683-1721
South Sea Company
British joint-stock company founded in 1711
Danish West India Company
Danish chartered company
French West India Company
French trading company from 1664 to 1674
Royal African Company
English slave trading company
Mississippi Company
monopoly in French colonies in North America and the West Indies
Virginia Company
17th-century English trading company
Swedish West India Company
Svenska Västindiska Kompaniet
Ostend Company
trade company
German East Africa Company
company
North Borneo Chartered Company
British company which administered the colony of North Borneo (1881-1946)
chartered company
company created to colonize and trade
Portuguese East India Company
short-lived colonial charter company
New Zealand Company
company formed for the purpose of colonising New Zealand
megacorporation
Megacorporations are a form of corporate entity differentiated by their global scale of activities and broad scope of influence, which exceed even those of a multinational corporation (MNC). They are often characterised by monopolistic control over multiple markets—and sometimes even trade in general—and the exercising of quasi-governmental powers, either via control of the government (such as through a private militia or extensive corruption) or through the governing of their own sovereign territory.
Royal Niger Company
mercantile company chartered by the British government in the nineteenth century
Levant Company
English chartered company formed in 1592
Casa da Índia
company
Niassa Company
royal company in the Portuguese colony of Mozambique
Sierra Leone Company
corporate body involved in founding the second British colony in Africa
Company of One Hundred Associates
1600s French fur-trading company in Canada
Swedish Africa Company
Swedish trading company, founded in 1649
German New Guinea Company
business
Mozambique Company
company
Company of Scotland
Scottish colonization company
German West African Company
Noordsche Compagnie
Dutch whaling cartel of the 17th century
Royal Greenland Trading Department
Danish state enterprise
Compagnie des Îles de l'Amérique
French charted company
Society of Suriname
Dutch private company
Swedish South Company
Swedish transatlantic trading company
Royal Company of the Philippines
Spanish trading company
Brandenburgisch-Africanische Compagnie
transport company
Company of Merchant Adventurers of London
chartered company
Compagnie du Sénégal
Three chartered companies of the Kingdom of France in the late 17th and early 18th centuries
Compañía Guipuzcoana de Caracas
Spanish Basque trading company in the 18th century
Emden Company
company
Barbary Company
16th-century organization
Providence Island Company
English chartered company founded in 1629 by a group of Puritans to establish the Providence Island colony on Providence Island
African Company of Merchants
chartered company operating in the British gold coast
Company of Guinea
1443–1503 Portuguese colonial commercial institution
Van Diemen's Land Company
farming corporation
Venice Company
English trading company
Company of Merchant Adventurers to New Lands
founded in 1551, which later developed into the Muscovy Company or the Russia Company
Companhia da Zambézia