Former monopolies

1200s–1669 trade confederation in Northern Europe

British trading company (1600–1874)

1602–1799 Dutch trading company

Dutch chartered company responsible for trade and colonization in the New World (1621–1792)

defunct American oil company (1870–1911)

American financial services and communications company

Illegal monopolies by GM and others in the 1940s

Apoteket AB is a state-owned pharmaceuticals retailer in Sweden which formerly held a monopoly on the retail sale of medicines in the country. Formerly known as Apoteksbolaget, the company is a government owned enterprise reporting to the Ministry of Finance.

Danish state enterprise

former monopoly civil airline in China

Tabacalera was a Spanish tobacco company incorporated on March 5, 1945. The company was a trading company founded in 1945 by the Francoist government for the tobacco and stamps; it is a successor of Compañía Arrendataria de Tabacos, which since 1887 managed the tobacco monopoly in Spain.

Tekel A.Ş. (Turkish, literally single-hand or monopoly and generally capitalised as TEKEL) was a Turkish tobacco and alcoholic beverages company. It was nationalised in 1925 from a parastatal (government owned/controlled) company, the Régie. A joint foreign and Ottoman consortium, the Régie was short for "''La Société de la régie co-intéressée des tabacs de l'Empire Ottoman''".

Historic monopoly on trade in Iceland