List of trading companies

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A trading company is a business that works with different kinds of products sold for consumer, business purposes. In contemporary times, trading companies buy a specialized range of products, shopkeeper 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]

## Contents

* 1 Trading companies
* 1.1 By country
* 1.1.1 Brazil
* 1.1.2 India
* 1.1.3 Japan
* 1.1.4 South Korea
* 1.1.5 United States
* 1.2 Oil traders
* 2 Trading systems
* 3 Defunct
* 4 See also
* 5 References
* 6 Further reading
* 7 External links

## Trading companies

The shipyard of the Dutch East India Company in Amsterdam. 1726 engraving by Joseph Mulder.

* Binance
* eToro
* Glencore
* Hudson's Bay Company[3]
* Jardine Matheson
* Li & Fung
* Noble Group
* Plus500
* Salt Trading Corporation
* Trading Corporation of Pakistan

### By country

#### Brazil

* Amaggi Group

#### India

* Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation
* MMTC Ltd
* State Trading Corporation

#### Japan

* Itochu
* Marubeni
* Mitsubishi Corporation
* Mitsui & Co.
* Sojitz Corporation
* Sumitomo Corporation
* Inabata & Co., Ltd.
* Toyota Tsusho

#### South Korea

* POSCO International
* Hyundai Corporation
* LG Corporation
* Samsung C&T Corporation
* SK Networks

#### United States

* Archer Daniels Midland
* Bunge
* Cargill

### Oil traders

* Chemoil
* Gunvor
* Mercuria Energy Group
* MOL Group
* Trafigura
* Vitol
* Vopak

## Trading systems

* Globex Trading System
* DME Oman Crude Oil Futures Contract

## Defunct

* Afghan-German Trading Company
* African & Eastern Trade Corporation
* Apcar and Company
* Augustine Heard & Co.
* Austrian East India Company
* Barbary Company[4]
* Bergen Greenland Company
* British East India Company[5]
* Casa da Índia
* Compagnie de Saint-Christophe
* Compagnie des Îles de l'Amérique
* Compagnie du Nord
* Company of the Moluccas
* Company of Habitants
* Company of One Hundred Associates
* Company of Scotland[6]
* Comprador
* Courteen association
* Danish East India Company
* Danish West India Company
* David Sassoon & Co.
* Dutch East India Company[7]
* Dutch West India Company[8]
* E.D. Sassoon & Co.
* Essequibo Society
* French East India Company
* French West India Company
* Gebr. Heinemann
* General Trade Company
* Genoese East India Company
* Gibb, Livingston & Co.
* Guinea Company (London)
* Guinea Company of Scotland[9]
* Guipuzcoan Company of Caracas
* Hong Kong, Canton & Macao Steamboat Company
* Hutchison Whampoa
* Indonesia Trading Company
* John Forbes and Company
* Kaptallah
* King George's Sound Company
* Kompania Handlowa Polska
* Kunst and Albers
* Lamson & Hubbard Trading Company
* Levant Company
* London and Bristol Company
* London Company
* Middelburgsche Commercie Compagnie
* Mississippi Company
* Muscovy Company
* North West Company
* Northern Traders Company
* Northwest Cameroon Company
* Olyphant & Co.
* Portuguese East India Company
* Royal African Company[10]
* Royal Greenland Trading Department
* Royal Philippine Company
* Samuel Samuel & Co
* Shewan, Tomes & Co.
* Society for Navigation on Essequibo and adjacent Rivers
* Society of Berbice
* Society of Suriname
* Somers Isles Company
* South Cameroon Company
* Spoors & Sprenger
* Swedish East India Company[11]
* Swedish Levant Company
* Swedish South Company
* Swedish West India Company
* Takahashi Trading Company
* Virginia Company

## See also

* Canton System
* Chartered company
* Commodity traders
* French colonial trading companies
* Fur trade
* Old China Trade
* Sogo shosha
* Spice wars
* Trade

## References

1. ↑ "Trading company (definition)". Businessdictionary.com. http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/trading-company.html.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Trading company (definition)". Merriam-Webster. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trading company.
3. ↑ Simmons, D. (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. https://books.google.com/books?id=y7pT8yTwbnsC.
4. ↑ 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
5. ↑ "East India Company" (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, Volume 8, p.835
6. ↑ 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.
7. ↑ 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, https://archive.org/stream/authenticaccount01vanb#page/n5/mode/2up v.2
8. ↑ "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". 1630. http://www.wdl.org/en/item/4068/.
9. ↑ Law, Robin (1997). "The First Scottish Guinea Company, 1634-9". The Scottish Historical Review (Edinburgh University Press) 76 (202): 185–202. doi:10.3366/shr.1997.76.2.185.
10. ↑ Davies, K.G. (1999). The Royal African Company, Volume 5. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0415190770. https://books.google.com/books?id=w9sH0h391c8C.
11. ↑ 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. http://libris.kb.se/bib/218016.

## Further reading

* Carlos, Ann M., and Stephen Nicholas. "'Giants of an Earlier Capitalism': The Chartered Trading Companies as Modern Multinationals". Business history review 62.3 (1988): 398–419. in JSTOR
* Ferguson, Niall. The ascent of money: A financial history of the world (2008).
* Jones, Geoffrey. Multinationals and Global Capitalism: From the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first Century (2004)
* Lipson, E. The Economic History of England (1931) pp 184–370 gives capsule histories of 10 major English trading companies: The Merchant Adventurers, the East India Company, the Eastland Company, the Russia Company, the Levant Company, the African Company, the Hudson's Bay Company, the French Company, the Spanish Company, and the South Sea Company.

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