Chartered company

Short description: Company created by charter

A chartered company is an association with investors or shareholders that is incorporated and granted rights (often exclusive rights) by royal charter (or similar instrument of government) for the purpose of trade, exploration, or colonization, or a combination of these.^[1]

Notable chartered companies (with years of formation)

Austrian

1719 Imperial Privileged Oriental Company
1722 Ostend Company
1775 Austrian East India Company^{[note 1]}

British

1711 South Sea Company
1752 African Company of Merchants (abolished 1821)
1792 Sierra Leone Company
1824 Van Diemen's Land Company
1825 Canada Company
1825 New Zealand Company
1835 South Australian Company
1840 Polynesia Company
1847 Eastern Archipelago Company
1853 Standard Chartered
1881 British North Borneo Company
1886 Royal Niger Company
1888 Imperial British East Africa Company
1889 British South Africa Company

The article Chartered Companies in the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, by William Bartleet Duffield, contains a detailed narrative description of the development of some of the companies in England and, later, Britain.^[2]

Dutch

1599-1602 Brabantsche Compagnie
1602–1799 Dutch East India Company (VOC)
1614 New Netherland Company
1614 Australische Compagnie
1614–1642 Noordsche Compagnie (Nordic Company)
1621–1792 Dutch West India Company^{[note 2]}
1683-1795 Sociëteit van Suriname
1720 Society of Berbice

English

1407 Company of Merchant Adventurers of London
1552 Bristol Society of Merchant Venturers
1553 Company of Merchant Adventurers to New Lands
1555 Muscovy Company
1577 Spanish Company
1579 Eastland Company
1581 Turkey Company
1583 Venice Company
1585 Barbary Company
1592 Levant Company^{[note 3]}
1600 East India Company^{[note 4]}
1606 Virginia Company
1606 Plymouth Company
1609 French Company
1610 London and Bristol Company
1616 Somers Isles Company
1618 Guinea Company
1619 New River Company
1629 Massachusetts Bay Company
1629 Providence Island Company
1635 Courteen association
1664–1674 Royal West Indian Company
1670 Hudson's Bay Company
1672 Royal African Company
1691 Hollow Sword Blade Company
1693 Greenland Company
1694 Bank of England

French

1625 Compagnie de Saint-Christophe
1627 Company of One Hundred Associates
1664 Compagnie de l'Occident
1717 Mississippi Company (Compagnie du Mississippi)
1635 Compagnie des Îles de l'Amérique
1660 Compagnie de Chine
1664 French East India Company (Compagnie des Indes orientales)
1664 French West India Company (Compagnie des Indes occidentales)

German

1682 Brandenburg African Company
1752 Emden Company
1882 German New Guinea Company
1884 German East Africa Company
1885 German West African Company
1891 Astrolabe Company

Polish-Lithuanian

1783–1793 Trade Company Poland (Black Sea Trade Company)

Portuguese

1482 Companhia da Guiné
1628 Portuguese East India Company
1888 Companhia de Moçambique
1891 Companhia do Niassa

Russian

1799–1867 Russian-American Company

Scandinavian

1347 or earlier Stora Enso
1616 Danish East India Company^{[note 5]}
1626–1680 Swedish South Company, also called New Sweden Company^{[note 6]}
1649–1667 Swedish Africa Company^{[note 7]}
1671 Danish West India Company
1721 Bergen Greenland Company
1731–1813 Swedish East India Company
1749 General Trade Company
1774 Royal Greenland Trading Department
1786–1805 Swedish West India Company^{[note 8]}^[3]
1738 Swedish Levant Company^{[note 9]}^[3]

Scottish

1634 Guinea Company of Scotland
1698 Company of Scotland

Spanish

1728–1785 Guipuzcoan Company of Caracas
1755–1785 Barcelona Trading Company
1785–1814 Royal Company of the Philippines
Honduras Company
Seville Company
Havana Company

Italian

From 3 August 1889 to 15 May 1893 Filonardi was the first Governor of Italian Somaliland and was in charge of an Italian company responsible for the administration of the Benadir territory, called Societa' Filonardi.

1889 – 1893 Filonardi Company

Gallery

Share certificate of the Stora Kopparberg mine, dated 16 June 1288
The British East India Company's headquarters in London
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The arms of the British South Africa Company

Notes

↑ The Austrian Netherlands (now Belgium), active in India.
↑ The original West India Company collapsed in 1674, and the New West India Company took its place in 1675 and persisted until 1792.
↑ Merger of the Turkey Company and the Venice Company.
↑ Became the largest colonial empire in the 19th century.
↑ Governed Danish India from Trankebar.
↑ Created in connection with the Swedish colony New Sweden (Nya Sverige); absorbed by the Dutch; presently in Delaware.
↑ On the short-lived Swedish Gold Coast.
↑ Created in connection with the colonisation of Saint Barthélemy.
↑ A failed attempt to organise Swedish trade in the eastern Mediterranean region.

References

↑ Tony Webster (25 May 2015). "British and Dutch Chartered Companies". Oxford Bibliographics. Oxford University Press. http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199730414/obo-9780199730414-0099.xml.
↑ Duffield, William Bartleet (1911). "Chartered Companies". in Chisholm, Hugh. Encyclopædia Britannica. 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 950–952.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Björn Hallerdt (1994) (in sv). Sankt Eriks årsbok 1994: Yppighet och armod i 1700-talets Stockholm. Stockholm: Samfundet S:t Erik. pp. 9–10. ISBN 91-972165-0-X.

Bibliography

Ferguson, Niall (2003). Empire—How Britain Made the Modern World. London, United Kingdom: Allan Lane.
Micklethwait, John; Wooldridge, Adrian (2003). The company: A short history of a revolutionary idea. New York: Modern Library. ISBN 9780679642497. https://archive.org/details/companyshorthist00mick.
Ross, R. (1999). A Concise History of South Africa. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521575782. https://archive.org/details/concisehistoryof00ross.

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[2] The Austrian Netherlands (now Belgium), active in India.

[4] The original West India Company collapsed in 1674, and the New West India Company took its place in 1675 and persisted until 1792.

[5] Merger of the Turkey Company and the Venice Company.

[6] Became the largest colonial empire in the 19th century.

[7] Governed Danish India from Trankebar.

[8] Created in connection with the Swedish colony New Sweden (Nya Sverige); absorbed by the Dutch; presently in Delaware.

[9] On the short-lived Swedish Gold Coast.

[10] Created in connection with the colonisation of Saint Barthélemy.

[12] A failed attempt to organise Swedish trade in the eastern Mediterranean region.

[1] Tony Webster (25 May 2015). "British and Dutch Chartered Companies". Oxford Bibliographics. Oxford University Press. http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199730414/obo-9780199730414-0099.xml.

[3] Duffield, William Bartleet (1911). "Chartered Companies". in Chisholm, Hugh. Encyclopædia Britannica. 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 950–952.

[pooooook-1994-11] 3.0 ^3.1 Björn Hallerdt (1994) (in sv). Sankt Eriks årsbok 1994: Yppighet och armod i 1700-talets Stockholm. Stockholm: Samfundet S:t Erik. pp. 9–10. ISBN 91-972165-0-X.

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