Finance:Chartered company
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
British
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
English
French
German
Polish-Lithuanian
Portuguese
Russian
- 1799–1867 Russian-American Company
Scottish
Spanish
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
The arms of the British South Africa Company
See also
- American Colonization Society
- Articles of association
- Articles of incorporation
- Articles of organization
- British colonisation of the Americas
- Certificate of incorporation
- Charter
- Collegium
- Congressional charter
- Government-sponsored enterprise
- Hong (business)
- South Manchuria Railway and Chinese Eastern Railway
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.
External links
- Chartered companies
- Colonial flags of Mozambique
- Hudson's Bay Company
- WorldStatesmen
- Newspaper clippings about chartered companies ambitions in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW
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