Company biography definition charter
Chartered company
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
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
Scandinavian
Scottish
Spanish
See also: Casa de Contratación
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.
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- ^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.