Articles about trading companies

The Dutch West India Company

The Dutch West India Company was founded in 1621. They were a chartered company of Dutch merchants, slave traffickers, and well foreign investors.

Compania General De Tabacos De Filipinas

Tabacalera was the popular name of Compañia General de Tabacos de Filipinas S.A. - Compañia de Filipinas - which was founded in November 26, 1881 by a Spaniard from Santander, Antonio Lopez Lopez, the first Marques of Comillas.

Triester East India Company

The Triester East India Company was the last great colonial enterprise by the Habsburger. Empress Maria Theresia gave Guillaume Bolts permission to start the company in Trieste, mainly financed by Antwerp bankers.

East India Company

Great Britain was the last of the three great sea-faring nations to break into the Chinese and East Indian trade routes. This was
due in part to the unsteady ascension to the throne of the Stuarts and the Cromwellian Civil War.

China and the Silk Road

Silks, spices, tea and porcelain. These and other exotic products of China have been eagerly sought by Europeans since Roman times. But the land route through the Euroasian deserts along the "Silk Route" allowed only a trickle of Oriental products to reach the Western World.

The Ostend East-India Company

The trade from Ostend in the Austrian Netherlands to Mocha, India, Bengal and China started in 1715. Some private merchants from Antwerp, Ghent and Ostend were granted charters for the East-India-trade by the Austrian govemment that had recently come to power in the Southern Netherlands. Between 1715 and 1723, 34 ships sailed from Ostend to China, the Malabar or Coromandel coast, Surat, Bengal or Mocha.

V.O.C. or Dutch East India Company

On 20 March 1602, the prime companies of Holland merged to form a large company called "Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie (V.O.C.)