Chartered trading companies founded from 1600 to 1799, the age of the great East and West India companies of the Dutch, English and Danes and the joint-stock speculation that followed. An organization belongs here when its cited article gives a founding or establishment date inside this span. It excludes organizations founded earlier or later, which sit in the neighboring groups of the same kind, and it does not turn on how large or long-lived an organization became.
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Chartered Trading Companies Founded from 1600 to 1799
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East India Company (Wikipedia)
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The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company that was founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874.
Dutch East India Company (Wikipedia)
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Established on 20 March 1602 by the States General of the Netherlands amalgamating existing companies, it was granted a 21-year monopoly to carry out trade activities in Asia.
Wikipedia: South Sea Company
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The South Sea Company was a British joint-stock company founded in January 1711, created as a public-private partnership to consolidate and reduce the cost of the national debt.
Wikipedia: Danish East India Company
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The first company operated between 1616 and 1650.
Wikipedia: Hudson's Bay Company
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It was the oldest corporation in North America, founded in 1670 and liquidated in 2025.
Wikipedia: French East India Company
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Louis XIV's East India Company (French: Compagnie des Indes orientales French pronunciation: [kɔ̃paɲi dez‿ɛ̃d ɔʁjɑ̃tal]) was a joint-stock company founded in the Kingdom of France in August 1664 to engage in trade in India and other Asian lands, complementing the French West India Company (French: Compagnie des Indes occidentales) created three months before.
Wikipedia: Royal African Company
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The Royal African Company (RAC) was an English trading company established in 1660 by the House of Stuart and City of London merchants to trade along the West African coast.
Wikipedia: Swedish East India Company
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During its entire existence from 1731 to 1813, the SOIC made 131 voyages, using 37 different ships.
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