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)
American
• 1865–1881 American Trading Company of Borneo
Austrian
• 1719 Imperial Privileged Oriental Company
• 1722 Ostend Company
• 1775 Austrian East India Company[2]
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
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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
Bibliography
External links
References
- Tony Webster. British and Dutch Chartered Companies Oxford Bibliographics, Oxford University Press, 25 May 2015, retrieved 30 December 2018^
- The Austrian Netherlands (now Belgium), active in India.^
- William Bartleet Duffield. ^