A trading company is a business that works with different kinds of products sold for consumer, business purposes. In contemporary times, trading companies buy a specialized range of products, shopkeeper them, and coordinate delivery of products to customers.
Trading companies may connect buyers and sellers, but not partake in the ownership or storage of goods, earning their revenue through sales commissions. They may also be structured to engage in commerce with foreign countries or territories. During times of colonization, some trading companies were granted a charter, giving them "rights to a specific territory within an area claimed by the authority granting the charter including legal title, a monopoly of trade, and governmental and military jurisdiction".
Trading companies
D.TRADING Glencore Hudson's Bay Company Jardine Matheson Li & Fung Noble Group Plus500 Salt Trading Corporation Trading Corporation of Pakistan
By country
Brazil
Amaggi Group
India Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation MMTC Ltd State Trading Corporation
Japan
Itochu Marubeni Mitsubishi Corporation Mitsui & Co. Sojitz Corporation Sumitomo Corporation Inabata & Co., Ltd. Toyota Tsusho
South Korea
POSCO International Hyundai Corporation LG Corporation Samsung C&T Corporation SK Networks
United States Archer Daniels Midland Bunge Cargill
Oil traders
Chemoil Gunvor Mercuria Energy Group MOL Group Trafigura Vitol Vopak
Trading systems Globex Trading System DME Oman Crude Oil Futures Contract
Defunct
Afghan-German Trading Company African & Eastern Trade Corporation Apcar and Company Augustine Heard & Co. Austrian East India Company Barbary CompanyCawston, George; Keane, Augustus Henry (1896). The Early Chartered Companies (A.D. 1296-1858). p. 236. The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2001 Bergen Greenland Company British East India Company"East India Company" (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, Volume 8, p.835 Casa da Índia Compagnie de Saint-Christophe Compagnie des Îles de l'Amérique Compagnie du Nord Company of the Moluccas Company of Habitants Company of One Hundred Associates Company of ScotlandPapers Relating to the Ships and Voyages of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies, 1696-1707 edited by George Pratt Insh, M.A., Scottish History Society, Edinburgh University Press, 1924. Comprador Courteen association Danish East India Company Danish West India Company David Sassoon & Co. Dutch East India Company v.2 Dutch West India Company E.D. Sassoon & Co. Essequibo Society French East India Company French West India Company Gebr. Heinemann General Trade Company Genoese East India Company Gibb, Livingston & Co. Guinea Company (London) Guinea Company of Scotland Guipuzcoan Company of Caracas Hong Kong, Canton & Macao Steamboat Company Hutchison Whampoa Indonesia Trading Company John Forbes and Company Kaptallah King George's Sound Company Kompania Handlowa Polska Kunst and Albers Lamson & Hubbard Trading Company Levant Company London and Bristol Company London Company Middelburgsche Commercie Compagnie Mississippi Company Muscovy Company North West Company Northern Traders Company Northwest Cameroon Company Olyphant & Co. Portuguese East India Company Royal African Company Royal Greenland Trading Department Royal Philippine Company Russian-American Company Samuel Samuel & Co Shewan, Tomes & Co. Society for Navigation on Essequibo and adjacent Rivers Society of Berbice Society of Suriname Somers Isles Company South Cameroon Company Spoors & Sprenger Swedish East India Company Swedish Levant Company Swedish South Company Swedish West India Company Takahashi Trading Company Virginia Company
See also
Canton System Chartered company Commodity traders French colonial trading companies Fur trade Old China Trade Sogo shosha Spice wars Trade
References
Further reading Carlos, Ann M., and Stephen Nicholas. "'Giants of an Earlier Capitalism': The Chartered Trading Companies as Modern Multinationals". Business history review 62.3 (1988): 398–419. in JSTOR Ferguson, Niall. The ascent of money: A financial history of the world (2008). Jones, Geoffrey. Multinationals and Global Capitalism: From the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first Century (2004) Lipson, E. The Economic History of England (1931) pp 184–370 gives capsule histories of 10 major English trading companies: The Merchant Adventurers, the East India Company, the Eastland Company, the Russia Company, the Levant Company, the African Company, the Hudson's Bay Company, the French Company, the Spanish Company, and the South Sea Company.
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