List of chartered companies

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.

Notable chartered companies (with years of formation)

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.

Russian

• 1799–1867 Russian-American Company

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.

• 1889 – 1893 Filonardi Company

Gallery

• Share certificate of the Stora Kopparberg mine, dated 16 June 1288
  Share certificate of the Stora Kopparberg mine, dated 16 June 1288
• The British East India Company's headquarters in London
  The British East India Company's headquarters in London
• The arms of the British South Africa Company
  The arms of the British South Africa Company

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 and Chinese Eastern Railway

External links

• Chartered companies
• Colonial flags of Mozambique
• Hudson's Bay Company
• WorldStatesmen
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