Compagnie des Indes

Compagnie des Indes (Template:Lit) or India Company, refer to several european chartered companies involved in long-distance trading. The Indian Company, a general term, was a company that dealt with trade between a European capital and its colonies. The word India was used, until the 19th century, to refer to various lands, because the world had not yet been mapped accurately.

Great Britain

• East India Company
• Company of Scotland

Netherlands

• Dutch West India Company

Portugal

• Portuguese East India Company

Sweden

• Swedish East India Company

In France

• First French East Indies Company, in existence from 1604 to 1614
• French West India Company, active in the Western Hemisphere from 1664 to 1674
• Louis XIV's East India Company also established in 1664, merged into Law's Company in 1719
• John Law's Company, established in 1717 as Compagnie d'Occident and rebranded as Compagnie des Indes in 1719, placed into government receivership in April 1721
• French Indies Company, created in 1723 from the reorganization of the non-monetary operations of Law's Company, liquidated in 1770
• Compagnie de Calonne, established in 1785 and liquidated in 1794

See also

• Compagnie de Chine
• List of French colonial trading companies