List of trading companies
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.
Overview
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".
India
Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation MMTC Ltd State Trading Corporation
United States
Archer Daniels Midland Bunge Cargill
Trading systems
Globex Trading System DME Oman Crude Oil Futures Contract
See also
Canton System Chartered company Commodity traders French colonial trading companies Fur trade Old China Trade Sogo shosha Spice wars Trade
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.
External links
Media related to Trading companies at Wikimedia Commons
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