African Company information

Africa Royal African Company, 17th- and 18th-century English chartered company mainly active in the Atlantic slave trade African Company of Merchants...

The Royal African Company (RAC) was an English trading company established in 1660 by the House of Stuart and City of London merchants to trade along the...

renamed to National African Company in 1881 and to Royal Niger Company in 1886. In 1929, the company became part of the United Africa Company, which came under...

being African. This was also merged into the Northern Rhodesia Police in 1912, which then numbered only 18 European and 775 African in six companies, divided...

The African Company of Merchants or Company of Merchants Trading to Africa was a British chartered company operating from 1752 to 1821 in the Gold Coast...

East Africa Company (IBEAC) was a commercial association founded to develop African trade in the areas controlled by the British Empire. The company was...

South African company law is that body of rules which regulates corporations formed under the Companies Act. A company is a business organisation which...

their abbreviations, see "Business entities in South Africa". This list includes notable companies with primary headquarters located in the country. The...

result of the merger of The Niger Company, which had been effectively owned by Lever Brothers since 1920, and the African & Eastern Trade Corporation. In...

African explorer with whom he traveled to Africa. While in Africa with the explorer, Wissmann became associated with the German East Africa Company,...

The Swedish Africa Company (Swedish: Svenska Afrikanska Kompaniet) was a Swedish trading company, founded in 1649 on the initiative of the Walloon-Dutch...

The African Lakes Corporation plc was a British company originally set-up in 1877 by Scottish businessmen to co-operate with Presbyterian missions in...

Imperial Privileged Oriental Company 1722 Ostend Company 1775 Austrian East India Company 1711 South Sea Company 1752 African Company of Merchants (abolished...

The following is a list of notable private military contractors and companies. Executive Outcomes, (ceased operations on January 1, 1999; apparently restarted...

The main focus of the company at first was trading with the Niger River area and other west African ports, bringing west-African palm oil back to Britain...

Afghan-German Trading Company African & Eastern Trade Corporation Apcar and Company Augustine Heard & Co. Austrian East India Company Barbary Company Bergen Greenland...

proprietary company, the characteristic of which is abbreviated as "Pty", is a form of privately held company in Australia, Namibia and South Africa that is...

trading companies: The Merchant Adventurers, the East India Company, the Eastland Company, the Russia Company, the Levant Company, the African Company, the...

the South African Reserve Bank. The South African Bank Note Company was established in 1958 as a result of a decision by the South African Government...

kinds were raised. To meet them the capital of the company (renamed the National African Company) was increased from £250,000 to £1,000,000, and great...

The Virginia Company was an English trading company chartered by King James I on 10 April 1606 with the objective of colonizing the eastern coast of America...

West Central Africa. Liverpool traders maintained a close relationship with African trading chiefs, and developed a network of African contacts. Liverpool...

Airports Company of South Africa Limited (ACSA) is a majority (94.6%) state-owned South African airport management company. Founded in 1993, ACSA operates...

Western Africa." The Journal of African History 13.02 (1972): 237–248. Rink, Oliver A. "Private Interest and Godly Gain: The West India Company and the...

is used to refer to a private limited company. All South African companies are regulated by the CIPC (Companies and Intellectual Property Commission)...

comprises the largest companies currently in Africa by revenue as of 2022, according to the ranking of the largest 500 companies in Africa by Jeune Afrique...

West Africa (Togo and Cameroon) but did not actually govern them — unlike its counterpart in German East Africa. The German West African Company was established...

The African Company of Merchants was established by Act of Parliament as a successor organisation to the Royal African Company in 1752. Provision was made...