The Company of the Indies promised to send over a supply of Indian trading goods, and to price them more cheaply in terms of deerskins.

Thus the competitors united to form the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie ( VOC ) ( the ‘ Dutch East Indies Company ).

In 1658 the Dutch West Indies Company seized French territory to establish the Dutch colony of Cayenne.

The Company of Scotland received a charter to raise capital through public subscription to trade with Africa and the Indies.

Outside the East Indies, the Dutch East India Company colonies or outposts were also established in Persia ( now Iran ), Bengal ( now Bangladesh and part of India ), Mauritius ( 1638-1658 / 1664-1710 ), Siam ( now Thailand ), Guangzhou ( Canton, China ), Taiwan ( 1624 – 1662 ), and southern India ( 1616 – 1795 ).

During the 18th century, Dutch East India Company possessions were increasingly focused on the East Indies.

During the era of New Imperialism the territorial claims of the Dutch East India Company ( VOC ) expanded into a fully fledged colony named the Dutch East Indies.

Following commercial rivalries between the original English East India Company and a New East India Company created in 1698, a new Company was formed in 1708 by amalgamation, and entitled the “ United Company of Merchants of England, trading to the East Indies ”.

The island has a small population of a few thousand inhabitants, mainly descended from Africans, Mixed race African and Europeans, British settlers, East India Company employees and indentured labourers from the South Asian sub-Continent, East Indies, Madagascar and China.

Darwent with his Paria Petroleum Company Limited, and Conrad F. Stollmeyer ( who was great grandfather of Republic Bank ’ s then Chairman, former West Indies cricket captain, Jeffrey Stollmeyer ), an entrepreneur of that period who felt that a combustible fuel could not be distilled out of the asphalt from the pitch lake.

* June 4 – Dutch East India Company ship Batavia is wrecked on a reef near Beacon Island off Western Australia on her maiden voyage to the Indies.

* Merger ( with consent of the Parliament of Great Britain ) of the Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies and the more recently established English Company Trading to the East Indies to form the United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies, known as the Honourable East India Company.

From 2008 to 2012, the company was run through a holding company of NRDC, Hudson's Bay Trading Company, which was dissolved on 23 January 2012.

Porsche Automobil Holding SE, usually shortened to Porsche () or Porsche SE, a Societas Europaea or European Public Company, is a German holding company with investments in the automotive industry.

* North American Company, an electric utility holding company, broken up by the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) in 1946.

In June that same year, Saudi Arabian Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud cut a deal whereby the Walt Disney Company bought 51 % of a new US $ 1. 1 billion share issue, the rest being offered to existing shareholders at below-market rates, with the Prince buying any that were not taken up by existing shareholders ( up to a 24. 5 % holding ).

A series of medieval tunnels beneath the city, linked and greatly expanded by the New Zealand Tunnelling Company, became a decisive factor in the British forces holding the city.

Although the provisions of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 gave East Coast holding companies an incentive to sell off their Nebraska subsidiaries, bankers were unwilling to finance their sale to the Loup District because of its debts from the canal project.

The new corporation was a holding company for a number of smaller entities such as the original Sperry Gyroscope, Ford Instrument Company, Intercontinental Aviation, Inc., and others.

At the close of 1943 the holding company of El Paso Electric sold its subsidiary the El Paso Electric Railway Company and its Mexican counterpart to one of National City Lines ' subsidiaries.

Beginning in 2006, Southwest Virginia Community College began holding classes in downtown Pocahontas in the historic Pocahontas Fuel Company office.

Walsworth Publishing Company, established in 1937 and owned by Marceline's Walsworth family, employs hundreds of skilled laborers in its non-union Marceline printing press operation ; the company publishes primarily high school and college yearbooks, while also holding market share in church directories and other large scale job printing operations.

The reservation is a composite holding derived from ( 1 ) land given to the tribe the Seneca tribe, Land donated by the Holland Land Company, and ( 3 ) Trust territory held by the federal government.

The role of project leader was taken over by Stroud District Council, and a new body, the Stroud Valleys Canal Company, was created in March 2009 to act as a holding company for the assets of the waterway, with a responsibiliry to manage and maintain it once it is reopened.

In 2007, Victor Company of Japan Ltd confirmed a strategic capital alliance with Kenwood and SPARKX Investment, resulting in Matsushita's holding being reduced to approximately 37 %.

In 1905 the companies merged to become the Nestlé and Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company, retaining that name until 1947 when the name Nestlé Alimentana SA was taken as a result of the acquisition of Fabrique de Produits Maggi SA ( founded 1884 ) and its holding company Alimentana SA of Kempttal, Switzerland.

Other subsidiaries of that Delaware-chartered holding company were E. F. Hutton Trust Company ( now " Smith Barney Corporate Trust Company " and owned by Citigroup ), E. F. Hutton Life Insurance Company, and E. F. Hutton Bank.

Other subsidiaries of that Delaware-chartered holding company were E. F. Hutton Trust Company, E. F. Hutton Life Insurance Company, and E. F. Hutton Bank.

After many of Comptroller Saxon ’ s decisions granting national banks greater powers had been challenged, commercial banking firms had been able to expand their non-securities activities through the “ one bank holding company .” Because the Bank Holding Company Act only limited nonbanking activities of companies that owned two or more commercial banks, “ one bank holding companies ” could own interests in any type of company other than securities firms covered by Glass-Steagall Section 20.

The OCC ’ s action relied on a “ loophole ” in the Bank Holding Company Act ( BHCA ) that meant a company only became a “ bank holding company ” supervised by the Federal Reserve Board if it owned a “ bank ” that made “ commercial loans ”( i. e., loans to businesses ) and provided “ demand deposits ” ( i. e., checking accounts ).

Peterson's holding company was called Foodmaker Company, which by 1966 was known as Foodmaker, Inc. All Jack in the Box locations at this time were company-owned ; location sites, food preparation, quality control and the hiring and training of on-site managers and staff in each location was subject to rigorous screening processes and strict performance standards.

The Southern Pacific Company was organized in 1884 as a holding company for the Central Pacific-Southern Pacific system.

When the Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company reached its 125th year as a going industrial concern during 1958, it became an almost unique institution in the mechanical world.

The Manchester Depot Sewer Company issued 214 shares of stock at $10 each for construction of a sewer in that locality, and assessments were made for its maintenance.

By 1883 the `` Battenkill Telegraph Company '' was in existence and Alvin Pettibone was its president.

In 1918 the New England Telephone Company began erecting a building to house its operations on the corner of U. S. Rte. 7 and what is now Memorial Avenue at Manchester Center.

Marsden was manager of the company for ten years and manager of its successor company, the Colonial Light and Power Company, for one year.

At about the time the Marsden enterprise was getting under way, the Vail Light and Lumber Company started construction of a chair stock factory on the site of the present Bennington Co-operative Creamery, intending to use its surplus power for generating electricity.

Since the land he desired lay within the great northern empire of the Hudson's Bay Company, he purchased great blocks of the Comany's stock with the view to controlling its policies.

For many years the Northwest Company had its southern headquarters at Prairie Du Chien on the Mississippi River, some 300 miles southeast of present-day St. Paul, Minnesota.

For its part the Hudson's Bay Company was troubled by the approach of American settlement.

Business Week ( Aug. 9, 1961 ) reports that the United Aircraft Company, against which the International Association of Machinists had undertaken a strike, decided to keep its plants operating.

Steel Company of Wales, a British steelmaker, wants to bring in Virginia coal, cut down on its takings of Welsh coal in order to be able to compete more effectively -- especially in foreign markets.

A brisk, satirical spoof of contemporary American mores entitled `` An American Journey '' was given its first New York performance at Hunter College Playhouse last night by the Helen Tamiris-Daniel Nagrin Dance Company.

The Moiseyev Dance Company dropped in at Madison Square Garden last night for the first of four farewell performances before it brings its long American tour to a close.

The Bayanihan Philippine Dance Company, with music and dances that depict the many facets of Filipino culture, opens its 60-city U.S. tour in San Francisco ( through Sept. 24 ) then, via one-night stands, moves on to Los Angeles ( Sept. 29 thru Oct. 1 ).

In 1810, John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company sent the Astor Expedition that founded Fort Astoria as its primary fur-trading post in the Northwest, and in fact the first permanent U. S. settlement on the Pacific coast.

Although he had left the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, he remained closely connected to its management, namely Thomas A. Scott and J. Edgar Thomson.

John T. Arundel and Company, a British firm using a competing claim to the island by the UK, made the island its headquarters for its guano-digging operations in the Pacific from 1886 to 1891.

It previously was a division of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company ( AT & T ), half-owned through its Western Electric manufacturing subsidiary.

The East India Company and its Governor-General were replaced by a viceroy and the Indian Council, while at Westminster the Board of Control was abolished and its functions assumed by the newly created India Office, under the Secretary of State for India.

* The Boston Beer Company, under its " Samuel Adams " label, brews a seasonal Chocolate Bock, and has been brewing Double Bock since 1988.

General Motors purchased a majority stake in 1925 and changed its name to the Yellow Truck & Coach Manufacturing Company.

The last private bank to issue its own banknotes in England and Wales was Fox, Fowler and Company in 1921.