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". Trading companies Afghan-German Trading Company African & Eastern Trade Corporation Augustine Heard & Co. Austrian East India Company Barbary Company Bergen Greenland Company Black Sea Trade Company (Trade Company Poland) Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation Compagnie de Chine Compagnie de Saint-Christophe Compagnie des Îles de l'Amérique Compagnie du Nord Company of the Moluccas Company of Habitants Company of One Hundred Associates Company of Scotland Comprador Courteen association Danish East India Company Danish West India Company David Sassoon & Co. Dent & Co. Dieppe Company Dodwell & Co. Dutch East India Company Dutch West India Company E.D. Sassoon & Co. British East India Company French East India Company French West India Company General Trade Company Gibb, Livingston & Co. Grand Anadolu İnternational Commodity Trading House Guinea Company (London) Guinea Company of Scotland Guipuzcoan Company of Caracas Hudson's Bay Company Hutchison Whampoa Indonesia Trading Company Jardine Matheson Kaptallah King George's Sound Company Kunst and Albers Lamson & Hubbard Trading Company Levant Company Li & Fung London and Bristol Company London Company Middelburgsche Commercie Compagnie Mississippi Company MMTC Ltd Muscovy Company, English trading company chartered in 1555 as the first major chartered joint stock company North West Company Northern Traders Company Northwest Cameroon Company Olyphant & Co. Portuguese East India Company Royal African Company Royal Greenland Trading Department Royal Philippine Company Samuel Samuel & Co Serapis Global Company Shewan, Tomes & Co. Society of Berbice Society of Suriname Somers Isles Company South Cameroon Company Swedish East India Company Swedish South Company Swedish West India Company Virginia Company By country Philippines Amaggi Group Japan Hartz Mountain Corporation Inabata & Co., Ltd. Itochu JEM Industries Corp Marubeni Mitsubishi Corporation Mitsui & Co. Sogo shosha Sojitz Corporation Sumitomo Corporation Toyota Tsusho Türkiye