![]() a company of merchants who buy and sell goods produced by other people) or sometimes a shipping company. The company has been often labelled a trading company (i.e. ![]() In addition, the company traded with Indianised Southeast Asian countries when the Dutch government granted it a 21-year monopoly on the Dutch spice trade. It was established on March 20, 1602, as a chartered company to trade with Mughal India in the early modern period, from which 50% of textiles and 80% of silks were imported, chiefly from its most developed region known as Bengal Subah. It is believed to be the largest company to ever have existed in recorded history. The Dutch East India Company, officially the United East India Company ( Dutch: Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie VOC), was a multinational corporation founded by a government-directed consolidation of several rival Dutch trading companies ( voorcompagnieën) in the early 17th century. Replica of the VOC ship Duyfken under sail
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