The United East India Company or Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC)
The United East India Company or the United East Indian Company, also known as the United East Indies Company ( Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie ; or Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie in modern spelling; VOC), referred to by the British as the Dutch East India Company, or the Dutch East Indies Company. It was established as a chartered company in 1602, when the Dutch government granted it a 21-year monopoly on the Dutch spice trade. A pioneering early model of the multinational. In the early 1600s, the VOC became the first company in history to issue bonds and shares of sock to the general public. In other words, the VOC was the world's first formally listed public company, namely, it was the first corporation to be ever actually listed on an official (formal) stock exchange. In the early modern period...