Between 1659 and 1779, nine chartered companies succeeded one another in administering Saint-Louis.

During the 17th century, traders in Stockholm made several failed attempts to establish chartered companies to promote foreign trade.

Could a chartered company like the South Sea truly turn to murder to further its business?

By 1968 the number of chartered companies had doubled to 14.

This is usually a colonizing power, or at least mandated by one, as in the case of colonial chartered companies.

We are a chartered company, and we have an excellent legal department, which keeps us safely inside our charter.

A chartered company is an association formed by investors or shareholders for the purpose of trade, exploration and colonisation.

But chartered companies go back into the medieval period.

"But don't they have a chartered company there?"

In 1777 it was turned over to the government by the chartered company and became a Danish crown colony.