Company

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The company (also French Compagnie and Portuguese Companhia , in northern Germany Mascopei ) used to refer to a socially or cooperatively managed company in the commercial language .

They emerged in particular with the upswing of the Portuguese colonial empire in the 15th century.

In the 17th to 19th centuries , companies such as the Companhia Geral do Comércio do Brasil , the Dutch East India Company and the British East India Company flourished. In the narrower sense, one speaks here of trading companies in the area of long-distance trade .

The terms company and company are to be differentiated in this meaning from the addition company (mostly abbreviated as Co. or Cie. ) In companies .

Individual evidence

  1. Pierer's Universal-Lexikon, Volume 10. Altenburg 1860, p. 941
  2. António Henrique de Oliveira Marques : History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 385). Translated from the Portuguese by Michael von Killisch-Horn. Kröner, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-520-38501-5 , p. 175.