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During company rule in India, agency houses facilitated the trade of different commodities including textiles, tobacco, and indigo. [4] The East India Company's monopoly over trade within India meant that agency houses played a less significant role during the 17th and 18th centuries. As power started to shift directly to the British Empire in ...
The London Legacy Development Corporation (LLDC) is an organisation established in 2012, replacing the Olympic Park Legacy Company and the planning powers of the Olympic Delivery Authority. It was formed as a mayoral development corporation under the powers of the Localism Act 2011 . [ 2 ]
In 1919, a committee chaired by the Marquess of Crewe determined there existed the need to separate the agency work of the India Office from its other political and administrative roles, and recommended the transfer of all such work to "a High Commissioner for India or some similar Indian Governmental Representative in London."
The British government has chosen India as one of its most influential trade partners because it is one of the "fastest growing economies in the world." [ 17 ] In 2013, Cameron formed the biggest trade delegation by accommodating more than 100 representatives that varied from multinational corporations, medium-to-small-sized corporations, and ...
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries and U.S. giant Walt Disney are discussing a plan to hold next-stage talks about their India media business merger in London next week, two people ...
The London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC) was a quango agency set up by the UK Government in 1981 to regenerate the depressed Docklands area of east London. [1] During its seventeen-year existence, it was responsible for regenerating an area of 22 square kilometres (8.5 sq mi) in the London Boroughs of Newham, Tower Hamlets and Southwark.
The East India Company was established in 1600 as a joint-stock company of English merchants who received, by a series of charters, exclusive rights to English trade with the "Indies", defined as the lands lying between the Cape of Good Hope and the Straits of Magellan; the term "India" had been derived from the name of the Indus River, long important to commerce and civilisation in the region.
London is one of the pre-eminent financial centres of the world and vies with New York City as the most important location for international finance. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Over half of the UK's top 100 listed companies (the FTSE 100 ) and over 100 of Europe's 500 largest companies have their headquarters in central London.