Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In more recent history, the earliest joint-stock company recognized in England was the Company of Merchant Adventurers to New Lands, founded in 1551 with 240 shareholders. It became the Muscovy Company , which had a monopoly on trade between Russia and England , when royal charter was granted in 1555.
Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company, 118 U.S. 394 (1886) M Dodd, 'American Business Association Law a Hundred Years Ago and Today', in 3 Law: A Century of Progress: 1835-1935 (Reppy 1937) 254, 289
The Howard firm established itself as a leading American manufacturer of luxury watches from 1858 into the 1890s. On March 24, 1861 the clock and watch businesses were combined into one joint stock corporation, the Howard Clock & Watch Company, which failed in 1863.
Early toll roads were constructed and owned by joint-stock companies that sold stock to raise construction capital like Pennsylvania's 1795 Lancaster Turnpike Company. In 1808, Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin 's Report on the Subject of Public Roads and Canals suggested that the federal government should fund the construction of ...
1873 renamed to The Claflin Company. 1818 Breck's: Boston, Massachusetts (found.) Flowers [108] Acquired by Gardens Alive! 1818 Libbey Incorporated: Toledo, Ohio: Glassware Formerly Libbey Glass Company and New England Glass Company 1818 Brooks Brothers: New York City: The oldest apparel/clothing brand in continuous operation in the United ...
Control over a corporate colony was granted to a joint-stock company, such as the Virginia Company. Virginia, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island were founded as corporate colonies. New England's corporate colonies were virtually independent of royal authority and operated as republics where property owners elected the governor and ...
Apple Inc. is a public, joint-stock company registered with the SEC. As of December 31, 2018, it has 4,715,280,000 outstanding shares. These are mainly held by institutional investors and funds. [195] [196] [197] The top 16 institutional shareholders (and eight related, notable funds with over 25 million shares) [196] are: [195]
The 'Dorchester Company' of Adventurers was a Joint Stock Company established in 1623 in England to enable the English colonisation of North America [1] It was based in Dorchester, Dorset, near the English Channel, and was founded at the instigation of the puritan Anglican churchman, John White. [2]