East India Company was the name of several historical European companies chartered with the monopoly of trading with Asia; more specifically with India.

• British East India Company, founded in 1600
• Danish East India Company, founded in 1616
• Dutch East India Company, founded in 1602
• French East India Company, founded in 1664
• Swedish East India Company, founded in 1731
• Portuguese East India Company, founded in 1628

The British East India Company, sometimes referred to as John Company, was the first joint-stock company (the Dutch East India Company was the first to issue public stock). ... The Danish East India Company (in Danish Dansk Ostindisk Kompagni) was founded in 1616, following a privilege of the Danish king Christian IV. It was focused on trade with India and had its base in Tranquebar. ... This article is about the trading company. ... French and other European settlements in India. ... The East Indiaman Götheborg in Oslo, for the centenary of the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden on 10 June 2005 The Swedish East India Company (Swedish: Svenska Ostindiska Companiet or SOIC) was founded in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1731 for the purpose of conducting trade with the...

See also

• East India (disambiguation)
• West India Company
• East India Company (Game)

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