Instead, in September 1772 financial difficulties forced the British trading firm to cut its dividends.
Masulipatam was the first British trading settlement (1611) on the Bay of Bengal.
The dispute arose as a result of the seizure by the Spaniards in 1789 of four British trading vessels owned by Captain John Meares and his associates.
To the south was the Atlantic coast, dotted with Dutch and British trading forts; to the north was the expanding Asante empire.
Although Dr. McLoughlin was considered a capable manager, his kindness to American pioneers eventually cost him favor with the British trading company, and he was forced to retire.
The East India Company, a British trading company, begins to sell opium to British traders, who then ship it to China.
The claim to sovereignty goes back to 1878, when a Sultan of Sulu leased the territory, then known as North Borneo, to a British trading company.
The British trading company Inchcape P.L.C. said yesterday that it had sold its Russian bottling unit to the Coca-Cola Company for $87 million.
An Onitsha obi ("king") negotiated in 1857 with William Balfour Baikie, a British trader, for the establishment of a British trading post in the town.
David Harding, the billionaire founder and CEO of another British trading company, Winton Capital Management, is generally skeptical of hype over machine learning and AI.
Built by the British trading family of the same name, the building was later used by Mao Zedong during his visits to Shanghai.
