The Société Anversoise ( en, Company of Antwerp) was a

concession Concession may refer to: General * Concession (contract) (sometimes called a concession agreement), a contractual right to carry on a certain kind of business or activity in an area, such as to explore or develop its natural resources or to opera ...

company of the

Congo Free State ''(Work and Progress) , national_anthem = Vers l'avenir , capital = Vivi Boma , currency = Congo Free State franc , religion = Catholicism (''de facto'') , leader1 = Leopo ...

,. headquartered in

Antwerp Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504,

. It was, with the

Lulonga Company The Lulonga Company was a concession (territory), concession company of the Congo Free State.. It was, with the Société Anversoise and the Abir Congo Company, one of the main producers of rubber in the Free State.. The company's rubber producti ...

and the

Abir Congo Company The Abir Congo Company (founded as the Anglo-Belgian India Rubber Company and later known as the Compagnie du Congo Belge) was a company that exploited natural rubber in the Congo Free State, the private property of King Leopold II of Belgi ...

, one of the main producers of rubber in the Free State.. Alongside Abir and the Lulonga Company the Société Anversoise handed back control of the concession to the Congo Free State in 1906. The Société Anversoise merged with Abir in 1911 to form the Compagnie du Congo Belge with a focus of the management of rubber plantations instead of the harvesting of naturally occurring rubber.. The Société Anversoise was quoted on the Antwerp Stock Exchange from 27 July 1898.

References

Bibliography

* * * {{CongoConcessions Congo Free State Companies based in Antwerp 1892 establishments in Belgium

See also

References

Bibliography