FounderDuels

Royal African Company vs South Cameroon Company

Side by side, from the public record each company was imported from. Where a figure is missing it is because no source we hold states it — not because it is zero.

Royal African Company is the older of the two, founded in 1660 — 238 years before South Cameroon Company.

Founded
1660
1898
Status
Closed 1752
Active
Headquarters
Not recorded
Hamburg, Cameroon
Industry
international trade
international trade
Founders
Not recorded
Adolph Woermann, Julius Scharlach
Legal form
Not recorded
joint-stock company

Facts on both companies come from the public records named on Royal African Company and South Cameroon Company.