The VOC: A global enterprise
In Dutch history, the Dutch East India Company stands for daring, entrepreneurial spirit, creativity and wealth. But is this correct? How do people in Indonesia and the Netherlands view the role of Jan Pieterszoon Coen, the great man behind the VOC? He establishes a monopoly on the spice trade, sparing nothing and no one. The VOC's financial success took some time to materialise. Substantial profits only came 30 years after the issue of the first shares in 1602. With investor/historian Menno Witteveen, wayang player Subroto and nutmeg planter Pongky van den Broecke, among others.
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17 local managers selected from the 6 V.O.C. chambers of Amsterdam (8), Zeeland (4), Enkhuizen(1), Hoorn (1), Rotterdam (1), and Delft (1). Additionally there was 1 rotating member from the non-Amsterdam chambers.
