Royal Niger Company

The Royal Niger Company was a mercantile company chartered by the British government in the nineteenth century to trade along the Niger River in West Africa. It was formed in 1879 as the United African Company, renamed the National African Company in 1881, and renamed again as the Royal Niger Company in 1886. In 1929 it became part of the United Africa Company, which came under the control of Unilever during the 1930s and continued as a Unilever subsidiary until it was absorbed into the parent company in 1987. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/