Deli Company (Dutch language: Deli Maatschappij) is a trading and distribution company in the timber, construction product and tobacco industries. It began as large tobacco plantation and production operation established in 1869 by the Dutch in Sumatra.[1][2] It was granted a land concession by the Sultanate of Deli.[3]
The company relied on immigrant coolie labor.[4]Black shank was a problem and was researched on the plantation.[5] Publicly traded on the Amsterdam stock market, it was the first modern company to pay large annual stock dividends.[4]Jacobus Nienhuys founded the company. A few years later he returned to the Netherlands after being indicted for the death of 7 workers[3] and administration of the company was taken over by Jacob Theodoor Cremer who became its largest shareholder.[6] The company's headquarters was constructed in Medan in 1911.
The company diversified into tea, rubber and other industries and acquired other companies over the years. Deli Company's tobacco business was nationalized by Indonesia along with other Dutch enterprises in 1958 under Indonesian president Sukarno.[3] The state-owned Plantation Nusantara Group (PTP) took over the tobacco business but the Deli Company continued operations in other areas and businesses. It is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Universal Corporation.[6] The business was established near the Deli River.[6]
The company was established in Medan, then just a village, but conveniently located at the confluence of the Deli and Babura Rivers.[3] Business grew rapidly.[3] The company gained a commanding position in the area's tobacco trade, running 10 huge estates and eventually controlling exports with a monopoly. It developed railroads including 54 stations and built a field hospital. As the company and Medan grew, the Sultan of Deli (Ma'mun Al Rashid) moved his residence from Labuhan and Medan became the capital of North Sumatra in 1891.[3]
Beside the possessions in Dutch East Indies the Deli Company had a lot of assets[7] in both Amsterdam and Rotterdam to ensure smooth operations, e.g.:
Offices at Herengracht 286, 380 and 586, Amsterdam
^The Emergence of a National Economy: An Economic History of Indonesia, 1800-2000 23 July 2016 at the Wayback Machine by Howard W. Dick pages 95, 103
^. N.V. Deli Maatschappij. Archived from the original on 13 August 2015. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
^ abcdefgBattle to preserve North Sumatra's smoking past 5 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine Peter Janssen 1 April 2015 Nikkei Asian Review
^ abTransforming the Public Sphere: The Dutch National Exhibition of Women’s Labor in 1898 3 May 2016 at the Wayback Machine Maria Grever, Berteke Waaldijk Duke University Press, 2 June 2004 page 136, 152
^Black shank of tobacco in the former Dutch East Indies, caused by Phytophthora nicotianae 28 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine: Original papers by Jacob van Breda de Haan, 1895 and Thung Tjeng Hiang, 1931 & 1938 Jan C. Zadoks Sidestone Press, 15 December 2014 page 163, 164
^ abcDeli Universal History 8 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine Funding Universe
^Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (Cultural Heritage Agency)
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