The Brabant Company (Dutch - ), also known as the New Company (''Nieuwe Compagnie''), was a

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of the

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(VOC). The Brabantsche Company was set up in 1599, by Jacques de Velaer,

Isaac le Maire Isaac Le Maire (c. 1558 in Antwerp – September 20, 1624 in Egmond aan den Hoef) was a Dutch entrepreneur, investor, and a sizeable shareholder of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). He is best known for his constant strife with the VOC, ...

, Hans Hunger,

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and

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. In 1600, the Brabantsche Company merged with the Compagnie van Verre to form the Vereenigde Compagnie van Amsterdam. Finally this company and other companies in

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, West Friesland and

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merged into the VOC in 1602.

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