Deli Company
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
The company diversified into tea, rubber and other industries and acquired other companies over the years. Deli Company's tobacco business was
History
The company was established in Medan, then just a village, but conveniently located at the confluence of the
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
- warehouse Het Veem, Amsterdam
- warehouses Medan, Bindjeij and Laboean
- Warehouse Wijnhaven, Rotterdam
Cigar smoking declined in the 1920s and the industry was hit hard by the Great Depression a decade later.[3]
Gallery
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Fieldworkers with an ox cart and steam plow
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Deli Company experimental station in Medan (1919)
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Headquarters in Medan circa 1925
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Director's house at the experimental station (1927)
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Chinese laborers, photo by Kristen Feilberg
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Workers
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Administrator Nieuwenhuis
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H. Ingerman, principal administrator from 1897 to 1901 at the Deli Company
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Portrait of the administrator Van Tijen, who served from 1911-1916, with his spouse
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Portrait of a "hoofdschrijver", head clerk, with his wife circa 1900
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Employees in Medan (1921)
See also
- Deli Railway
- Deli Sultanate
- Deli Serdang Regency
References
- ^ The Emergence of a National Economy: An Economic History of Indonesia, 1800-2000 Archived 23 July 2016 at the Wayback Machine by Howard W. Dick pages 95, 103
- ^ "History". N.V. Deli Maatschappij. Archived from the original on 13 August 2015. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
- ^ a b c d e f g Battle to preserve North Sumatra's smoking past Archived 5 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine Peter Janssen 1 April 2015 Nikkei Asian Review
- ^ a b Transforming the Public Sphere: The Dutch National Exhibition of Women’s Labor in 1898 Archived 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 Archived 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
- ^ a b c Deli Universal History Archived 8 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine Funding Universe
- ^ Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (Cultural Heritage Agency)