The Company was originally formed to exploit Uller alone, but the Federation insisted that both planets would have to be Franchised to the same company.
"Uller Uprising"
Henry Beam Piper, John D. Clark and John F. Carr
The idea of an English mission overland to India had grown out of Peter Elkington's Levant Company, Franchised by Queen Elizabeth to exploit her new treaty with the Ottoman Turks, controllers of the caravan trade between India and the Mediterranean.
"The Moghul"
Thomas Hoover