FLAG CHALLENGE VOTING THREAD: Non-government Company Flag

Which flag do you like best?

  • Entry Number One -

    Votes: 13 50.0%
  • Entry Number Two -

    Votes: 6 23.1%
  • Entry Number Three -

    Votes: 7 26.9%

  • Total voters
    26
  • Poll closed .
THE CHALLENGE:

Design a flag for an ATL shipping company or other corporation, established after 1763, that is not government owned or operated (i.e. a private sector commercial enterprise). When presenting your entry, indicate the:
-Name of the company/corporation flying the flag
-Year it was established (and, if applicable, the year it ceased to exist)
-Industry the company/corporation is associated with
-Owner(s) of the company/corporation
-Location of its main headquarters
-Years during which this particular flag was used


THE ENTRIES:

Number One Ü

Name of Company: Bulsara Group

Type: Private

Industry: Conglomerate

Founder: Farzan Bulsara

Established: 1838, Agra (Indian Empire)

Headquarters: 1838, Agra (United States of India)

Owners:
- 51% owned by Bulsara Sons and Daughters Trust Company
- 11% owned by Hindustan Corporation
- 10% owned by Zhao Company
- 8% owned by United Arab States Investment Group
- 7% owned by Royal Daimler-Siemens Corporation
- 13% owned by others


Main Subsidiaries:
- Bulsara International (formerly Bulsara Trading Company)
- Bulsara Maritime (formerly Imperial Bulsara Shipping Lines)
- Bulsara Aerospace (formerly Bulsara Airvessels)
- Bulsara Technologies
- Bulsara Energy (formerly Bulsara Oil Company and Bulsara Coal Company)
- Bulsara Motors (formerly Bulsara Bicycle Company and Bulsara Wagon Company)
- Bulsara Food (formerly Bulsara Tea Company and Bulsara Beverages Company)
- Bulsara Communications (formerly Bulsara Broadcasting, Bulsara Radio and Bulsara Interweb)
- Bulsara Heavy Industries
- Bulsara Electronics
- Bulsara Financial
- Bulsara Medical
- Bulsara Miltary
- Bulsara Chemicals
- Bulsara Steel
- Bulsara Bank
- Bulsara Plastics
- Bulsara Space
- Bulsara Healthcare
- Bulsara Media

1941-1985: This particular flag was used for Bulsara Maritime. It has the Bulsara logo in the middle (stylized Arabic letter b) and the colour associated with Bulsara: Cadetblue.

1941-1985: This particular flag was used for Bulsara Maritime. It has the Bulsara logo in the middle (stylized Arabic letter b) and the colour associated with Bulsara: Cadetblue.

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Number Two Ü

1790 : La pérousse's ship "La Boussole" came back to France after five years of travels around the world. Two years earlier, unlike OTL, only two of his ships, "l'Astrolabe" and "de Langle" were lost in the Solomon Islands.

Upon his arrival in Breat, he was welcomed gloriously and word of the expedition's travels in the pacific islands, Australia, Brasil and Japan echoed among the population.

Rapidly understanding the new political situation in France, La pérousse skillfully used his rising fame among seamen and interested investors to make him unavoidable for the newcoming political powers. Hence the well know citation "La république a besoin de marins" ("The Republic need sailors")

He thus established the "Compagnie des Indes Australes" in Brest. That same year he chose for his blue-ocean flag the compass emblem in reference to the only surviving ship of the expedition "La Boussole".

The company easily gained investors and was pretty prosperous in the first years, but suffered heavily from the Terreur, which made its founder eventually flee France, before the final Napoleonian integration within the Empire.

-Name : Compagnie des Indes Australes
-1790-1800
-Industry : Trade with east Asia and Pacific
-Owner : Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La pérousse (later Jean-François Galaup)
-Headquarters : Brest

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Number three Ü

Companies flying the flag: Trans-Oceanic Cable Company (established 1884*) and Trans-Pacific Cable Company (established 1898*), both subsidiaries of Allied Telegraphy Corporation*

*= Bought out by Global Tele-Communications Corporation in 1935

Industry: Oceanic telegraphy

Owners: Charles Matchett (1884-1919); Chester Arthur (1884-1891); Thomas Cranston, Jr. (1884-1913) and William Matchett (1919-1933)

Headquarters: New York City, New York, U.S.A.

Flag flown: 1898-1933

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