He moved to Bombay around 1857 to establish a trading house.

For years, the company has been something of a trading house, getting millions in loans from brokers.

The trading houses ran up a debt of about $64 million.

I've managed to take one of their trading houses under my protection.

"Myryan has said that you are head of a trading house."

"The river is too narrow to carry ships," one executive of a major trading house said.

Most of the major trading houses expanded during his reign.

"There are but a handful of trading houses, and none so large headed by a woman."

Three years later, Hamilton's mother died, and the boy became a clerk in a trading house.

"Therefore I am offering their one-third interest to your trading house."