The Adventure of the Dutch Companies

This study presents, in a positivist manner, the evolution in the Lower Danube area of two of the most important grain export companies in the world, by highlighting the changes of the Danube grain market under the impact of the two totalitarian trends and that of World War II. It is in this competitive environment that the Dutch companies Bunge and Nidera also manifest their presence. This paper is based on unedited sources preserved at Brila County Service of the National Archives of Romania, as well as on news and articles from the Romanian press of the 1930s.