User:Dr Gangrene/Columeta

Columeta stands for Comptoir métallurgique luxembourgeois. It was a trading association formed by ARBED and Terres Rouges to sell their products from 1920 to 1976. In 1976 it was renamed TradeARBED.

It had branches in the following cities: Until December 1918, ARBED had sold all its products on the German market. The denunciation of the Zollverein after the war put an end to this. Although negotiations were ongoing with the French and Belgian governments for a commercial alliance, whatever their outcome, those two markets were not sufficient to take all of ARBED's exports. Therefore, new markets had to be found. Émile Mayrisch had the idea of forming a joint trading body with Terres Rouges.
 * Brussels
 * Cologne
 * Vienna
 * Basel
 * Paris
 * London
 * Rotterdam
 * Madrid
 * Stockholm
 * Christiania
 * Copenhagen
 * Rio de Janeiro
 * Buenos Aires
 * Shanghai
 * Tokyo