ABSTRACT
The fluent circulation of goods from eastern to western Mediterranean areas facilitated the socio-economic process of globalization within European territories. The trade company of the Roux-Frres is a good example of such a global process. The Roux-Frres was one of the most important trading companies of Mediterranean Europe in the eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries. The founder of the company was Pierre-Honor Roux who was born in 1695 and died in 1774. The Roux-Frres Company's receipts are notable proof of the deals that were made in the Spanish ports by purchasing those raw materials. In 1779 Benito Picardo asked Roux-Frres associates for a banker, who could settle a credit to buy colonial commodities such as cochineal and groceries cacao, chocolate, sugar and coffee. They also preserved a thriving business circuit in the Mediterranean market, especially with the Levantine routes from which they introduced into Europe via Marseille luxury commodities.
