Alaska Commercial Company (known as the Southern Commercial Company from 1901 to 1992) acquired the assets of the Russian-American Company in 1867; then in 1887, an ACC subsidiary was formed to breed blue foxes on Chirikof.
From 1901 to 1992, it was known as the Northern Commercial Company (NCC). In that year, because of increasing competition in the sealskin trade, the Alaska Commercial Company merged with the International Mercantile Marine Company and Alaska Goldfields, Ltd., to form two new companies, the Northern Navigation Company and the Northern Commercial Company. 
