Any reason I'm not getting the extra trader from the Trade company?

[byebytoad]

I've a trade company in South Africa and I'm controlling 71% of the trade.
I thought that would grant me one extra merchant but I'm not getting one.

On the wiki I see no other requirements. Any idea?
I must specify that I have not expansion or exploration idea, but again they don't seem to be requirements afaik.

 

[Dominion]

Your trade company has to control the trade, not you.

Check the subject ledger. Their merchant symbol will be grayed out. Hover over it for a tooltip telling you how much they control.

 

[Kergan]

There was a bug in 1.24 (and 1.23?) where you'd only get the merchant if you control the downstream TCs as well. It got fixed in 1.24.1.

 

[Horn and Ivory]

Also, the trivial but necessary: have you waited for a couple of month ticks?

 

[byebytoad]

Also, the trivial but necessary: have you waited for a couple of month ticks?

actually no. I guess that must be it.