Oldest Companies in the World (1 Viewer)

[bclemms]

I watched one of the oldest buildings (and towns for that matter) in California burn to the ground a few months ago.

Also, the Catholic Church beats all of these by centuries and has enough wealth to buy almost every business listed on that map and could do so without even making a dent in net worth.

 

[Optimus Prime]

21 Oldest Companies In The World (All You Need To Know)

Looking for the Oldest Companies In The World? What are the oldest companies in the world still in operation? Who makes the list?

incorporated.zone

 

[Consigliere]

21 Oldest Companies In The World (All You Need To Know)

Looking for the Oldest Companies In The World? What are the oldest companies in the world still in operation? Who makes the list?

incorporated.zone

The Papacy doesn't count as a company? It has a CEO, bank, real estate, marketing department, collections department, etc. - and quite older than 578.

 

[Optimus Prime]

The Papacy doesn't count as a company? It has a CEO, bank, real estate, marketing department, collections department, etc. - and quite older than 578.

Valid question

I guess most people don't consider churches to be typical businesses. I'll admit that I don't

Does British royalty count as well?

 

[Consigliere]

Does British royalty count as well?

The corporate takeover of 1066 would prevent it from being among the oldest.

 

[SystemShock]

I was just talking about this recently

Growing up in the DC area I’ve been to Mount Vernon, Monticello and the Capitol on field trips and it was interesting and impressive but it’s mind boggling to think in other countries you can see buildings and roads that are over a thousand years old

I would love to see the pyramids one day just to stare at them in awe

Very cool that there is a restaurant celebrating their 1200th anniversary

You can see buildings and structures that are over 1K years old in the U.S. too, but somehow people only acknowledge the structures made by the Europeans who arrived during the 15th century and on.

 

[Optimus Prime]

You can see buildings and structures that are over 1K years old in the U.S. too, but somehow people only acknowledge the structures made by the Europeans who arrived during the 15th century and on.

True enough

 

[GeauxWhoDats]

I am sure Madame Orr's House was established in the mid 1800's.

 

[dtc]

Breweries are making a strong showing.
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The oldest business continuously in operation in Florida as a corporation I believe is the Lewis Bear Company in Pensacola which is a Budweiser distributor. There's a Hardware Store here that's been open for 120 years or more too.

 

[Optimus Prime]

Guess this can go here
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You walk into your local bar and order a beer. Your server brings your order, along with a few snacks to nibble on while sipping your brew: dates and some dried fish.


This was likely the experience for patrons at what might be the world’s oldest-known bar.
Archaeologists recently excavated a site in Iraq dating to around 2700 B.C. in the ancient Sumerian city-state of Lagash that they think could contain the oldest tavern ever discovered.

“We found the remains of a public eatery, the earliest that we are aware of in one of the first cities of southern Mesopotamia,” said Holly Pittman, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and project director of the excavation.


An international team of researchers from Penn and the University of Pisa announced the discovery this month. The site was uncovered in the fall at Tell al Hiba, located in southeastern Iraq, about 150 miles from the modern port city of Basra.


Archaeologists found a seven-room structure featuring an open courtyard with benches and a large open cooking area with a 10-foot-wide mud-brick oven. They also discovered a primitive refrigerator. Known as a “zeer” in Arabic, the device consisted of two bottomless clay jars that used evaporation to help cool perishable items.

In another room, the team discovered a large quantity of conical bowls that held ready-to-eat food and jars that the archaeologists think contained beer.
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We’re trying to find out now through lipid analysis what was in the bowls or the jars,” said Pittman, who is also Near East curator at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. “But it looks like this was kind of a McDonald’s with prepared food for fast service.”……….

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/02/21/worlds-oldest-tavern-lagash-iraq/

 

[Optimus Prime]

Sobrino de Botín has proudly held the coveted Guinness World Record as the world's oldest restaurant since 1987.

Exactly three hundred years after it opened its doors in the heart of Spain’s capital, Botín welcomes droves of daily visitors hungry for Castilian fare with a side of history.

But away from the well-trodden tourist paths, a rustic tavern named Casa Pedro makes a bold claim.

Its owners claim the establishment on the outskirts of Madrid endured not just the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s and the Napoleonic invasion in the early 1800s, but even the War of Spanish Succession at the start of the 18th century — a lineage that would make Casa Pedro older than Botín and a strong contender for the title.

“It’s really frustrating when you say, ‘Yes, we’ve been around since 1702,’ but ... you can’t prove it,” said manager and eighth-generation proprietor Irene Guiñales.

“If you look at the restaurant’s logo, it says ‘Casa Pedro, since 1702,’ so we said, ‘Damn it, let’s try to prove it.’”

Guiñales, 51, remembers her grandfather swearing by Casa Pedro’s age, but she was aware that decades-old hearsay from a proud old-timer wouldn't be enough to prove it.

Her family hired a historian and has so far turned up documents dating the restaurant's operations to at least 1750.

That puts them within striking distance of Botín’s record………..

World’s oldest restaurant faces a challenge from another tavern

Sobrino de Botín in Madrid has held the coveted Guinness World Record as the world's oldest restaurant since 1987

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Paul]

Fascinating historical information.

 

[Grumpy Old Manatee]

Mildly concerned. What happened to 3?