1400 year old business closes

[nokhor]

it boggles my mind that a company could last this long. this company was older than islam for instance.

http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/apr2007/sb20070416_589621.htm?chan=rss_topStories_ssi_5

[The Stranger]

heheh, funny :P

[Tamur]

Few industries could be less flighty than Buddhist temple construction.

lol!

[edyzmedieval]

Too bad. :no:

[Martok]

It is a little sad that they finally closed down, but then I doubt any other single business on the planet can claim to have lasted as long. Gotta give 'em credit where credit's due! :yes:

[Watchman]

Be pretty difficult to best that record, certainly. Not that there weren't some seriously old firms still around though. Take Beretta (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beretta) for one. And while it's not a "business" per ce, the custodianship of the keys to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Holy_Sepulchre#Status_quo) has run in two local Muslim families since Saladin's recapture of the city in 1192...

[Furious Mental]

I had some beer from what was supposedly the oldest continuously operating brewery in the world (since 1040 apparently) the other day. It was quite nice.

[Lorenzo_H]

Here is a list of the worlds oldest companies:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies

[Shahed]

Excellent and very informative. Thanks for sharing, both.

[The Wizard]

Really interesting. Thanks for sharing, a pity it got lost. But hey, that's the free market, and that's investing in something proven over fifty years earlier to be a bubble.