1400 year old business closes

**nokhor** · 05-04-2007, 13:18

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

http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz...pStories_ssi_5

**The Stranger** · 05-04-2007, 13:41

heheh, funny :P

**Tamur** · 05-04-2007, 18:31

Few industries could be less flighty than Buddhist temple construction.

lol!

**edyzmedieval** · 05-04-2007, 19:02

Too bad.

**Martok** · 05-04-2007, 23:44

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!

**Watchman** · 05-05-2007, 00:11

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

**Furious Mental** · 05-05-2007, 19:44

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** · 05-05-2007, 20:55

Here is a list of the worlds oldest companies:

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

**Shahed** · 05-06-2007, 00:44

Excellent and very informative. Thanks for sharing, both.

**The Wizard** · 05-06-2007, 03:05

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.