World's oldest companies

[ksmith]

Gacked from lnhammer.

I can't wrap my mind around the fact that there are companies that are over 1400 years old.

Comments

[pbray.livejournal.com]

It warms my heart to see how many breweries are on the list :-)

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

Not to mention that the oldest thing in Germany is a brewery. ;>

[phantomminuet.livejournal.com]

That's fascinating. The number of old breweries is perhaps not so surprising, but the number of confectionaries fascinates me.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

And now I want to go back and reread Tim Powers The Drawing of the Dark, where a really old brewery was the key to saving the world.

[madmoravian.livejournal.com]

The U Flecku Brewery is one of the oldest in the Czech Republic. We ate at the U Flecku Pub when were were in country a few years ago.

[e-moon60.livejournal.com]

Could not find the explanation for some listings in red and others in blue in the later lists...

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I couldn't find what the colors meant, either.

[larryhammer]

Blue means Wikipedia has an article, red means no one's gotten around to creating it yet.

---L.