The oldest company in the world

Japanese construction company Kongō Gumi Co., Ltd was founded already in the year 578 (6th century!). In those days it bearded built palaces for the Japanese rulers and nobility, during the Second World beating coffins. Because of a failed strategy and the growth of debt in 2006 it was acquired by a competitor.



Hōshi, another Japanese company, engaged in hotel business with 718 years. Recently, also ceased to exist. One of its hotels (formerly known as "inns") was under the generic control for 46 generations!



Restaurant and wine cellar Stiftskeller St. Peter, in the territory of the Abbey of St. Peter (Vienna), works with 803 years. The restaurant still exists today, and before his clients were many famous personages, such as Christopher Columbus, as in the novel by Goethe Mephistopheles and Faust met right there.



Brewery Weihenstephan Brewery of Bavaria brews its products in 1040. It works in our days.



Another brewery - Affligem Abbey brewery of Belgium, works with 1074, although it lost its independence (bought by Heineken).

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