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If you didn't care about the "still in business" part—implying the same line of business—Stora Enso of Finland would date back to 1288: https://en.wikipedia.org
by tricolon 7y ago
If you didn't care about the "still in business" part—implying the same line of business—Stora Enso of Finland would date back to 1288: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stora_Enso https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stora_Enso
- ptr 7y agoStora Enso is actually a merger of two companies; Swedish Stora and Finnish Enso. It’s Stora that was founded in 1288 with the copper mine in Falun (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Mine https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun_Mine), which produced 2/3 of Europe’s copper needs at one point in time. It was also the world’s first stock company apparently, and it’s still in business.
- squiggleblaz 7y ago(Being a merger does not exclude a company according to the standards of the map. For instance, Australia Post was at one stage a government department, formed by merging departments from several other governments. It's only by using this extremely contrived definition of "oldest company still in business" that they can reach 1809.)