The top 6 oldest companies in the world are all Japanese. A brash European upstart, namely an Austrian restaurant founded in 803, sneaks in at #7. https://en.

The top 6 oldest companies in the world are all Japanese. A brash European upstart, namely an Austrian restaurant founded in 803, sneaks in at #7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies Note that all lists of this kind have to be taken with a fistful of salt though, since usually the claims are along the lines of "this ancient document written in the year X mentions that there's an inn next to the hot spring; there is still an inn next to the hot spring; therefore this inn has been operating here since X".