Interesting, but there seems to be a mistake. The one in Austria is older than the one in Germany.
Mints and postal services should not count?
Not aure about the validity of other countries, but the Brand Brewery is much younger than they advertise they are. There’s absolutely 0 proof they are the oldest company of the country.
my country is the only one without data 😕
I’d like to see the same but private companies only?
any source?
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Bochnia mine in Poland closed in 1990. Still super long operation tho.
It’s now open as a tourist attraction and sanatorium. Does such an industry change counts as still operational?
I see banks, postal services and salt mines.
And we in Belgium have a brewery.
Typical…..
At least Luxembourg and Netherlands have breweries as well, like good Beneluxers. United by beer!
The oldest company is a bathing company. Nice
Postal services in Finland were established in 1638, and Posti Group Oyj considers it to be its founding year. That makes it older than Fiskars. Granted, it wasn’t a company until 20th century, but neither were Correios de Portugal and Posten Norge.
Stora Enso Oyj was formed when Swedish Stora and Finnish Enso merged. Stora was founded in 1288.
Why is there no russian oldest company?
In Montenegro it should be “Obod printing house”, as “Stamparija Crnojevica” it was founded in 1494
Hey, your map is contradicting itself.
It clearly and boldly states that the „Staffelter Hof Winery“ is the oldest company in Europe, first established to exist in 862 AD. However, right next to it it claims the „St. Peter Stifts Kulinarium“ from Austria is already established to exist in 803 AD, which would make it the oldest in Europe.
This is also in accordance with other sources that list the St. Peter Stiftskulinarium as 6th oldest company in the world, with exactly the same date of founding.
Why does the key have an entire section with no data points? 500-749. But earliest date is 803…
For Turkey it should be Hacı Bekir Lokumları -a turkish delight/candy maker founded in 1777.
I doubt a Hammam in 1500s could be regarded as a company
Sadly the oldest breweries of the Netherlands and Belgium are part of Heineken, which is very actively doing everything they can to invest more in Russia
Sean’s Bar in Ireland is likely not even a century old
They were doing some renovations a while back and unearthed some parts of an old structure deep in the earth underneath them which archeologists say is proof of a historic tavern, it’s just coincidence that’s it’s currently the site of a pub as well
The only Irish tradition which this shows is our national ability to bullshit tourists
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Interesting, but there seems to be a mistake. The one in Austria is older than the one in Germany.
Mints and postal services should not count?
Not aure about the validity of other countries, but the Brand Brewery is much younger than they advertise they are. There’s absolutely 0 proof they are the oldest company of the country.
my country is the only one without data 😕
I’d like to see the same but private companies only?
any source?
Czechia number 1 Beer empire 💪💪🍺💪🍻🍺💪😎❤️🔥🍻❤️🥱🍻🍻🥵🍺
Bochnia mine in Poland closed in 1990. Still super long operation tho.
It’s now open as a tourist attraction and sanatorium. Does such an industry change counts as still operational?
I see banks, postal services and salt mines.
And we in Belgium have a brewery.
Typical…..
At least Luxembourg and Netherlands have breweries as well, like good Beneluxers. United by beer!
The oldest company is a bathing company. Nice
Postal services in Finland were established in 1638, and Posti Group Oyj considers it to be its founding year. That makes it older than Fiskars. Granted, it wasn’t a company until 20th century, but neither were Correios de Portugal and Posten Norge.
Stora Enso Oyj was formed when Swedish Stora and Finnish Enso merged. Stora was founded in 1288.
Why is there no russian oldest company?
In Montenegro it should be “Obod printing house”, as “Stamparija Crnojevica” it was founded in 1494
Hey, your map is contradicting itself.
It clearly and boldly states that the „Staffelter Hof Winery“ is the oldest company in Europe, first established to exist in 862 AD. However, right next to it it claims the „St. Peter Stifts Kulinarium“ from Austria is already established to exist in 803 AD, which would make it the oldest in Europe.
This is also in accordance with other sources that list the St. Peter Stiftskulinarium as 6th oldest company in the world, with exactly the same date of founding.
Here in German:
https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/1264997/umfrage/aelteste-unternehmen/
Here in English:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies
Please revise your map to show accurate data.
Sean is an absolute legend.
Why does the key have an entire section with no data points? 500-749. But earliest date is 803…
For Turkey it should be Hacı Bekir Lokumları -a turkish delight/candy maker founded in 1777.
I doubt a Hammam in 1500s could be regarded as a company
Sadly the oldest breweries of the Netherlands and Belgium are part of Heineken, which is very actively doing everything they can to invest more in Russia
For Hungary it should be [Alföldi nyomda (printing house) 1561](http://www.anyrt.hu/en/history/)
Sean’s Bar in Ireland is likely not even a century old
They were doing some renovations a while back and unearthed some parts of an old structure deep in the earth underneath them which archeologists say is proof of a historic tavern, it’s just coincidence that’s it’s currently the site of a pub as well
The only Irish tradition which this shows is our national ability to bullshit tourists
Wait a second! I’ve seen this map before.
https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/f3lbtk/the_oldest_company_in_each_country_in_europe/
It’s even got the same mistake as the one in from three years ago, except the bottom of the image with a URL to the sources has been chopped off.
Pivovar Broumov is like 15 minutes by car away from my house. I also go to one of the oldest gymnasiums in Czechia. Also in Broumov 🙂