List of oldest companies: Before 1300

Re:List of oldest companies: Before 1300 by rurban on Friday January 19, 2018 @01:52PM (#16188672)

This list looks very suspicious when the largest company ever, the VOC founded 1602 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company founded is not listed there. Apparently only small family companies are listed, not the big ones.

The 2nd biggest company of those times, the Fugger copper mining company founded 1494, dissolved 1657 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugger is also not listed, neither the 3rd largest, the Welser banking and merchant companies. Welsersche Handelsgesellschaft 1490 and ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welser

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Re:List of oldest companies: Before 1300 by ViktorV on Friday January 19, 2018 @02:18PM (#16188896)

I suppose that the company has to be functioning in the present too.

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Re:List of oldest companies: Before 1300 by rurban on Friday January 19, 2018 @02:51PM (#16189173)

Yes, that's the purpose. Oldest still existing companies. But I didn't like that the biggest ones, bigger than today's Amazon or Google are not in it.

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Re:List of oldest companies: Before 1300 by arduanika on Friday January 19, 2018 @10:37PM (#16191920)

I suppose that the company has to be old too

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