5 Oldest Companies In The World

1. Kongo Gumi

Year of founding of the company: 578

Easily topping the list of the oldest companies in the world is the Japanese construction company, Kongo Gumi. Imagine, the company was founded more than 1,400 years ago. It was actually founded 1,443 years ago but even ignoring 43 years doesn’t really affect how old the company is. The construction company was a family-owned corporation throughout its history. However, unfortunately, even the seemingly immortal cannot escape the financial realities of recent decades and the company faced significant difficulties in 2006, which led to it becoming a subsidiary of the Takamatsu Construction Company, and it continues to exist as such even today.

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