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List of oldest companies: Before 1300

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Re: List of oldest companies: Before 1300

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Post by ac29 »

pera wrote: post #56
navidfarhadi wrote: post #26

The oldest name on this list that stood out to me is Weihenstephan brewery, founded in 1040 in Bavaria, Germany. They have some of the finest lagers I have ever tried. If you enjoy crisp, refreshing lager beers, I highly recommend their beers. My favorite one is probably the Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier, followed by the Hefeweissbier Dunkel. Note: I am not affiliated in any way with the company, I just highly enjoy…

Weihenstephaner's hefeweizen is my favorite beer of all times. It's quite difficult to find here in Seattle, but I guess that makes it more special :)

Doesn't seem that uncommon around Seattle: https://www.weihenstephaner.com/product-finder/

Re: List of oldest companies: Before 1300

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Post by mrweasel »

tobinfricke wrote: post #79
geofft wrote: post #16

Wow, this web page looks like it hasn't been updated since 1439: http://www.luebeckaltstadthotel.de/

* Loads instantly * Provides all relevant information at a glance Needs more Javascript?

And doesn't work as they intended, the links behind the picture isn't actually click-able.

Re: List of oldest companies: Before 1300

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Post by rconti »

navidfarhadi wrote: post #26

The oldest name on this list that stood out to me is Weihenstephan brewery, founded in 1040 in Bavaria, Germany. They have some of the finest lagers I have ever tried. If you enjoy crisp, refreshing lager beers, I highly recommend their beers. My favorite one is probably the Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier, followed by the Hefeweissbier Dunkel. Note: I am not affiliated in any way with the company, I just highly enjoy…

Lots of breweries. Belgian Abbeys; Grimbergen, Affligem... Can anyone opine on how similar today's beers might taste to how they did "back in the day?" I'm sure some of the beers are based on the original recipes, and with the Reinheitsgebot, it's fairly plausible that all of the ingredients in the German beers in particular are very similar. But I'm not sure how the process might have changed over the years, or how the ingredients might taste different now than they did a century ago.

Re: List of oldest companies: Before 1300

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Post by zerr »

ambrosite wrote: post #78
zerr wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The web design company ( http://www.online-media-werbeagentur.de/ ) seems out of business though :)

The copyright date is 2006. It's amazing that a site design like this would have been built as late as 2006. It looks more like something from 1996. Oh, and I just noticed that if you change the language to German, there is a link to a photo gallery: http://www.luebeckaltstadthotel.de/tischbein.htm

Tell you honestly, I prefer these kind of informative websites rather than nowadays Bootstrap blobs, where you need to full-page scroll several times trying to get some idea but all you get is 3 large icons in a row and sometimes a big green button if you're lucky.

Re: List of oldest companies: Before 1300

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Post by lucozade »

twobyfour wrote: post #93

The older tiers of this list seem to be heavily dominated by Japan, Germany, and Switzerland. Is that reflective of something other than the demographics of non-"New World" contributors to Wikipedia?

Japan's dominance is likely to be heavily influenced by the fact that families could adopt adults to continue running the business. This would have helped substantially to keep family run businesses running competently much longer than their equivalents in countries where that wasn't the tradition. That's probably not sufficient to explain 50 generation (!?) but could very well explain 20 or so.

Germany, Austria and the UK, mostly seem to be breweries and inns/pubs. I'd speculate that some of this is likely to be monastery or abbey run so, again, it's not as family dependent as most businesses would have been. Also, if you find a popular spot for serving beer in one of those countries, say near a major market, you'd be getting punters for generations.

Switzerland's a bit less obvious. Possibly it's to do with its stability and conservativism?

Re: List of oldest companies: Before 1300

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Post by davidw »

twobyfour wrote: post #108
davidw wrote: post #103

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Relative stability, and good written records are probably a reasonable part of the answer.

Switzerland and Japan, maybe. What is now Germany was not particularly stable during the Middle Ages. Or the Early Modern era. Or the 20th Century for that matter.

Yeah; it's a relatively large place though, so maybe some of the companies were in areas that didn't get quite so beat up in various wars?
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