[Closed] Who here works for the oldest company?

95 this year. Several of the same staff still around.

Was privatised in 1997, many of the old civil service staff still clinging on.

Not now but the old family farm is about 150 I think, still going strong.

600 yrs

Founded in 1885 here according to the internet (Intertek).

Anyone who works for the government?

About 300 if you believe the PR..

204 years

Prostitution is the oldest profession apparently, so perhaps someone from one of the older brothel companies....

Anyone who works for the government?

Its not a 'company' strictly speaking - a family farm might not be either.

I think the oldest companies in the UK of any scale (as opposed to a few old pubs / family butcher etc) are Lloyds Insurance and the Bank of Scotland

1619!

If a school is a company.

older brothel companies

bit of a niche appeal - although I hear Wayne Rooney is a regular

164 years for me. Not bad for a construction firm.

95 this year. Several of the same staff still around.

Eh? Assuming they were 16 when the company was founded that would make them 111 years old.

Do we have any Priests on here, the Catholic Paedophile Ring has being going for quite some time....

Bloody hell. A Japanese builders founded in 578 was bought out by someone in 2006!

That would make the oldest company a hotel founded in 705AD and still open!

According to Wikipedia, in the UK it's the Bingley Arms that dates from 953.

163 years.

Not bad for Americans.

1863 so a mere youngster.

Eh? Assuming they were 16 when the company was founded that would make them 111 years old.

He didn't say they were still alive, just that they were still around. Jeremy Bentham hasn't retired yet even though he died in 1832 🙂

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Not a company as such, but founded in 1872, so 144 years.

Not a company exactly and it's been through various incarnations, but the 'roots' can apparently be traced back to 1843.

1821 for us. First in the world at the one specific thing we did then that nobody else thought was worth doing. Probably they were right 😆

I'm glad that I don't work in the oldest profession.

I may well work for the [u]youngest[/u] company - 26 days.

110 years old this year where I work now.

I used to work for Jennings Brewery which was one of the first companies with an official registration number from 1828 if I remember correctly

mine's positively modern.

interesting list on Wikipedia. especially interesting how many are breweries, inns, etc., and that the UK's oldest brewery is one of the youngest.

The one I work for was founded in 1637

Not exactly a company but 127 years, Derbyshire County Council formed in 1889

Anyone work for a really old company?

Yes, I would say I do.

1885 - so 131 years old.
currently employs over 170k people as well.

SaxonRider wins.

Just over 450 years here.

Why does Saxonrider win, is he a Catholic priest?

Started production on the site from which I'm typing in 1807. Been through several owners and names but the still essentually the same company.

I work for a University, so roughly 1096. Bit I work in was 1602.

I think I work for the same company as Molgrips, for now anyway.

159 years old, although bits of it date back another 30 years or so before that.

Why does Saxonrider win, is he a Catholic priest?

Close.

256 for me. The company i work for was founded in 1760.

1389 years

1903

Who's that? St Peter's school of York?

Who's that? St Peter's school of York?

Me?

Dulwich

The company i work for was founded in 1760.

Lloyd's Register?

colonel wax - Member
I work for a University, so roughly 1096. Bit I work in was 1602.

Bodleian?

1582 for the school I'm at

500 years old this year

1792 was the start of my company. feels like I've been there since day 1...

Only 4 years this place, although *cough cough* a company with a similar name and nature of trade was here before a 'misunderstanding' with HMRC killed it.

Last place started out in 1861, but was bought up in the 90's by one that was started in 1834 - oh how we used to mock the 'old boys' next door, until the whole thing was bought up by a real old timer firm who started in 1727 in 2000. You could argue they were bought up, well 83%ish of it in 2008 by the UK.

I'm self employed. 🙄

If it's the kids' school I do volunteer type stuff at, that opened in 1350.

No vicars here?

But it clearly hasn't been a company for all that time come to think of it, so I lose.

Bodleian?

Yep, though not in one of the nice looking bits!

East Anglian Real Property Co.limited just folded after 89 years,
But the timing is a bit weird, what with Brexit coming up

So we are finally safe from German invasion or is there a plan B to their cunning Red Roofed Barns

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/revealed-hitlers-plot-invade-england-5040483

No vicars here?

I'm a Vedic Purohita 🙂

dragon, you could very well be spot on the money with that guess.

I was there when they gave out the commemorative 250 years book 🙂

1807 educational publishing.

Everyone...Intertek we use your testing services.

Company I work for is a civil engineering firm 151 yrs old.

current employer only 5 years old, but plenty of chopping up and TUPE involved -most of us worked for a much much older employer and are still in the same posts sat at same desks as we were before current company even ever thought about.

More excitingly, when I was a lot younger I very briefly worked for the Gendarmerie Nationale, which wikipedia tells me is only 2 years younger than the Revolution. But much older still if you consider that the first gendarmes were TUPE'd over from the Marshalcy which started somewhere in the 1100's...

My own company opened it's doors 6 years ago today. Not the oldest, but I'm possibly the proudest!

I've done some volunteer work for St John Ambulance, which (sort of!) started in 1099...

My wife used to work somewhere that started in 1534.

If only Druid.H was still here

My wife used to work somewhere that started in 1534.

CofE vicar, then?

CofE vicar, then?

300 years. But in reality 15 in its current form.