What’s the Oldest Company in the UK?
4 min readNov 4, 2019
More than half of the world’s oldest companies are from Japan. Until recently, the oldest company was a family-run Japanese temple builder, Kongo Gumi, that was founded in 578 but it closed in 2006. Its replacement as the oldest company in the world opened in 705. This company is a 35-room hot spring hotel in Japan called Keiunkan, which holds the Guinness World Record for the oldest hotel.
