“The world’s oldest continuously operating family business ended its impressive run last year,” the article began. I just ran into the article yesterday on a news feed, but when I looked at the details, I discovered it was first published on April 16, 2007 and in areferred to an event that had occurred more than a year before that.

But the date of the article is probably not too important. The company that went bankrupt was over 1400 years old, having been started in 578 A.D. The president at time of bankruptcy was a member of the 40th generation to run the company. Read the rest of this entry »

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