Oldest Stock Company

Certain banks in Eastern U. S. cities have already reached and passed their centennials. Such age as a single century, however, pales into insignificance beside that of the oldest corporation in the world —the Stora Kopparbergs Bergslags A. B. This Swedish business stock company, organized in 1225, is this year celebrating its 700th anniversary.

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