21 Companies Turn 100 in 2023

At least 21 U.S. companies celebrate their 100th anniversary in 2023 and only one is public: Walt Disney Company. Of the 20 that are privately-owned, 12 are generational family companies and one is employee-owned. Here is the list I have gathered to date: please let me know if I have missed a new Century Club Company. 

Albanese Butcher, NYC, 3rd generation

Avalon Theater, Grand Junction CO

Borr's Shoes, Holland MI

Bradbury Stamm Construction, Albuquerque NM, 4th generation

Burns Chevrolet, Gafney SC

Geissler's Supermarkets, East Windsor CT, 4th generation

Goedecke Decorating, Bedford NH, 4th generation

Harbor Food Groups, Kent WA, 4th generation

Lake GM Auto Center, Devils Lake ND

L.H. Hayward & Co., Harahan LA, 4th generation (Camellia Beans)

Martin Sustainable Resources, Alexandria LA, 3rd & 4th generations (wood products)

Meinholdt's Welding & Machine Shop, Topeka KS

Old Point Financial, Hampton VA

Paielli's Bakery, Kenosha WI, 3rd & 4th generations

Phillips Flowers, Chicago IL, 3rd & 4th generations (?)

R.H. White Construction, Auburn MA, 3rd generation

Sunnyside Ford, Holden MA, 3rd generation

Superior Die Set, Oak Creek WI, 4th generation

Walt Disney Company, Burbank CA, public

Wendell August Forge, Mercer PA

W.W. Norton & Co., NYC, employee-owned (publisher)

125th Anniversary Companies

 

Twenty-one Century Club Companies celebrate their 125th anniversary in 2023. Three are public (including Goodyear and International Paper), 11 generational family-owned (including Bechtel), and one is employee-owned. Congratulations to all!

Alter Trading, St. Louis MO 3rd generation (recycling)

American Nickeloid, Peru IL (manufacture metal products)

Bank of England, England AR (banking)

Bechtel, Reston VA 5th generation (engineering, construction)

Belletetes, Jaffrey NH 3rd, 4th & 5th generations (lumber & building materials)

Burns & McDonnell, Kansas City MO employee-owned (engineering, construction)

Cox Enterprises, Atlanta GA 4th generation (media conglomerate)

Detroit Store Fixture, Detroit MI (commercial equipment)

Eaton Funeral Home, Sullivan MO (funeral services)

FEH Design, Des Moines IA (architecture, design, engineering)

First Citizens Bancshares, Raleigh NC public - also 3rd generation? (banking & finance)

Goodyear Tire & Rubber, Akron OH public (tires & rubber products)

International Paper, Memphis TN public (paper products)

J. Elmer Turner Realtors, Dallas TX 5th generation (real estate services)

McKelvey Homes, Chesterfield MO (construction)

The Old Print Shop, New York City NY, 3rd generation (retail art)

Rambusch Lighting, Jersey City NJ 4th generation (manufacture electrical products)

Robertson's Building Center, Malvern OH 3rd generation? (lumber & building products)

Walsh Group, Chicago IL 4th generation (construction contractor)

Warnock Furniture, Magnolia AR 5th generation (retail furniture)

Worksman Cycles, Ozone Park NY 3rd generation (manufacture cycles)

Notable Anniversaries for Century Club Companies in 2023

Over 350 U.S. businesses celebrate being in continuous, independent operation for 150 years or more in 2023. Here are a few hitting some pretty significant milestones:

400 years: Zildjian 14th generation (began making cymbals in the Ottoman Empire in1623, U.S. since 1929)

225 years: Alan McIlvain and J. Gibson McIlvain 7th generation (both began as the McIlvain Lumber Company in Pennsylvania 1798)

200 years: Munson Machinery (New York manufacturer of mixing & blending equipment since 1823) 

New Hope Mills 3rd generation (though the mill no longer operates, New Hope still sells flour products - particularly pancake mixes)

175 years: Corning Building 5th generation, Hancock Lumber 6th generation, Maze Lumber 6th generation, Dain's Lumber 5th generation, and Richardson Industries 6th generation (all lumber and building materials businesses begun in 1848) 

Knapheide Manufacturing 6th generation (manufacture truck bodies)

Macomber, Farr & Whitten and Ohio Farmers Insurance (both insurance agents) 

150 years: Fehlig Brothers Box & Lumber 5th generation

Grant Renne & Sons 4th & 5th generations (construction & foundation repair) 

Horizon Bancorp (HBNC - the only public company on this list) 

Kohler 4th generation (well-known Wisconsin manufacturer of plumbing products)

Morgan Lewis & Bockius and Shearman & Sterling (law firms) 

Schantz Organ 4th generation (manufacturing pipe organs since 1873)

White & Associates (insurance agency)