How 100-Year-Old Companies Survive
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Not All 100-Year Companies are Dinosaurs
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DeWitt Barrels is a 117-year-old company that just won the Michigan Family-Owned Business of the Year award. In the Grand Rapids Press arti...
Friday, March 12, 2010
Many Old Companies Are Family Businesses
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An article recently appeared in the Muskegon Chronicle about a 100-year-old shoe store in Fremont, Michigan. The owner of Vredeveld Shoes ...
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
305 Companies and Counting.....
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One of my student researchers, Alison Meshkin, has put together our first "scrubbed" list of U.S. companies over 100 years old and...
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Monday, January 11, 2010
100-Year-Old Businesses Lost in 2009
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According to CNN Money.com more than 45,000 businesses closed their doors for good in 2009, including some that survived for longer than a c...
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Can We Increase Company Longevity?
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Humans have learned what behaviors increase longevity: a balanced diet, regular exercise, monitoring blood pressure and cholesterol, etc. B...
Monday, December 21, 2009
"Family" Connections
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Not all old companies are family-owned, but a significant number are privately-held. The majority of 100-year-old local companies I have st...
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Why Study Old Companies?
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For several years I have been interested in learning about very old companies (those with at least 100 years of independent operation) to se...
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