How 100-Year-Old Companies Survive

Tuesday, May 23, 2017

15 Companies Celebrate 125th Anniversary in 2017

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Not only are there 15 U.S. companies celebrating 125 years in business this year, 11 of them are generational, family-owned businesse...
Thursday, May 11, 2017

Congratulations to These Firms Celebrating 150 Years in 2017

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Two U.S. companies celebrate their 150th year in business in 2017: one public, one private; one manufacturing, one financial. Join me i...
Friday, March 17, 2017

175th Anniversary Congratulations to Six Firms

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The year was 1842. John Tyler was U.S. President. Ether anesthesia was used for the first time. The 2nd Seminole War ended and the Semi...
Thursday, February 16, 2017

13 US Generational Family-Owned Funeral Homes Are Over 150 Years Old

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Several of the longevity practices that turned up in my research of companies over 100 years old have to do with personalized customer s...
Saturday, January 28, 2017

200 Years in Business: The Claflin Company

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Century Club congratulations go out to The Claflin Company, which started in 1817 as an apothecary in Providence, Rhode Island. Today it ...
Wednesday, December 28, 2016

2017 New Century Club Members

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2017 will see the following 13 companies added to the roster of U.S. Century Club companies. Some have changed quite a bit over the la...
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Tuesday, October 25, 2016

New Century Club Companies

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Many thanks to the many people who have purchased my book or read this blog and contacted me (centuryclubcompanies@gmail.com) about a com...
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Vicki TenHaken
Professor of Management at Hope College in Holland, MI; Ruch Director of the Baker Scholars Program; 2007/08 Fulbright Scholar at the Krakow University of Economics in Poland. 25 years of business experience including positions as VP of Marketing, Founder & General Manager of Herman Miller Retail, and EVP of Strategy with Herman Miller, Inc., and in Human Resource Management with General Electric. Served on the boards of SoundOff Signal, Resthaven Care Community, and Hope College. Publications include articles in the areas of leadership, corporate longevity, global business and entrepreneurship.
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