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)
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