If running a business hard, keeping that business going for more than a century is almost impossible.
According to the BLS, only 15% of businesses make it one decade. 20% don’t even last a year. Yet, in every state there are notable exceptions that have defied the odds.
The 50 businesses below have defied the odds and all been in operation more than 100 years. Some companies pre-date their state’s admission into the union. A few are even older than the United States.
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