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The Dow Jones Industrial Average, an American stock index composed of 30 large companies, has changed its components 59 times since its inception, on May 26, 1896. [1] As this is a historical listing, the names here are the full legal name of the corporation on that date, with abbreviations and punctuation according to the corporation's own usage.
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This list of the oldest companies in the United States includes brands and companies, excluding associations, educational, government or religious organizations. To be listed, a brand or company name must remain, either whole or in part, since inception. To limit the scope of this list, only companies established before 1820 are listed.
Of the companies with more than 100 years of history, most of them (89%) employ fewer than 300 people. [1] [2] A nationwide Japanese survey counted more than 21,000 companies older than 100 years as of September 30, 2009. [3]
The list includes publicly held companies, along with privately held companies for which revenues are publicly available. The concept of the Fortune 500 was created by Edgar P. Smith, a Fortune editor, and the first list was published in 1955. [2] [3] The Fortune 500 is more commonly used than its subset Fortune 100 or superset Fortune 1000. [4]
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