> Mike Rosing[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote
[...]
> The Berrata family is still around,
> mostly because they never decided
> to be a _political_ power. They
> have stayed as an economic one.
[...]
I think you meant the *Beretta* family, who
have been making fine fireams since the 1520's.
Other really old companies:
Stora Enso Oyj of Helsinki, Finland, a
paper and board maker, began as a
copper mine in central Sweden in 1288.
Sumitomo Corp. of Tokyo was founded
as a book and medicine shop in Kyoto in
the early 1600s by Masatomo Sumitomo.
Peter Trei
