Company obituaries: the longest-lived companies dissolved this month

21 October 2026 · Figures as of 20/10/2026

Most dissolved companies are a few years old. Every so often one has been on the register for more than a century. Our company obituaries mark the longest-established companies dissolved each day: name, dates, age and where they were registered. Nothing more, and never at anyone's expense.

20 October 2026

On 20/10/2026, a bulk strike-off day, 10,201 companies were dissolved. The longest-established included:

• Norbrit Pickering Limited: 25/02/1888 – 20/10/2026. Aged 138.
• Longai Valley Tea Company Limited: 01/08/1893 – 20/10/2026. Aged 133. Registered in Wrotham.
• Lankapara Tea Company Limited: 08/11/1895 – 20/10/2026. Aged 130. Registered in Wrotham.
• Jetinga Valley Tea Company Limited: 28/07/1897 – 20/10/2026. Aged 129. Registered in Wrotham.
• Robert Browning Settlement (Incorporated): 01/01/1903 – 20/10/2026. Aged 123. Registered in the City of Westminster.

Several late-Victorian tea companies, all registered in Wrotham in Kent, left the register on the same day. Companies like these often outlive their original purpose by decades before they're formally closed.

A respectful record

A dissolution is the end of a legal entity, not of the people behind it, who usually move on to something new. That's why the obituaries show company facts only, and never name individuals.