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WORLDKINGS – Worldkings News – Europe Records Institute (EURI) – Greencore: World’s largest sandwich manufacturer

(Worldkings.org) Greencore is the world’s largest maker of sandwiches, produces 350 million a year, and has a 36% share of the UK market.

WORLDKINGS – Worldkings News – Europe Records Institute (EURI) – Edinburgh International Film Festival: World’s oldest continually running film festival

(Worldkings.org) The film festival shows a range of feature-length films and documentaries as well as short films, animations and music videos.

WORLDKINGS – Worldkings News – Europe Records Institute (EURI) – London to Brighton Veteran Car Run: World’s longest-running motoring event

(Worldkings.org) It is also the world's largest gathering of veteran cars – 443 started in 2005, 484 in 2009, compared to 37 starters in 1927, 51 starters in 1930 and 131 in 1938.

WORLDKINGS – Worldkings News – Europe Records Institute (EURI) – Pinkpop: World’s oldest and longest running annual dedicated pop and rock music festival

(Worldkings.org) If Pentecost falls on an early date in May, the festival is held later in June. Starting in 1970, at Burgemeester Damen Sportpark in the city of Geleen, Pinkpop is the oldest and longest running annual dedicated pop and rock music festival in the world.

WORLDKINGS – Worldkings News – Europe Records Institute (EURI) – Cheltenham Literature Festival: World’s longest-running literature festival

(Worldkings.org) Cheltenham Literature Festival is the world's longest-running literature festival. The Festival was founded by the Spa Manager George Wilkinson, in conjunction with the Tewkesbury-based author John Moore, who served as its first director.

WORLDKINGS – Worldkings News – Europe Records Institute (EURI) – Oliwa Cathedral: World’s longest Cistercian church

(Worldkings.org) The cathedral is 17.7m high, 19m wide and 107m long (97.6m of the interior itself), which makes it the longest Cistercian church in the world.

WORLDKINGS – Worldkings News – Europe Records Institute (EURI) – Seville Cathedral: World’s largest Gothic church

(Worldkings.org) The total area occupied by the building is 11,520 square metres (124,000 sq ft). The Gothic section alone has a length of 126 m (413 ft), a width of 76 m (249 ft), and its maximum height in the center of the transept is 42 m (138 ft).

WORLDKINGS – Worldkings News – Europe Records Institute (EURI) – People’s Salvation Cathedral: World’s tallest and largest Orthodox church by volume

(Worldkings.org) It is located in central Bucharest on Spirea's Hill (Arsenal Square), facing the same courtyard as the Palace of Parliament, which is the heaviest building in the world, the cathedral having a tenth of its weight.

WORLDKINGS – Worldkings News – Europe Records Institute (EURI) – Erfurt Cathedral: House world’s largest medieval free-swinging bell

(Worldkings.org) Erfurt Cathedral houses the world's largest medieval free-swinging bell, it is now swung electrically. It was welded in 1985 to repair a crack, then, in August 2004, the bell was re-fused due to another crack from 2001.

WORLDKINGS – Worldkings News – Europe Records Institute (EURI) – Schwabe AG: World’s oldest printing and publishing house

(Worldkings.org) Schwabe AG is the world's oldest printing and publishing house. Schwabe publishes about 60 books and magazines annually, focusing on humanities and medicine.

WORLDKINGS – Worldkings News – Europe Records Institute (EURI) – Ed Meier: World’s oldest existing shoemaking company

(Worldkings.org) At the beginning of the 20th century Wilhelm Eduard Meier expanded the offering with ready-made high-quality shoes. After World War II the company was rebuilt from ruins by Eduard Meier II who inherited it from his father.

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