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4 unusual facts about Berkshire Hathaway


Amesbury, Massachusetts

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PacifiCorp

Since 2006, PacifiCorp has been a wholly owned subsidiary of MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company, itself an affiliate of Berkshire Hathaway.

See's Candies

The company largely markets its products in its own stores, those of fellow Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary Nebraska Furniture Mart, and via mail order catalog.

The Stanford Daily

Lorry I. Lokey (1949) – founder of Business Wire, a news release service that was later bought by Berkshire Hathaway; philanthropist


Bank of America Home Loans

Between 1982 and 2003, Countrywide delivered investors a 23,000.0% return, exceeding the returns of Washington Mutual, Walmart, and Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway.

Bond insurance

Richard Blumenthal, then-attorney general of Connecticut, Ajit Jain of Berkshire Hathaway, then-Superintedent Eric Dinallo of the New York State Insurance Department, and a Moody's representative were also in attendance.

Gary Parr

’s investment in Morgan Stanley; the merger of Bank of New York and Mellon; the sale of Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette to Credit Suisse First Boston; Dean Witter Discover’s merger with Morgan Stanley; and Berkshire Hathaway’s acquisition of GEICO.

Howard Buffett

Howard Graham Buffett (grandson): following in his father's footsteps, is on the corporate board of Berkshire Hathaway

Oliver Chace

Oliver Chace's great-great-great-grandson, Malcom Greene Chace III, remained a director of Berkshire Hathaway until 2007, when he was replaced by Susan Decker.

Pimm Fox

While at Bloomberg, he has interviewed a diverse group of people, including David Shaw of DE Shaw, Jim Clark of Netscape and WebMD, Eli Broad of SunAmerica and Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway.


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James Linder

Linder is married to Karen Linder SCT(ASCP), author of The Women of Berkshire Hathaway.

The Buffalo News

In 2009, Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, called his continued ownership of the newspaper "not totally rational", saying that the industry's practice of giving away its content online but charging for it in the print edition has been a mistake.