Berkshire
Berkshire Hathaway, Inc was a small textile company. Its chairman and CEO of the company is Warren Buffett, the world's third richest man. He invested his partnership in invests in Berkshire Hathaway at the price of $8.6 million (The Essential Buffett, p27). It took him over 35years to grow its book value from $19 per share to $37,987 per share with a rate of 24 percent compounded annually (The Essential Buffett, p44). Buffett started purchasing other businesses, which were primarily insurance companies, with profits from the declining original textile business. In 1985, the original textile business was shut down and Berkshire Hathaway started the insurance business.
Now, Berkshire Hathaway is primarily an insurance company, which holds 73 businesses. According to Robert G. Hagstrom, the company owns an investment portfolio that consists of a newspaper, a candy company, an ice cream/hamburger chain, several furniture stores, a carpet manufacture, a paint company, a......
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