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Last Trade
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Last Trade:
$313,700.00
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Change:
-1300.00 (-0.41%)
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Trade Time:
Sep 20
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Market Cap:
$222.68B
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Description of Business
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Berkshire Hathaway Inc. ("Berkshire," "Company" or "Registrant") is a holding
company owning subsidiaries engaged in a number of diverse business activities.
The most important of these are insurance businesses conducted on both a primary
basis and a reinsurance basis, a freight rail transportation business and a
group of utility and energy generation and distribution businesses. Berkshire
also owns and operates a large number of other businesses engaged in a variety
of activities, as identified herein. Berkshire is domiciled in the state of
Delaware, and its corporate headquarters are located in Omaha, Nebraska.
Berkshire's operating businesses are managed on an unusually decentralized
basis. There are essentially no centralized or integrated business functions
(such as sales, marketing, purchasing, legal or human resources) and there is
minimal involvement by Berkshire's corporate headquarters in the day-to-day
business activities of the operating businesses.
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