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Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
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Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is an American multinational holding company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, originally a nineteenth-century textile manufacturing business before Warren Buffett gained control of it in 1965 and transformed it into a diversified holding company. It owns and invests in businesses spanning insurance, railroads, utilities, manufacturing and consumer brands, and it is one of the largest companies in the world by market capitalization, widely studied for Buffett's long-term value-investing approach and his closely followed annual shareholder letters.
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Warren Buffett's investment holding company, widely studied in finance for its value-investing approach to capital allocation.
Berkshire Hathaway, run by Warren Buffett, is the most commonly cited real-world example of a holding company, a parent structure owning controlling stakes across many independently operated businesses rather than running them directly.
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Warren Buffett has served as Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway since 1965, transforming the former textile manufacturer into a diversified holding company; he did not found the original 1839 textile firm but built the modern conglomerate.
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