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...Buffett’s sprawling conglomerate, which owns the BNSF railroad and Geico insurer, first invested in the iPhone maker in 2016 at the direction of one of his two investment deputies: Todd Combs and Ted Weschler...
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...BNSF also reported lower rail shipment volumes....
...Additional reporting by Dylan Loh A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on March 6. ©2024 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...A total of 65 per cent of those who voted in a local referendum in Grünheide expressed opposition to Tesla’s plan, which involves the clearing of 100 hectares of forest to make way for a railway station,...
...controversial among environmental campaigners and locals, who two weeks ago overwhelmingly voted against a major expansion plan that would have involved clearing hundreds of hectares of forest to build a railway...
...his annual letter on Saturday that there were very few deals that offer the kind of transformative impact past takeovers have had, such as its purchases of insurers Geico and National Indemnity or the BNSF...
...There were, he said, few deals that offered the kind of transformative impact past takeovers have had, such as its purchases of insurers Geico and National Indemnity or the BNSF railroad....
...But investors said they would be closely scrutinising Buffett’s annual letter next February for any indications that change is afoot at the conglomerate, which counts insurer Geico and the BNSF railroad...
...Barbie Inc: An increasing number of films revolve around the origin stories of everyday objects. Is Hollywood’s basket of ideas finally empty?...
...Berkshire’s BNSF Railway, which runs from California to Illinois, reported a decline in shipping revenues and said consumer and industry demand had fallen....
...His father built bridges and railway lines for the city of San Diego, where the family settled down. Samii remembers his father poring over architectural plans to work out engineering failures....
...The sprawling conglomerate is now worth more than $780bn, with stakes in Apple, Coca-Cola and Bank of America as well as ownership of the BNSF railroad and Geico insurer....
...The BNSF railroad, with more than 32,000 miles of track that run from Oakland, California to Chicago, showed a 12 per cent drop in revenues....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on April 2 2024. ©2024 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...One investor said they were concerned Berkshire did not have systems in place to address what they called “reprehensible behaviour” at BNSF....
...The activist, known for waging battles at companies including JCPenney, Allergan and Canadian Pacific Railway, is employing the same bare-knuckle tactics at his alma mater, including calling for the removal...
...Traffic on its BNSF railroad also fell at the start of the year, which the company blamed on lower imports from the west coast and the loss of a customer....
...A version of this article was first published on October 24 by Nikkei Asia. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...The canal and railway manias of the 1790s and 1840s respectively helped transform the UK into the world’s leading economy, for example....
...The company plans to open “flex spaces” in places such as Destin, Florida, (population 14,000) and in Britain’s traditional railway hub of Crewe (55,000)....
...After a decade or two in which the market has rewarded sexier sectors like tech, Buffett’s bets on energy, railways, insurance, utilities and the like are poised to outperform in decades to come....
...At the top of the list was Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, the former owner of Seibu Railway, whose wealth Forbes estimated at $15bn....
...A tentative agreement in September delivered concessions to employees and BNSF said pay costs rose 27 per cent in the third quarter from a year earlier....
...The company’s underlying businesses, which include the BNSF railroad and Dairy Queen ice cream purveyor, generated a $6.7bn profit in the final three months of the year, down 8 per cent from the prior year...
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