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...Berkshire’s housing businesses, including modular home unit Clayton Homes and home decor retailer Nebraska Furniture Mart, offered hints about how consumers were responding to higher prices and increased...
...They will get discounts on goods from Berkshire’s companies, from Nebraska Furniture Mart to Borsheims Fine Jewelry. They will see old friends....
...A quarter century ago, his biggest non-financial investments — the “sainted seven” — were brands that included See’s Candies and Nebraska Furniture Mart....
...The “Sage of Omaha” also purchased businesses he liked, often found close to home and run by people he knew, such as National Indemnity, an insurer, in 1969, and Nebraska Furniture Mart in 1983....
...Furniture Mart downtown, another Berkshire company....
...In an opening film montage to welcome the record 35,000 shareholders who made the pilgrimage to Omaha’s Qwest Center, Mr Buffett was recast as a salesman in his Nebraska Furniture Mart....
...In one clip Mr Buffett had been relegated to selling “Nervous Nellie” mattresses, which come with pockets for stashing cash, at his Nebraska Furniture Mart store in Omaha....
...She continues to appear at his side at official events 1978 Susan introduces him to Astrid Menks, who eventually moves in with him 1983 Purchases Nebraska Furniture Mart for $60m....
...Highlights include the Trump Tower, Merchandise Mart, the Wrigley Building, the Tribune Tower, the Sears Tower, River City, Marina City and the site of Santiago Calatrava’s Spire....
...When he bought Nebraska Furniture Mart from 89-year-old Rose Blumkin, her business had never had an audit. Mr Buffett did not request one, nor did he check the inventory or leases....
...In between appearances by Mr Buffett, his similarly witty lieutenant Charlie Munger, the Nebraska Furniture Mart’s “Financial Fiesta” and sleight-of-hand tricks by magician Norman Beck, the meeting should...
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