List of assets owned by Berkshire Hathaway
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This is a list of assets owned by Berkshire Hathaway
Berkshire Hathaway
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is an American multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, United States, that oversees and manages a number of subsidiary companies. The company averaged an annual growth in book value of 20.3% to its shareholders for the last 44 years,...

, Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett
Warren Edward Buffett is an American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is widely regarded as one of the most successful investors in the world. Often introduced as "legendary investor, Warren Buffett", he is the primary shareholder, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. He is...

's investment company. This list includes private subsidiaries and large common stock
Common stock
Common stock is a form of corporate equity ownership, a type of security. It is called "common" to distinguish it from preferred stock. In the event of bankruptcy, common stock investors receive their funds after preferred stock holders, bondholders, creditors, etc...

 holdings, as well as Berkshire's sizable cash position.

Cash and equivalents

As of June 30, 2011, Berkshire Hathaway had $49 billion in cash and cash equivalents. http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1067983/000115752311004793/a6813983.htm

Subsidiaries

Company Sector Ownership % Acquisition Date
Geico
GEICO
The Government Employees Insurance Company is an auto insurance company. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway that as of 2007 provided coverage for more than 10 million motor vehicles owned by more than 9 million policy holders. GEICO writes private passenger automobile insurance...

Insurance and Finance 100% 1996-08-26 (August 26, 1996)
Applied Underwriters Insurance and Finance 100% 2004-05-22 (May 22, 2004)
General Re
General Re
Gen Re is a leading property/casualty and life/health reinsurance company and is owned by Berkshire Hathaway Inc.-History:General Reinsurance Corporation’s history began in 1921 when two Norwegian companies, Norwegian Globe and Norwegian Assurance, merged and took the name General Casualty and...

Insurance and Finance 100% 1995-12-21 (December 21, 1995)
Kansas Bankers Surety Company
Kansas Bankers Surety Company
Kansas Bankers Surety Company is an insurance company based in the United States. It is a subsidiary of Wesco Financial Corporation, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, the investment vehicle of Warren Buffett....

Insurance and Finance 100% 1998-04-10 (April 10, 1998)
National Indemnity Company
National Indemnity Company
National Indemnity Company is an insurance company based in Omaha, Nebraska, and founded in 1940. It is a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, who bought the company in 1967....

Insurance and Finance 100% 1977-02-23 (February 23, 1977)
United States Liability Insurance Group Insurance and Finance 100% 2000-08-08
Central States Indemnity Company
Central States Indemnity Company
Central States Indemnity Company is an insurance company based in Omaha, Nebraska. It is a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway....

Insurance and Finance 100% 1982-10-20 (October 20, 1982)
Wesco Financial Corporation Insurance and Finance 100% 1978
Dairy Queen
Dairy Queen
Dairy Queen, often abbreviated DQ, is a chain of soft serve and fast food restaurants owned by International Dairy Queen, Inc, who also owns Orange Julius and Karmelkorn. The name "Dairy Queen" is taken from the name of their soft serve product, which the company refers to as "Dairy Queen" or...

Food and Beverage 100% 1997-10-21 (October 21, 1997)
The Pampered Chef
The Pampered Chef
The Pampered Chef, Ltd. a global company that offers a line of kitchen tools, food products, and cookbooks aimed for preparing food in the home with a worldwide direct sales force over 60,000 in addition to 750 corporate staff...

Food and Beverage 100% 2002-09-23 (September 23, 2002)
See's Candies
See's Candies
See's Candies is a manufacturer and distributor of candy, particularly chocolate, in the western United States. It was founded by Charles See, his wife Florence, and his mother Mary in Los Angeles, California, in 1921. The company is now headquartered in South San Francisco, California...

Food and Beverage 100% 1972-01-03 (January 3, 1972)
Fechheimer Brothers Company Clothing 100% 1986
Fruit of the Loom
Fruit of the Loom
Fruit of the Loom is an American company which manufactures clothing, particularly underwear. The company's world headquarters is in Bowling Green, Kentucky. It is currently a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway.-Company profile:...

Clothing 100% 2002-04-30 (April 30, 2002)
Garan Children's Clothing Clothing 100% 2002-09-04 (September 4, 2002)
H.H. Brown Shoe Group Clothing 100% 1991-07-01 (July 1, 1991)
Justin Brands Clothing 100% 2000-08-01 (August 1, 2000)
CORT Business Services Furniture Related 100% 2000-01-14 (January 14, 2000)
Jordan's Furniture
Jordan's Furniture
Jordan's Furniture is a furniture retailer in eastern Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire, with locations in Reading, Avon, and Natick, Massachusetts and Nashua, New Hampshire.-History:...

Furniture Related 100% 1999-10-11 (October 11, 1999)
Larson-Juhl Furniture Related 100% 2001-12-17 (December 17, 2001)
Nebraska Furniture Mart
Nebraska Furniture Mart
Nebraska Furniture Mart is the largest home furnishing store in North America selling Furniture, Flooring, Appliances and Electronics. NFM was founded in 1937 by Mrs. B in Omaha, Nebraska. She worked in the business until age 103. In 1983, Mrs. B sold a majority interest to Berkshire Hathaway with...

Furniture Related 90% 1983
RC Willey Home Furnishings
RC Willey Home Furnishings
RC Willey Home Furnishings is a home furnishings company with stores in Utah, Idaho, Nevada and California. It was founded by Rufus Calle Willey in 1932 when he started selling Hotpoint Brand appliances door-to-door in Syracuse, Utah...

Furniture Related 1995
Star Furniture Furniture Related 100% 1997-07-14 (July 14, 1997)
Acme Brick
Acme Brick
Acme Brick Company is an American manufacturer and distributor of brick and masonry-related construction products and materials. Founder, George E. Bennett , chartered the company in Alton, Illinois as the 'Acme Pressed Brick Company' on April 17, 1891...

 Company
Materials and Construction 100% 2000-08-01 (August 1, 2000)
Benjamin Moore & Co.
Benjamin Moore & Co.
Benjamin Moore & Co., also known as Benjamin Moore Paints or simply Benjamin Moore, is an American company that produces paint. It is owned by Berkshire Hathaway. Founded in 1883, Benjamin Moore is based in Montvale, New Jersey...

Materials and Construction 100% 2001-01-01 (January 1, 2001)
Clayton Homes
Clayton Homes
Clayton Homes, a component company of Berkshire Hathaway, is the United States' largest manufacturer of manufactured housing. The company is vertically integrated; it builds, sells, finances, leases, and insures manufactured and modular homes....

Materials and Construction 100% 2007-05-10 (May 10, 2007)
ISCAR Metalworking
ISCAR Metalworking
Iscar Metalworking is the largest company of IMC and one of the largest toolmaking companies in the world. The company was founded in 1952 in a wooden garage behind the home of Stef Wertheimer in Israel...

Materials and Construction 80% 2006-05-08 (May 8, 2006)
Johns Manville Materials and Construction 100% 2001-02-27 (February 27, 2001)
MiTek Materials and Construction 90% 2001-06-12
Precision Steel Warehouse, Inc. Materials and Construction 1979
Shaw Industries
Shaw Industries
Shaw Industries Group, Inc., a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., is the world's largest carpet manufacturer with more than $4 billion in annual sales and approximately 25,000 associates worldwide...

Materials and Construction 2002-01-21
The Buffalo News
The Buffalo News
The Buffalo News is the primary newspaper of the Buffalo – Niagara Falls metropolitan area, and the area's only daily newspaper. It is the only newspaper owned by Berkshire Hathaway.-History:...

Media 100% 1977-04 (April, 1977)
Business Wire
Business Wire
Business Wire is a company that disseminates full-text news releases from thousands of companies and organizations worldwide to news media, financial markets, disclosure systems, investors, information web sites, databases and other audiences. The company distributes news via its own patented...

Media 100% 2006-03-01 (March 1, 2006)
XTRA Corporation Logistics 100% 2001-09-20 (September 20, 2001)
McLane Company
McLane Company
McLane is a $28 billion supply chain services company, providing grocery and foodservice supply chain solutions for thousands of convenience stores, mass merchants, drug stores and military locations, as well as thousands of chain restaurants throughout the United States. McLane is a wholly owned...

Logistics 100% 2003-05-23 (May 23, 2003)
Ben Bridge Jewelers Luxury Items 100% 2000-07-18 (July 18, 2000)
Borsheim's Fine Jewelry
Borsheim's Fine Jewelry
Borsheim's Fine Jewelry is a jewelry store in Omaha, Nebraska. The store was founded in 1870, and has been a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway since 1989....

Luxury Items 100% 1989
Helzberg Diamonds
Helzberg Diamonds
- Leadership :In April 2009, Beryl Raff, former executive vice president and general merchandise manager of fine jewelry at JCPenney, was named Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Helzberg.-History:...

Luxury Items 100% 1995
Scott Fetzer Companies Other 100% 1985
MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company
MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company
MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company is a holding company controlled by Berkshire Hathaway.Gregory E Abel serves as president, chairman and CEO.-Investments:MidAmerican holds the following companies:*MidAmerican Energy Company*PacifiCorp*CE Electric UK...

Utilities 75% 1999-03-26 (March 26, 1999)
NetJets
NetJets
NetJets, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, offers fractional ownership and rental of private business jets.-History:NetJets Inc., formerly Executive Jet Aviation, was founded in 1964 as one of the first private business jet charter and aircraft management companies...

Business Services 100% 1998
NetJets Europe
NetJets Europe
- History :NetJets Europe, also known by its corporate legal name, NetJets Transportes Aéreos, S.A., was founded in 1996 as a sister company of NetJets in the United States. In 2002 Mark Booth, the man who brought MTV to Europe and the former CEO of BSkyB, became the company’s Chairman and CEO...

Business Services 100% 1998
FlightSafety Business Services 100% 1997
CTB Inc. Capital Goods 100% 2002
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation is the parent company of the BNSF Railway .The corporation was incorporated in 1995 to facilitate the merger of Burlington Northern, Incorporated, parent of the Burlington Northern Railroad, and Santa Fe Pacific Corporation, which owned the Atchison, Topeka...

Railroads and Logistics 100% 2010-02-12 (February 12, 2010)
Blue Chip Stamps
Blue Chip Stamps
Blue Chip Stamps started as a trading stamps company called "Blue Chip Stamp Co." They were a competitor to S&H Green Stamps. Blue Chip stamps was a loyalty program for customers, similar to discount cards issued by pharmacies and grocery stores in the digital era...

Other 100% 1983-03 (March 1983)

Significant minority holdings

Company Sector Ownership % Acquisition Date
American Express
American Express
American Express Company or AmEx, is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Three World Financial Center, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. Founded in 1850, it is one of the 30 components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The company is best...

Insurance and Finance 13.1% 2005-08-08 (August 8, 2005)
M&T Bank
M&T Bank
M&T Bank is an American commercial bank that was founded in 1856 in western New York, and today remains headquartered in Buffalo at One M & T Plaza...

Insurance and Finance 15.9% of common stock
Anheuser-Busch
Anheuser-Busch
Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. , is an American brewing company. The company operates 12 breweries in the United States and 18 in other countries. It was, until December 2009, also one of America's largest theme park operators; operating ten theme parks across the United States through the...

Food and Beverage 9.8% 2005 (as of end of Q3 2005)
The Coca-Cola Company
The Coca-Cola Company
The Coca-Cola Company is an American multinational beverage corporation and manufacturer, retailer and marketer of non-alcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups. The company is best known for its flagship product Coca-Cola, invented in 1886 by pharmacist John Stith Pemberton in Columbus, Georgia...

Food and Beverage 8.64% 2009-06-20 (June 20, 2009)
The Washington Post Company Media 18.1% 2004 (as of end of 2004)
Procter & Gamble
Procter & Gamble
Procter & Gamble is a Fortune 500 American multinational corporation headquartered in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio and manufactures a wide range of consumer goods....

Consumer Goods 4.0% 2005 (as of end of 2005)

Insurance and finance subsidiaries

  • Verisk Analytics
    Verisk Analytics
    Verisk Analytics is an American financial services firm based in Jersey City, New Jersey, that provides information and analytical tools for mortgage and insurance companies, to better help them identify risks and standardize procedures...

  • Duval
    Duval
    Duval is a surname, literally translating from French to English as 'of the valley', and may refer to:*Alexandre-Vincent Pineux Duval*Barry E. DuVal*Burr H. Duval , son of William Pope, brother of John C...

  • GEICO
    GEICO
    The Government Employees Insurance Company is an auto insurance company. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway that as of 2007 provided coverage for more than 10 million motor vehicles owned by more than 9 million policy holders. GEICO writes private passenger automobile insurance...

  • General Re
    General Re
    Gen Re is a leading property/casualty and life/health reinsurance company and is owned by Berkshire Hathaway Inc.-History:General Reinsurance Corporation’s history began in 1921 when two Norwegian companies, Norwegian Globe and Norwegian Assurance, merged and took the name General Casualty and...

  • Kansas Bankers Surety Company
    Kansas Bankers Surety Company
    Kansas Bankers Surety Company is an insurance company based in the United States. It is a subsidiary of Wesco Financial Corporation, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, the investment vehicle of Warren Buffett....

  • National Indemnity Company
    National Indemnity Company
    National Indemnity Company is an insurance company based in Omaha, Nebraska, and founded in 1940. It is a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, who bought the company in 1967....

  • Wesco Financial Corporation
  • Applied Underwriters Inc.
    Applied Underwriters Inc.
    Applied Underwriters Inc. is an insurance company that specializes in providing worker's compensation insurance and payroll processing services. It is headquartered in Foster City, California, but maintains a national operations center in Omaha, Nebraska...

  • Medical Protective
    Medical Protective
    Medical Protective is an American liability insurance company for physicians and dentists. Medical Protective traces its roots back to a predecessor company, the Physicians’ Guarantee Company. Alpheus P. Buchman, MD and Miles F...

  • Nederlandse Reassurantie Groep
  • Berkshire Hathaway Assurance
    Berkshire Hathaway Assurance
    Berkshire Hathaway Assurance is an bond insurance company created by Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. in December, 2007.-History:Berkshire created this government bond insurance company in December, 2007 to insure municipal and state bonds. These type bonds are issued by local governments to finance public...


Other subsidiaries

  • Acme Brick Company
  • Ben Bridge Jeweler
  • Benjamin Moore Paints
    Benjamin Moore & Co.
    Benjamin Moore & Co., also known as Benjamin Moore Paints or simply Benjamin Moore, is an American company that produces paint. It is owned by Berkshire Hathaway. Founded in 1883, Benjamin Moore is based in Montvale, New Jersey...

  • Borsheim's Fine Jewelry
    Borsheim's Fine Jewelry
    Borsheim's Fine Jewelry is a jewelry store in Omaha, Nebraska. The store was founded in 1870, and has been a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway since 1989....

  • Brooks Sports, Inc.
    Brooks Sports, Inc.
    Brooks Sports, Inc. was founded in 1914 by Morris Goldenberg and is a company that produces high performance shoes, soccer and running apparel. Brooks originally produced bathing shoes in 1917 before moving into sports in the 1930s by producing baseball cleats in 1920 and football cleats in the...

  • Business Wire
    Business Wire
    Business Wire is a company that disseminates full-text news releases from thousands of companies and organizations worldwide to news media, financial markets, disclosure systems, investors, information web sites, databases and other audiences. The company distributes news via its own patented...

  • Clayton Homes
    Clayton Homes
    Clayton Homes, a component company of Berkshire Hathaway, is the United States' largest manufacturer of manufactured housing. The company is vertically integrated; it builds, sells, finances, leases, and insures manufactured and modular homes....

  • Cort Furniture
  • Dairy Queen
    Dairy Queen
    Dairy Queen, often abbreviated DQ, is a chain of soft serve and fast food restaurants owned by International Dairy Queen, Inc, who also owns Orange Julius and Karmelkorn. The name "Dairy Queen" is taken from the name of their soft serve product, which the company refers to as "Dairy Queen" or...

  • FlightSafety International
    FlightSafety International
    FlightSafety International is a provider of professional aviation training, simulation equipment and software, operating as a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, who has owned the company since 1996....

  • Forest River
    Forest River (company)
    Forest River Inc, a US manufacturer of a diverse line of primarily recreational vehicle products, $1.6 billion in sales, 60 plants, 5,400 employees. Located in Elkhart, Indiana, the company operates multiple manufacturing facilities throughout the Mid West and West Coast...

  • Fruit of the Loom
    Fruit of the Loom
    Fruit of the Loom is an American company which manufactures clothing, particularly underwear. The company's world headquarters is in Bowling Green, Kentucky. It is currently a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway.-Company profile:...

  • Helzberg Diamonds
    Helzberg Diamonds
    - Leadership :In April 2009, Beryl Raff, former executive vice president and general merchandise manager of fine jewelry at JCPenney, was named Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Helzberg.-History:...

  • HH Brown Shoe Group
  • ISCAR Metalworking
    ISCAR Metalworking
    Iscar Metalworking is the largest company of IMC and one of the largest toolmaking companies in the world. The company was founded in 1952 in a wooden garage behind the home of Stef Wertheimer in Israel...

  • Jordan's Furniture
    Jordan's Furniture
    Jordan's Furniture is a furniture retailer in eastern Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire, with locations in Reading, Avon, and Natick, Massachusetts and Nashua, New Hampshire.-History:...

  • Justin Brands Inc.
  • Kirby Company
    Kirby Company
    The Kirby Company is a manufacturer of vacuum cleaners and home cleaning accessories, based in Cleveland, Ohio. It is a subsidiary of the Scott Fetzer Company which in turn is part of Berkshire Hathaway. Dealers are located in over 70 countries throughout the world...

  • Marmon Holdings Inc
  • McLane Company
    McLane Company
    McLane is a $28 billion supply chain services company, providing grocery and foodservice supply chain solutions for thousands of convenience stores, mass merchants, drug stores and military locations, as well as thousands of chain restaurants throughout the United States. McLane is a wholly owned...

  • Mouser Electronics
    Mouser Electronics
    Mouser Electronics is a catalog distributor of electronic components based in Mansfield, Texas, United States.-History:Mouser Electronics was founded in El Cajon, California by Jerry Mouser in 1964. The company later relocated to its branch location in Mansfield, Texas. In January 2000, Mouser...

  • Nebraska Furniture Mart
    Nebraska Furniture Mart
    Nebraska Furniture Mart is the largest home furnishing store in North America selling Furniture, Flooring, Appliances and Electronics. NFM was founded in 1937 by Mrs. B in Omaha, Nebraska. She worked in the business until age 103. In 1983, Mrs. B sold a majority interest to Berkshire Hathaway with...

  • NetJets
    NetJets
    NetJets, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, offers fractional ownership and rental of private business jets.-History:NetJets Inc., formerly Executive Jet Aviation, was founded in 1964 as one of the first private business jet charter and aircraft management companies...

  • The Pampered Chef
    The Pampered Chef
    The Pampered Chef, Ltd. a global company that offers a line of kitchen tools, food products, and cookbooks aimed for preparing food in the home with a worldwide direct sales force over 60,000 in addition to 750 corporate staff...

  • Richline Group
  • Russell Corporation
    Russell Corporation
    Russell Brands, LLC, headquartered in Bowling Green, KY, is a manufacturer of sports equipment, which markets its products under many brands and subsidiaries, including Russell Athletic , Spalding, Huffy, and Brooks, amongst others....

  • See's Candies
    See's Candies
    See's Candies is a manufacturer and distributor of candy, particularly chocolate, in the western United States. It was founded by Charles See, his wife Florence, and his mother Mary in Los Angeles, California, in 1921. The company is now headquartered in South San Francisco, California...

  • Shaw Industries
    Shaw Industries
    Shaw Industries Group, Inc., a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., is the world's largest carpet manufacturer with more than $4 billion in annual sales and approximately 25,000 associates worldwide...

  • Star Furniture
  • R.C. Willey Home Furnishings
    RC Willey Home Furnishings
    RC Willey Home Furnishings is a home furnishings company with stores in Utah, Idaho, Nevada and California. It was founded by Rufus Calle Willey in 1932 when he started selling Hotpoint Brand appliances door-to-door in Syracuse, Utah...

  • TTI, Inc.
    TTI, Inc.
    TTI, Inc. is a distributor of passive, interconnect and electromechanical components. The company was founded by Paul Andrews in 1971. As a former parts buyer for General Dynamics, a military aircraft manufacturer, Andrews developed a specialized inventory with emphasis on capacitors, resistors and...

  • Wayne Water Systems
  • World Book
  • Xtra Lease
    XTRA Lease
    Specializing in semi-trailer rental and leasing, XTRA Lease LLC is owned by the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies headed by investor Warren Buffett. Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, XTRA Lease is one of the largest over-the-road trailer rental and leasing companies in North America...


Common stock holdings

This includes outstanding stock as reported in the last SEC EDGAR
EDGAR
EDGAR, the Electronic Data-Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system, performs automated collection, validation, indexing, acceptance, and forwarding of submissions by companies and others who are required by law to file forms with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission...

 filing (Form 13F
Form 13F
Form 13F is a quarterly report of equity holdings by filed institutional investment managers with at least $100 million in equity assets under management of, as required by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission . These investors include banks, insurance companies, hedge funds,...

), and the latest annual report.
  • American Express Co.
    American Express
    American Express Company or AmEx, is an American multinational financial services corporation headquartered in Three World Financial Center, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. Founded in 1850, it is one of the 30 components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The company is best...

     (13.1%)
  • Anheuser-Busch Cos.
    Anheuser-Busch
    Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. , is an American brewing company. The company operates 12 breweries in the United States and 18 in other countries. It was, until December 2009, also one of America's largest theme park operators; operating ten theme parks across the United States through the...

     (4.8%)
  • Bank of America
    Bank of America
    Bank of America Corporation, an American multinational banking and financial services corporation, is the second largest bank holding company in the United States by assets, and the fourth largest bank in the U.S. by market capitalization. The bank is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina...

  • BYD Company
    BYD Company
    BYD Co Ltd is a Chinese manufacturer of automobiles and rechargeable batteries based in Shenzhen, Guangdong province.Hailed for its innovations, BYD has grown to become a major manufacturer of rechargeable batteries, most notably mobile phone batteries....

     (9.89%)
  • Carmax
    CarMax
    CarMax is the United States' largest used-car retailer and a Fortune 500 company. The first CarMax used car auto superstore was opened in September 1993. In the fiscal year ending February 28, 2009, more than 350,000 cars were sold; as of August 2010 the company has 103 locations.- Concept :The...

     (10%)
  • The Coca-Cola Company
    The Coca-Cola Company
    The Coca-Cola Company is an American multinational beverage corporation and manufacturer, retailer and marketer of non-alcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups. The company is best known for its flagship product Coca-Cola, invented in 1886 by pharmacist John Stith Pemberton in Columbus, Georgia...

     (8.6%)
  • Comdisco (38%)
  • ConocoPhillips
    ConocoPhillips
    ConocoPhillips Company is an American multinational energy corporation with its headquarters located in the Energy Corridor district of Houston, Texas in the United States...

     (5.6%)
  • Costco Wholesale
  • Diageo PLC
    Diageo
    Diageo plc is a global alcoholic beverages company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the world's largest producer of spirits and a major producer of beer and wine....

  • Gannett
  • General Electric
    General Electric
    General Electric Company , or GE, is an American multinational conglomerate corporation incorporated in Schenectady, New York and headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut, United States...

  • GlaxoSmithKline
    GlaxoSmithKline
    GlaxoSmithKline plc is a global pharmaceutical, biologics, vaccines and consumer healthcare company headquartered in London, United Kingdom...

  • Goldman Sachs
    Goldman Sachs
    The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is an American multinational bulge bracket investment banking and securities firm that engages in global investment banking, securities, investment management, and other financial services primarily with institutional clients...

  • The Home Depot
    The Home Depot
    The Home Depot is an American retailer of home improvement and construction products and services.The Home Depot operates 2,248 big-box format stores across the United States , Canada , Mexico and China, with a 12-store chain...

  • Ingersoll Rand
    Ingersoll Rand
    Ingersoll-Rand plc is a $13 billion global diversified industrial company founded in 1871. The Ingersoll Rand name came into use in 1905 through the combination of Ingersoll-Sergeant Drill Company and Rand Drill Company...

  • Iron Mountain
    Iron Mountain
    -United States:Communities* Iron Mountain, Shasta County, California* Iron Mountain, Michigan, a city* Iron Mountain, Missouri, a community and historic mining area in St...

  • Johnson & Johnson
    Johnson & Johnson
    Johnson & Johnson is an American multinational pharmaceutical, medical devices and consumer packaged goods manufacturer founded in 1886. Its common stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the company is listed among the Fortune 500....

     (2.2%)
  • Kraft Foods
    Kraft Foods
    Kraft Foods Inc. is an American confectionery, food and beverage conglomerate. It markets many brands in more than 170 countries. 12 of its brands annually earn more than $1 billion worldwide: Cadbury, Jacobs, Kraft, LU, Maxwell House, Milka, Nabisco, Oscar Mayer, Philadelphia, Trident, Tang...

     (6%)
  • Lowe's Companies
    Lowe's
    Lowe's Companies, Inc. is a U.S.-based chain of retail home improvement and appliance stores. Founded in 1946 in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, the chain now serves more than 14 million customers a week in its 1,710 stores in the United States and 20 in Canada. Expansion into Canada began in...

  • M&T Bank
    M&T Bank
    M&T Bank is an American commercial bank that was founded in 1856 in western New York, and today remains headquartered in Buffalo at One M & T Plaza...

     (6.1%)
  • MidAmerican (83.7%)
  • Munich Re
    Munich Re
    Munich Re Group is a reinsurance company based in Munich, Germany. It is one of the world’s leading reinsurers. ERGO, a Munich Re subsidiary, is the Group’s primary insurance arm....

     (10%)
  • Moody’s Corporation (19.1%)
  • Nestle
    Nestlé
    Nestlé S.A. is the world's largest food and nutrition company. Founded and headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland, Nestlé originated in a 1905 merger of the Anglo-Swiss Milk Company, established in 1867 by brothers George Page and Charles Page, and Farine Lactée Henri Nestlé, founded in 1866 by Henri...

  • NRG Energy
    NRG Energy
    NRG Energy, Inc. is an American energy company headquartered in West Windsor Township, New Jersey, near Princeton.-Electrical Power Generation Operations:...

  • Nike
    Nike, Inc.
    Nike, Inc. is a major publicly traded sportswear and equipment supplier based in the United States. The company is headquartered near Beaverton, Oregon, which is part of the Portland metropolitan area...

  • Norfolk Southern Corp.
    Norfolk Southern Corp.
    The Norfolk Southern Corporation is a publicly-traded stock corporation based in Norfolk, Virginia. It is the holding company for the Norfolk Southern Railway, a major Class I railroad system. The company was formed in 1982 to control the Norfolk and Western Railway as well as the Southern Railway...

  • Outback Steakhouse
    Outback Steakhouse
    Outback Steakhouse is an American casual dining restaurant chain based in Tampa, Florida with over 1200 locations in 22 countries throughout North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. It was founded in February 1988 in Tampa by Bob Basham, Chris T...

  • Petrochina
    PetroChina
    PetroChina Company Limited is a Chinese oil company and is the listed arm of state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation , headquartered in Dongcheng District, Beijing. It is China's biggest oil producer, and was the world's most valuable company by market value as of September 28th 2010...

  • Posco
    POSCO
    POSCO is a multinational steel-making company headquartered in Pohang, South Korea. It is the world's third-largest steelmaker by market value and the most profitable Asia-based steelmaker....

     (4.5%)
  • Procter & Gamble Co.
    Procter & Gamble
    Procter & Gamble is a Fortune 500 American multinational corporation headquartered in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio and manufactures a wide range of consumer goods....

     (3.3%)
  • Sanofi-Aventis
    Sanofi-Aventis
    Sanofi S.A. is a multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Paris, France, the world's fourth-largest by prescription sales. Sanofi engages in the research and development, manufacturing and marketing of pharmaceutical products for sale principally in the prescription market, but the...

     (1.3%)
  • ServiceMaster
    ServiceMaster
    ServiceMaster is a privately held Fortune 500 company that provides various services to residences and firms. Its headquarters are located in Memphis, Tennessee after moving there from Downers Grove, Illinois in early 2007. Brands operated by ServiceMaster include: TruGreen, Terminix, American...

  • Shaw Communications
    Shaw Communications
    Shaw Communications is Canada's largest telecommunications company that provides telephone, Canada's fastest Internet and television services as well as broadcasting and soon Wifi. Shaw is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta...

  • SunTrust Banks
    SunTrust Banks
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