neutralLetter2005conf:high
Wesco Financial Annual Letter 2005
“exchange of Wesco's common shares in The Gillette Company for common shares in The Procter & Gamble Company in connection with the merger of Gillette with Procter & Gamble”
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Gillette Company
$G10 mentions across the corpus · positive 3 · negative 1 · neutral 6 · historical 0
negativeLetter2005conf:high
2005 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“Gillette's acquisition of Duracell cost Gillette shareholders billions of dollars, a loss never made visible by conventional accounting.”
positiveBook2005conf:high
“Of course, Gillette and Coke make fairly low-priced items and have a tremendous marketing advantage all over the world.”
neutralLetter2004conf:high
Wesco Financial Annual Letter 2004
“the recently announced sale of The Gillette Company to The Procter and Gamble Company”
neutralMeeting1995-05-01conf:medium
Afternoon Session - 1995 Meeting
“I don't know what the situation would be today if somebody walked in a Gillette, or. or cap cities”
positiveLetter1995conf:high
1995 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“Our best holding has been Gillette, which we told you from the start was a superior business.”
neutralLetter1994conf:high
1994 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“The Gillette Company ............... 600,000 1,797,000”
neutralLetter1991conf:high
1991 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“The Gillette Company ........... 11.0% --- 23(2) ---”
positiveLetter1989conf:high
1989 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“Gillette's business is very much the kind we like. Charlie and I think we understand the company's economics”
neutralLetter1989conf:high
1989 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“we hold in Capital Cities, Salomon, Gillette, USAir and Champion”