neutralLetter1984conf:high
1984 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“In 1984, we had a virtually identical transaction with General Foods. The only difference was that General Foods repurchased its stock over a period of time in the open market”
← All stocksStock detail
General Foods Corporation
$GF11 mentions across the corpus · positive 1 · negative 0 · neutral 10 · historical 0
neutralLetter1984conf:high
1984 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“the GEICO and General Foods transactions should be treated as sales of stock by Berkshire rather than as the receipt of dividends”
positiveLetter1984conf:medium
1984 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“by the large share repurchases of GEICO, Washington Post, and General Foods, our three largest holdings.”
neutralLetter1984conf:high
1984 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“4,047,191 General Foods Corporation ........... 149,870 226,137”
neutralLetter1983conf:high
1983 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“4,451,544 General Foods Corporation(a) ..... 163,786 228,698”
neutralLetter1982conf:high
1982 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“our holdings of three of these companies - GEICO, General Foods and The Washington Post”
neutralLetter1982conf:high
1982 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“2,101,244 (b) General Foods, Inc. ................ 66,277 83,680”
neutralLetter1981conf:high
1981 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“In just four ownership positions in this category - GEICO Corporation, General Foods Corporation, R. J. Reynolds Industries, Inc. and The Washington Post Company”
neutralLetter1981conf:high
1981 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“2,101,244 (b) General Foods, Inc. ................... 66,277 66,714”
neutralLetter1980conf:high
1980 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“1,983,812 (b) General Foods, Inc. ................... 62,507 59,889”
neutralLetter1979conf:high
1979 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“328,700 General Foods, Inc. ..................... 11,437 11,053”