negativeMeeting2015-05-02conf:high
Buffett on his biggest failures
“I looked at a shoe business in Dexter, Maine, and decided to pay $400 or so million for something that was destined to go to zero in a few years”
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Dexter Shoe Company
4 mentions across the corpus · positive 2 · negative 2 · neutral 0 · historical 0
negativeMeeting2011-04-30conf:high
Afternoon Session - 2011 Meeting
“dexter was our worst business”
positiveMeeting1994-04-25conf:high
Morning Session - 1994 Meeting
“the market has voted very heavily for Dexter shoe, just to be an example. I don't know how many pairs of shoes they were turning out back in 1958”
positiveLetter1993-07-01conf:high
1993 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“founded Dexter in 1956 with $10,000 of capital. He was joined in 1958 by Peter Lunder, his nephew. The two of them have since built a business that now produces over 7.5 million pairs of shoes annuall”