“We own a company called Marmon. We bought it from the Pritzker family some years ago. Pritzker's had built this business from many, many, many companies that they had acquired.”
Marmon
7 mentions across the corpus · positive 2 · negative 0 · neutral 4 · historical 1
2016 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“and Marmon (primarily tank cars but also freight cars, intermodal tank containers and cranes). Each is the leader”
2014 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“Marmon's very sizable leasing operations, whose wares are railcars, containers and cranes...Today we own virtually 100% of Marmon”
Afternoon Session - 2014 Meeting
“multiples Berkshire paid for minority interests of Marmon and Iskart in 2013”
2011 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“We purchased 64% of the company in 2008 and put this interest on our books at our cost, $4.8 billion”
2010 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“The largest earner in our manufacturing, service and retailing sector is Marmon, a collection of 130 businesses.”
2010 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter
“Next to Marmon, the two largest earners in this sector are Iscar and McLane.”