Nebraska Furniture Mart

Afternoon Session - 2022 Meeting

“you interviewed Erb Blumpkin at the Furniture Mart, and for two years, you know, the prices have just kept coming in higher”

2020 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting - Part 2 - Q&A

“Nebraska Furniture Mart and Oriole trading, in my view, have a fine future”

2020 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter

“By 1983, the pair had created a business worth $60 million. That year, on my birthday, Berkshire purchased 80% of NFM”

Morning Session - 2019 Meeting

“On Tuesday, the Nebraska Furniture Mart did $9.3 million worth of business”

Morning Session - 2019 Meeting

“we did 9.2 million of, or 9.3 million, a profitable volume at the Nebraska Furniture Mart, and I think that company had paid in capital of $2,500”

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“Rose Blumkin, who founded the Nebraska Furniture Mart... she took $2,500 and turned it into the largest home furnishing store.”

Afternoon Session - 2018 Meeting

“at the Nebraska Furniture Mart, that share that. Is it perfect? No, it's far from perfect.”

2017 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter

“Last year, the one-week volume for the store was a staggering $44.6 million. Bricks and mortar are alive and well at NFM.”

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“And we have them throughout the country. Our Houston's furniture operation. The Nebraska Furniture Merritt.”

2016 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter

“Nebraska Furniture Mart's sales broke their 2015 record volume by 3%, with the Omaha store recording one-week volume of $45.5 million.”

2015 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter

“At Nebraska Furniture Mart, located on a 77-acre site on 72nd Street between Dodge and Pacific, we will again be having "Berkshire Weekend" discount pricing.”

2013 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter

“giving you an update on Nebraska Furniture Mart's expansion into Texas. I'm not covering this event because of its economic importance to Berkshire”

2012 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter

“At Nebraska Furniture Mart, located on a 77-acre site on 72nd Street between Dodge and Pacific”

Afternoon Session - 2011 Meeting

“the furniture mart obviously is a as a terrific operation”

2011 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter

“several members of the fourth Blumkin generation have joined NFM”

2009 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter

“Nebraska Furniture Mart (furniture retailing) Ron and Irv Blumkin — profits improved”

Afternoon Session - 2007 Meeting

“You get money from the Nebraska Furniture Mark, which we own 80% of”

Afternoon Session - 1999 Meeting

“fantastic companies as the Nebraska Furniture Mart or seized candies or any of the other fantastic businesses”

1995 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter

“It was Nebraska Furniture Mart's Irv Blumkin who did the walking around in the case of R.C. Willey, long the leading home furnishings business in Utah.”

1992 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter

“after her family sold 80% of Nebraska Furniture Mart (NFM) to Berkshire in 1983, Mrs. B continued to be Chairman”

1991 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter

“Our favorite form of purchase is one fitting the pattern through which we acquired Nebraska Furniture Mart, Fechheimer's and Borsheim's.”

1989 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter

“The Nebraska Furniture Mart had record sales and excellent earnings in 1989, but there was one sad note.”

1989 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter

“At the Mart Louie, Ron, and Irv Blumkin continue to propel what is by far the largest and most successful home furnishings store in the country.”

1988 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter

“Last year we dubbed these operations the Sainted Seven: Buffalo News, Fechheimer, Kirby, Nebraska Furniture Mart”

1987 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter

“Mrs. B (Rose Blumkin), the 94-year-old chairman of Nebraska Furniture Mart... NFM is far and away the largest home furnishings store in the country.”

1986 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter

“Nebraska Furniture Mart ... 17,685 12,686 ... 7,192 5,181”

1986 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter

“The amazing Blumkins continue to perform business miracles at Nebraska Furniture Mart... Mrs. B. and her progeny roll on. In 1986 net sales increased 10.2% to $132 million.”

1985 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter

“I am merging the discussion of Nebraska Furniture Mart, See's Candy Shops, and Buffalo Evening News here because the economic strengths”

1985 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter

“At Nebraska Furniture Mart our basic strength is an exceptionally low-cost operation that allows the business to regularly offer customers the best values available in home furnishings.”

1984 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter

“Nebraska Furniture Mart... Last year NFM's net sales increased by $14.3 million, bringing the total to $115 million”

1984 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter

“the NFM operation is simply extraordinary (and, remember, it all comes from a $500 investment by Mrs. B in 1937). By unparalleled efficiency and astute volume purchasing, NFM is able to earn excellent”

1984 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter

“Out-of-towners should schedule a stop at Nebraska Furniture Mart. If you make some purchases, you'll save far more than enough to pay for your trip”

1983 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Letter

“Nebraska Furniture Mart(1) 3,812 -- — operating earnings line item”