Dr Shashank M Hiremath

  Berkshire Hathaway Inc Company Information Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is an American conglomerate founded by Oliver Chace in the year 1839. Being currently headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska in the United States, it originally started as a textile manufacturing company.  The Berkshire Hathaway Inc Class A Shares are the costliest shares, trading at more than $4,30,000. This was largely because there has never been a stock split, and the company paid dividends only once after billionaire investor Warren Buffet took over the company.  Being a conglomerate, Berkshire Hathaway is engaged in diversified investments in various other corporations, insurance, utilities, food processing, consumer, real estate, operating North American railroad operations, etc.  What originally started as a textile company expanded its operations into the insurance sector largely due to the waning textile industry after World War-I. In 1965, Warren Buffet took over Berkshire Hathaway, who later e...