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(16) Business Segment Data (Continued)
Deprec. & amort.
Capital expenditures * of tangible assets
Operating Segments: 1999 1998 1997 1999 1998 1997
Insurance group:
GEICO ............................. $ 87 $ 101 $ 27 $ 40 $ 27 $ 26
General Re .......................... 17 — — 25 — —
Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group .... — — — — — —
Berkshire Hathaway Direct Insurance Group . 1 1 1 1 1 1
Total insurance group ................... 105 102 28 66 28 27
Buffalo News .......................... 5 2 3 2 2 3
Flight services ......................... 323 213 119 77 58 55
Home furnishings ...................... 41 21 43 16 13 10
International Dairy Queen ................ 9 10 — 4 3 —
Jewelry .............................. 14 12 9 11 10 10
Scott Fetzer Companies .................. 14 10 6 11 11 11
See’s Candies ......................... 6 15 20 5 5 5
Shoe group ........................... 6 9 11 12 13 12
523 394 239 204 143 133
Reconciliation of segments to consolidated
amount:
Corporate and other ................... 7 5 3 11 4 3
Purchase-accounting-adjustments ......... — — — 3 8 8
$ 530 $ 399 $ 242 $ 218 $ 155 $ 144
* Excludes expenditures which were part of business acquisitions.
Identifiable assets
at year-end
Operating Segments: 1999 1998 1997
Insurance group:
GEICO ................................................ $ 9,381 $ 8,663 $ 7,683
General Re ............................................. 30,168 32,011 —
Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group ....................... 39,607 36,611 34,781
Berkshire Hathaway Direct Insurance Group .................... 4,866 5,564 5,902
Total insurance group ...................................... 84,022 82,849 48,366
Buffalo News ............................................. 30 29 28
Flight services ............................................ 1,790 1,345 792
Home furnishings ......................................... 648 489 457
International Dairy Queen ................................... 207 199 —
Jewelry ................................................. 258 234 219
Scott Fetzer Companies ..................................... 298 242 256
See’s Candies ............................................ 78 79 65
Shoe group .............................................. 301 336 353
87,632 85,802 50,536
Reconciliation of segments to consolidated amount:
Corporate and other ...................................... 25,276 17,671 2,450
Goodwill and other purchase-accounting-adjustments ............. 18,508 18,764 3,125
$131,416 $122,237 $56,111