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80
BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC.
OPERATING COMPANIES
Company Employees Company Employees
Acme Buildin
g
Brands 2
,
892 Justin Brands 974
Adalet (1) 179 Kansas Bankers Suret
y
Com
p
an
y
18
Alta
q
ui
p
(1) 338 Kern River Gas Transmission Com
p
an
y
(2) 160
A
pp
lied Underwriters
,
Inc. 421 Kin
g
ston (1) 226
Ben Brid
g
e Jeweler 761 Kirb
y
(1) 708
Ben
j
amin Moore 2
,
860 Larson-Juhl 1
,
817
Berkshire Hathawa
y
Homestate Com
p
anies 668 McLane Com
p
an
y
15
,
880
Berkshire Hathawa
y
Reinsurance Division 27 Medical Protective Cor
p
oration 373
Borsheim’s Jewelr
y
209 Meriam Instrument (1) 67
The Buffalo News 877 MidAmerican Ener
gy
Com
p
an
y
(2) 3
,
131
Business Wire 492 MidAmerican Ener
gy
Holdin
g
s Com
p
an
y
(2) 738
CalEner
gy
(2) 430 MiTek Inc. 1
,
736
Cam
p
bell Hausfeld (1) 683 National Indemnit
y
Com
p
anies 836
Carefree of Colorado (1) 255 Nebraska Furniture Mart 2
,
408
Central States Indemnit
y
Co. 336 NetJets 6
,
542
Cla
y
ton Homes
,
Inc. 14
,
787 Northern Natural Gas (2) 935
Cleveland Wood Products (1) 82 Northern and Yorkshire Electric (2) 2
,
409
CORT Business Services 2
,
448 Northland (1) 146
CTB International 1
,
231 PacifiCor
p
(2) 3
,
162
Dair
y
Q
ueen 2
,
336 Pacific Power (2) 1
,
152
Dou
g
las/
Q
uikut (1) 74 The Pam
p
ered Che
f
825
Fechheimer Brothers 930 Precision Steel Warehouse 202
Fli
g
htSafet
y
International 4
,
004 Rock
y
Mountain Power (2) 2
,
141
Forest River
,
Inc. 5
,
177 Russell Cor
p
oration 14
,
105
France (1) 153 Other Scott Fetzer Com
p
anies (1) 123
Fruit of the Loom 24
,
026 See’s Candies 3
,
000
Garan 3
,
895 Shaw Industries 31
,
469
GEICO 20
,
098 Stahl (1) 375
General Re Cor
p
oration 2
,
815 Star Furniture 727
H. H. Brown Shoe Grou
p
1
,
234 United Consumer Finance Com
p
an
y
(1) 239
Halex (1) 113 United States Liabilit
y
Insurance Grou
p
445
Helzber
g
’s Diamond Sho
p
s 2
,
139 Wa
y
ne Water S
y
stems (1) 153
HomeServices of America (2) 3
,
554 Wesco Financial Cor
p
.13
Iscar 6
,
518 Western Enter
p
rises (1) 393
Johns Manville 7
,
885 R. C. Wille
y
Home Furnishin
g
s 2
,
950
Jordan’s Furniture 1
,
186 World Book (1) 197
XTRA 643
Operating Companies total 217,531
Corporate Office 19
217,550
(1) A Scott Fetzer Company
(2) A MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE CORPORATE GOVERNANCE MATTERS
As a listed Company with the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”), Berkshire is subject to certain Corporate Governance
standards as required by the NYSE and/or the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). Among other requirements,
Berkshire’ s CEO, as required by Section 303A.12(a) of the NYSE Listing Company Manual, must certify to the NYSE each year
whether or not he is aware of any violations by the Company of NYSE Corporate Governance listing standards as of the date of
the certification. On May 15, 2006, Berkshire’ s CEO Warren E. Buffett, submitted such a certification to the NYSE which stated
that he was not aware of any violation by Berkshire of the NYSE Corporate Governance listing standards.
On March 15, 2006, Berkshire filed its 2005 Form 10-K with the SEC and on March 1, 2007, Berkshire filed its 2006 Form
10-K with the SEC. The Form 10-K’ s included as Exhibits 31.1 and 31.2 the required CEO and CFO Sarbanes-Oxley Act Section
302 certifications.