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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued)
(23) Business segment data (Continued)
A disaggregation of our consolidated data for each of the three most recent years is presented in the tables which follow (in
millions).
Revenues Earnings before income taxes
2015 2014 2013 2015 2014 2013
Operating Businesses:
Insurance group:
Underwriting:
GEICO ................................... $ 22,718 $ 20,496 $ 18,572 $ 460 $ 1,159 $ 1,127
General Re ................................ 5,975 6,264 5,984 132 277 283
Berkshire Hathaway Reinsurance Group ........ 7,207 10,116 8,786 421 606 1,294
Berkshire Hathaway Primary Group ............ 5,394 4,377 3,342 824 626 385
Investment income ............................. 4,562 4,370 4,735 4,550 4,357 4,713
Total insurance group ............................... 45,856 45,623 41,419 6,387 7,025 7,802
BNSF ............................................ 21,967 23,239 22,014 6,775 6,169 5,928
Berkshire Hathaway Energy .......................... 18,231 17,614 12,743 2,851 2,711 1,806
Manufacturing ..................................... 36,136 36,773 34,258 4,893 4,811 4,205
McLane Company .................................. 48,223 46,640 45,930 502 435 486
Service and retailing ................................ 23,466 14,276 13,284 1,720 1,546 1,469
Finance and financial products ........................ 6,964 6,526 6,110 2,086 1,839 1,564
200,843 190,691 175,758 25,214 24,536 23,260
Reconciliation to consolidated amount:
Investment and derivative gains/losses .............. 10,347 4,081 6,673 10,347 4,081 6,673
Interest expense, not allocated to segments .......... — — — (374) (313) (303)
Investments in Kraft Heinz ....................... 730 694 146 730 694 146
Corporate, eliminations and other .................. (1,099) (793) (427) (971) (893) (980)
$210,821 $194,673 $182,150 $34,946 $28,105 $28,796
Interest expense Income tax expense
2015 2014 2013 2015 2014 2013
Operating Businesses:
Insurance group .................................... $ — $ — $ — $ 1,475 $1,768 $2,083
BNSF ............................................ 928 833 729 2,527 2,300 2,135
Berkshire Hathaway Energy .......................... 1,830 1,623 1,139 450 589 130
Manufacturing ..................................... 50 69 70 1,548 1,544 1,403
McLane Company .................................. 13 14 12 195 169 178
Service and retailing ................................ 40 11 21 651 576 557
Finance and financial products ........................ 384 463 529 708 597 556
3,245 3,013 2,500 7,554 7,543 7,042
Reconciliation to consolidated amount:
Investment and derivative gains/losses .................. — — — 3,622 760 2,334
Interest expense, not allocated to segments .............. 374 313 303 (131) (110) (106)
Investments in Kraft Heinz ........................... — — — (111) 41 51
Corporate, eliminations and other ...................... (104) (73) (2) (402) (299) (370)
$3,515 $3,253 $2,801 $10,532 $7,935 $8,951
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