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FeedChristmas is as good a time as any to announce a deal I suppose, and buying a conglomerate consisting of 125 manufacturing and service companies is probably Warren Buffett's preferred means of celebrating.
For $4.5 billion, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) will get 60% of Marmon Holdings, with plans to acquire the rest over the next 5 or 6 years at a price to be determined by the company's future profitability. According to the press release, the company's operations are pretty diverse:
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| 2 | Tom Johansmeyer | 99 | 0 |
| 3 | Steven Mallas | 51 | 0 |
| 4 | Connie Madon | 48 | 0 |
| 5 | Tom Taulli | 46 | 0 |
| 6 | Mark Fightmaster | 37 | 0 |
| 7 | Steven Halpern | 35 | 0 |
| 8 | Trey Thoelcke | 34 | 0 |
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| 10 | Paul Foster | 24 | 0 |
| 11 | Brent Archer | 22 | 0 |
| 12 | Jon Ogg | 22 | 0 |
| 13 | Melly Alazraki | 21 | 0 |
| 14 | Jim Cramer | 21 | 0 |
| 15 | Zac Bissonnette | 21 | 0 |
| 16 | Eric Buscemi | 17 | 0 |
| 17 | Michael Fowlkes | 14 | 0 |
| 18 | Michael Shulman | 13 | 0 |
| 19 | Elizabeth Harrow | 11 | 0 |
| 20 | Sheldon Liber | 9 | 0 |
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