The Hathaway Manufacturing Company was a producer of cotton textiles founded in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1888 by Horatio Hathaway , a China trader and whaler in the Pacific.
5-473: Hathaway may refer to: Commerce [ edit ] Hathaway Manufacturing Company , a predecessor of Berkshire Hathaway, an investment vehicle Berkshire Hathaway , a holding company A brand of dress shirts, formerly made by the C. F. Hathaway Company in Waterville, Maine Places [ edit ] Hathaway (Tannersville, New York) , listed on
10-457: A billion yards of material that sold for more than $ 60 million. The assets, and a sizable amount of cash on the balance sheet, caught the eye of Warren Buffett , an up-and-coming but little-known investor from Omaha, Nebraska . Through his Buffett Partnership Limited investment firm Buffett started buying stock in Berkshire at $ 7.60 a share. He eventually paid an average of $ 14.86 a share, or
15-532: The Hathaway Mills had grown to contain 108,000 ring and mule spindles and 3,400 looms for the production of fine cotton goods, for which the humid seaside location of New Bedford was well suited. In 1955, Hathaway merged with Berkshire Fine Spinning Associates of Adams, Massachusetts , and became known as Berkshire Hathaway . By the 1960s, Berkshire Hathaway had declined to seven plants and 6,000 employees, but still annually produced one quarter of
20-572: The NRHP in Greene County, New York Hathaway, Louisiana Hathaway, West Virginia Hathaway Academy , Grays, Essex, England Other uses [ edit ] Hathaway (surname) , including a list of people with the name Hathaw9y , South Korean indie band See also [ edit ] Hathaway House (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
25-513: The title Hathaway . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hathaway&oldid=1212409774 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Hathaway Manufacturing Company By 1917,
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