Monday, January 19, 2009

Berkshire's Investments 1982


No. of Shares
or Share Equiv.                                          Cost       Market  
---------------                                       ----------  ----------
                                                          (000s omitted)
   460,650 (a)   Affiliated Publications, Inc. ......  $  3,516    $ 16,929
   908,800 (c)   Crum & Forster .....................    47,144      48,962 
 2,101,244 (b)   General Foods, Inc. ................    66,277      83,680
 7,200,000 (a)   GEICO Corporation ..................    47,138     309,600
 2,379,200 (a)   Handy & Harman .....................    27,318      46,692
   711,180 (a)   Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc.     4,531      34,314
   282,500 (a)   Media General ......................     4,545      12,289
   391,400 (a)   Ogilvy & Mather Int’l. Inc. ........     3,709      17,319
 3,107,675 (b)   R. J. Reynolds Industries ..........   142,343     158,715
 1,531,391 (a)   Time, Inc. .........................    45,273      79,824
 1,868,600 (a)   The Washington Post Company ........    10,628     103,240
                                                      ----------  ----------
                                                       $402,422    $911,564
                 All Other Common Stockholdings .....    21,611      34,058
                                                      ----------  ----------                                                        
                 Total Common Stocks                   $424,033    $945,622
                                                      ==========  ==========

(a) All owned by Berkshire or its insurance subsidiaries.

(b) Blue Chip and/or Wesco own shares of these companies.  All 
    numbers represent Berkshire’s net interest in the larger 
    gross holdings of the group.

(c) Temporary holding as cash substitute.