Cascade Investment LLC

berkesher hathway owners:5%

Holder Name Shs Held $ Market Value %Out Fully Diluted Shs Rpt Date

Cascade Investment, L.L.C. 1,679,138      5,340,498,432 11.3    1,342,350 07-01-09
Buffett (Warren) 1,501,532       4,775,622,656    10.1      2,018,105 07-01-09

Type Holding Company
Founded 1994
Headquarters Kirkland, Washington, United States
Key people Bill Gates, Chairman & CEO
Industry Diversified Investments

Cascade Investment LLC is a private investment and holding company, incorporated in United States. It is controlled by Bill Gates, and is headquartered in the city of Kirkland, Washington.

It has been claimed that more than half of Gates' fortune is held in assets outside his holding of Microsoft shares,[1] probably through Cascade Investment only. Cascade is the successor company to Dominion Income Management, the former investment vehicle for Gates' holdings, which was managed by longtime friend Andy Evans.
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List of investments and companies

Investment does not necessarily indicate ownership.

The company describes itself as a diversified investment company. Its investments include:
AutoNation
Berkshire Hathaway
Canadian National Railway
Carpetright
Coca Cola Femsa SAB de CV - 20% stake[2][3]
Cox Communications
Microsoft Corporation
FEMSA (Mexican brewer) - $364 million (Dec. 2007) - 1.2 percent of FEMSA capital through "B" shares.[4] Cascade might thus own 10.81 million of Femsa's New York-traded American Depositary Shares, about 3 percent of Femsa, the world's second largest Coke bottler and Mexico's second-largest brewer.[5]
Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts - 42.5 percent
ICOS
Newport News Shipbuilding
Otter Tail Power Company
Pan American Silver Corporation
Republic Services, Inc - U.S. waste management - 20% estimated[6]
Sapphire Energy[7]
Schnitzer Steel Industries
Scient
Televisa [8]
Wisconsin Central Transportation