Company: BRK-A
Filing Date: 2025-02-24
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000950170-25-025210
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Company: BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC
Filing Date: 2025-02-24
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 7
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 )
     
    (1.1
    )

    $
    138,672
     
    $
    144,342
     
    $
    91,512

    Pre-tax earnings

    Service
    $
    2,305
     
    $
    2,995
     
    $
    3,047

    (23.0
    )%
     
    (1.7
    )%

    Retailing
     
    1,395

    1,726

    1,724

    (19.2
    )
     
    0.1

    Pilot
     
    614

    968

    —

    (36.6
    )

    McLane
     
    634

    455

    271

    39.3

    67.9

    $
    4,948
     
    $
    6,144
     
    $
    5,042

    Pre-tax earnings as a percentage of revenues

    Service
     
    11.1
    %
     
    14.5
    %
     
    16.0
    %

    Retailing
     
    7.3
    %
     
    8.9
    %
     
    8.9
    %

    Pilot
     
    1.3
    %
     
    1.9
    %

    McLane
     
    1.2
    %
     
    0.9
    %
     
    0.5
    %

Service 

Our service group consists of several businesses. The largest of these businesses are NetJets and FlightSafety (aviation services), which offer shared ownership programs for general aviation aircraft and high technology training products and services to operators of aircraft, and TTI, a distributor of electronics components. Our other service businesses franchise and service a network of quick service restaurants (Dairy Queen), lease transportation equipment (XTRA) and furniture (CORT), provide third party logistics services that primarily serve the petroleum and chemical industries (Charter Brokerage), distribute electronic news, multimedia and regulatory filings (Business Wire), provide various facilities construction management services (IPS-Integrated Project Services, LLC (IPS)) and operate a television station in Miami, Florida (WPLG). McLane, which we view as a service business, is