Ultimate 2008 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting Guide
If you couldn’t make the 2008 Berkshire Hathaway (BRKa) (BRKb) annual meeting to experience Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger first hand, then I hope that the following guide can again offer the next best thing to being there in person.
We can kick off this year’s meeting with the press release and the Q1 quarterly report for Berkshire Hathaway.
I also got word of a Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting after party at Nomad Lounge.
Official Releases
- Berkshire Hathaway First Quarter Earnings 2008
- Berkshire Hathaway First Quarter Press Release
- Wesco Financial Corp. First Quarter Earnings 2008 Press Release
Premeeting Coverage
- Prepping for Warren Buffett: The Art of the Elevator Pitch (Videos)
- Live from Omaha: Berkshire Borsheims Party
- Cousin packages memories
- Few Rooms Left As Berkshire Weekend Begins – KETV Omaha
- Borsheim’s Braces For Berkshire – KETV Omaha
- Welcome to Omaha! A Berkshire Hathaway weekend preview – The Curious Capitalist
- Borsheims Shareholders Meeting website
Blog Posts
- Berkshire Shareholder for Klamath dam removal
- In Omaha at the Warren and Charlie Show – MoneyMasters with Vahan Janjigian
- 2008 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting – Updates from Omaha, Nebraska – Part I – Undervalued Securities.com
- 2008 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting – Updates from Omaha, Nebraska – Part II – Undervalued Securities.com
- Inside the meeting – Bill Mann at The Motely Fool
- Great quotes so far – Bill Mann at The Motely Fool
- More quotes – Bill Mann at The Motely Fool
- Last set – Bill Mann at The Motely Fool
- New! 2008 Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder Meeting: Detailed Notes – Reflections on Value Investing
- New! Scenes from an Annual Meeting – Jeff Matthews Is Not Making This Up
- New! 2008 Berkshire Hathaway weekend – ShoeMoney
Media Coverage
- See’s offers a sweet treat for Berkshire meet – Omaha World-Herald
- 1995 bio still the Wikipedia on Warren – Omaha World-Herald
- Warren Buffett eager to spread his life’s lessons to growing audience – Omaha World-Herald
- Buffett joins select company – Omaha World-Herald
- Warren Buffett to draw biggest crowd ever – Reuters
- Massive Crowds in Omaha for Big Berkshire Hathaway Weekend – Action 3 News
- Tribes, commercial fishermen plan to attend Berkshire Hathaway meeting to demand removal of PacifiCorp dams on Klamath – AP
- Portrait of Buffett will be painted early Saturday – AP
- Live Blog Archive: Warren Buffett’s Q&A With Shareholders – CNBC
- Live Blog: Warren Buffett’s Q&A With Shareholders (Part 2) – CNBC
- Berkshire Live: Updates from the annual meeting – Omaha World-Herald
- Woodstock for Capitalists 2008 Blog – Morningstar
- Capitalist Carnival-We’re LIVE IN OMAHA – FOX Business
- The Buffett Madness Has Begun! – FOX Business
- Stampede in Omaha!!! – FOX Business
- BRK Meeting Notes: What Buffett Is Saying – FOX Business
- More Buffett and Munger Nuggets – FOX Business
- FOX Biz Continues Live Blogging from the BRK Shareholder Meeting! – FOX Business
- Berkshire’s Moody’s Stake No Conflict, Buffett Says – Bloomberg
- Current crisis worse than Enron: Berkshire’s Munger – MarketWatch
- Berkshire’s muni insurer starts strongly: Buffett – MarketWatch
- Some banks are too big – MarketWatch
- Buffett cautions on long-term returns – MarketWatch
- Buffett sees euro, sterling strong against dollar – Reuters
- Buffett, gifts make it worth the trip from California – Omaha World-Herald
- Buffett faced a few challenges over past year – Omaha World-Herald
- Berkshire Hathaway: 31,000 show up at Qwest Center for annual meeting – Omaha World-Herald
- Notes and highlights from meeting – Omaha World-Herald
- Warren Buffett Speaks to Shareholders at Qwest – Action 3 News
- Buffett says Fed avoided chaos in Bear bailout – The Economic Times
- Buffett Says Credit Crisis Ebbs for Wall Street Firms – Bloomberg
- Buffett and Munger think holding the Olympics in China will be good – KPTM FOX 42
- Berkshire’s leaders offer tips on unhealthy living – KPTM FOX 42
- Buffett’s Bond Success – WSJ MarketBeat
- Buffett to investors: Think small – CNNMoney
- Berkshire Hathaway Holds $4 Billion of Auction-Rate Securities – Bloomberg
- Berkshire eyes German family-owned businesses – MarketWatch
- Crowds flock to Omaha sage – Times Online
- Buffett again rebuffs protesters who want Klamath dams out – NTV
- Live from Omaha: The Warren Buffett Show – Portfolio.com
- Buffett Says U.S. Dollar to Remain Weak Versus Other Currencies – Bloomberg
- Liveblogging the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting – The Curious Capitalist
- Berkshire to own 100% of Cologne Re – MarketWatch
- Buffett explains his purchase of Berkshire – Omaha World-Herald
- Buffett faced a few challenges over past year – Omaha World-Herald
- The 5 a.m. Buffett Breakfast Club – WSJ MarketBeat
- The Warren Buffett Show – WSJ MarketBeat
- Munger for President – WSJ MarketBeat
- Lucci for Chairman? – WSJ MarketBeat
- The Berkshire Method: Just Buy It – WSJ MarketBeat
- Buffett’s Straight-Talk Express – WSJ MarketBeat
- Buffett’s Dollar Talk – WSJ MarketBeat
- Buffett on Beijing Olympics – WSJ MarketBeat
- Buffett doesn’t see CDS market collapsing – Reuters
- Buffett eyes family-owned German businesses – Reuters
- Buffett says bought $4 bln of auction-rate debt – Reuters
- Buffett sees euro, sterling strong against dollar – Reuters
- Seven Hours With Warren – Forbes
- Earnings? What Earnings? – Portfolio.com
Photos
- Klamath River Protest
- Klamath River Protest 2
- Klamath River Protest 3
- Yurok tribal council member Richard Myers speaks
- Klamath Riverkeeper Regina Chichizola
- Borsheims Jewelry’s photostream
- Borsheims (Friday night party) – Buffett dollar
- Borsheims (Friday night party) – girl plays
- Borsheims (Friday night party) – shareholders smile
- Borsheims (Friday night party) – book
- Borsheims (Friday night party) – woman leaving
- Borsheims (Friday night party) – reading jewelry catalogue
- Kick-off celebration
- Outside the Borsheims jewellery store
- Inside Borsheims
- Shopping at Borsheims
- Shareholders playing cards
Videos
- Video of Borsheims jewelry – Omaha World-Herald
- Warren Buffett Talks to CNBC’s Becky Quick at Shareholders Meeting – CNBC
- Buffett on the Fed – Bloomberg
- The business of boxed chocolate – Time, The Curious Capitalist
- Buffett Business – ABC News
Please share links to your coverage of today’s events in the comments section below.
PS: Can someone pick me up a deck of the Berkshire ballsball like cards for charity that I heard about? I’ll pay for the cost and shipping.
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When is the 2009 annual meeting. How can I reserve a room? This would be my first.
Ellen Adelman
When is the 2009 annual meeting?? When and where can I make reservations?? Is it too early?? I really want to attend next year. HELP
Judy
I would think it would be safe to assume that the annual meeting would be the same weekend in May next year. I don’t believe however that there has been an official announcement of the exact date of the 2009 meeting. I’ll let you know here when I find out the exact date of next year’s Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders Meeting. If I remember correctly, the 2008 date was announced on the Berkshire Hathaway website sometime during the middle of the summer of 2007.
Please tell me the date of the 2009 meeting and the name of the hotel that is closest to the Annual Meeting place.
Please let us know when the 2009 Shareholders Annual Meeting is scheduled. We really are looking forward to attending in 2009. Many thanks.
Susan
There’s also a notable quotes edition from Berkshire and Wesco meetings at:
http://financialjoyride.blogspot.com/2008/05/quotable-quotes-warren-buffett-edition.html
I did not receive notice of the 2008 annual meeting until after it was too late to make plans to atend. Please tell me where and when the 2009 annual meeting will be held. How do I make reservations? Thank you. I am a relatively new brka-brkb shareholder.
Just like everyone else, I would love to find out when and where the 2009 annual meeting will be held?? any help as to how to determine this is greatly appreciated!
thanks!
Carol from NJ..a new shareholder!
Please tell me how to make reservations for accommodations and attending the 2009 Annual meeting.
Bev
Please tell me why you post questions at the bottom of the ‘Ultimate 2008 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting Guide’ page with no answer.
When is the 2009 meeting?
Thank you.
We’ll learn more about the date of the 2009 meeting later this summer. For now, practice being patient. It’s an important skill for value investing.
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The 2009 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting will be on May 2, 2009.
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Are shareholders allowed to bring a guest to the annual meeting? Can the guest attend all the same events? I am a new shareholder.
Great summary of the annual shareholder meeting! Are you planning on attending this year? I can’t wait to see how many people will show up. The trend has been very clear over the last few years as financial advisors and money managers more interested in luring new client assets than listening to the Oracle have swarmed Omaha. With many of these guys underwater or out of business, attendance could drop by a lot – not to mention to effects of the recession.
Please tell me what should be done in order to attend the meeting. Since I am for Europe I am not quite sure what is the procedure in the US. The first thing to do is to buy a share. And then should I obtain some sort of a record of ownership, or will there be complete shareholders list at the event and my ID would work for indentification? I would appreciate if someone could help me here.
Can I buy a share now and still be able to attend the annual meeting in May 2009 ? I see that they have class A and class B shares. Are class B share holders eligible for attending the meeting ?
How many stocks (A or, B) do I need to own to attend the party?
You only need 1 A or B share to attend. In fact, you can even attend without owning any shares by being invited as a guest of a shareholder or buying a ticket on eBay if Berkshire Hathaway sells tickets there again. They have the past few years.
Is registration needed to attend the meeting? What do you mean by ‘shares’?