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AMCON Distributing Company was incorporated in Delaware in 1986 and our common stock is listed on NYSE American under the symbol “DIT.” The Company operates two business segments ●Our wholesale distribution segment (“Wholesale Segment”) distributes consumer products and provides a full range of programs and services to our customers that are focused on helping them manage their business and increase their profitability. We serve customers in 26 states and primarily operate in the Central, Rocky Mountain, and Mid-South regions of the United States. ●Our retail health food segment (“Retail Segment”) operates twenty-one health food retail stores located throughout the Midwest and Florida
11-09-2020 |
Mr. Andrew C. Plummer
President AMCON Distributing Company 7405 Irvington Road Omaha, NE 68122 United States 402-331-3727 http://www.amcon.com NYSE Stock Symbol DIT |
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Ballantyne Strong, Inc. (“Ballantyne Strong”, the “Company”, “us” or “we”), a Delaware corporation established in 1932, is a holding company with business operations in the entertainment industry and investments in public and privately held companies. Ballantyne Strong went public in 1995 and our shares are traded on the NYSE American market under the symbol “BTN.” Our website is www.ballantynestrong.com.The Company conducts its operations primarily through its Strong Entertainment operating segment. We also operate our Digital Ignition technology incubator and co-working facility in Alpharetta, Georgia. In addition, we hold minority investment positions in one privately held company and two publicly traded companies. The Company’s strategic plan contemplates a combination of: ●Investing in the operations and growth of our existing businesses; ●Evaluating opportunities to maximize value by monetizing investments in our existing businesses; and ●Investing in public companies, private companies or in other areas. 3-10-2021
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Mr. Daniel Kyle Cerminara
Chairman Ballantyne Strong, Inc 11422 Miracle Hills Drive Suite 300 Omaha, NE 68154 United States 402-453-4444 www.ballantynestrong.com NYSE Stock Symbol BTN |
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Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (“Berkshire,” “Company” or “Registrant”) is a holding company owning subsidiaries engaged in a large number of diverse business activities. The most important of these are insurance businesses conducted on both a primary basis and a reinsurance basis, a freight rail transportation business and a group of utility and energy generation and distribution businesses. Berkshire also owns and operates numerous other businesses engaged in a variety of activities, as identified herein. Berkshire is domiciled in the state of Delaware, and its corporate headquarters is in Omaha, Nebraska. Berkshire’s operating businesses are managed on an unusually decentralized basis. There are few centralized or integrated business functions. Berkshire’s corporate senior management team participates in and is ultimately responsible for significant capital allocation decisions, investment activities and the selection of the Chief Executive to head each of the operating businesses.
Berkshire’s senior management is also responsible for establishing and monitoring Berkshire’s corporate governance practices, including monitoring governance efforts, including those at the operating businesses, and participating in the resolution of governance-related issues as needed. Berkshire’s Board of Directors is responsible for assuring an appropriate successor to the Chief Executive Officer. The Berkshire Code of Business Conduct and Ethics emphasizes, among other things, the commitment to ethics and compliance with the law and provides basic standards for ethical and legal behavior of its employees. Berkshire and its consolidated subsidiaries employed approximately 360,000 people worldwide at the end of 2020. Human capital and resources are an integral and essential component of Berkshire’s businesses. Consistent with Berkshire’s decentralized management philosophy, Berkshire’s operating businesses establish specific policies and practices for their businesses concerning the attraction and retention of personnel within the organizations. Such policies and practices generally address, among other things: maintaining a safe work environment for employees, customers and other business partners, offering competitive compensation to employees, including health insurance and retirement benefits and incentives, providing learning and career development opportunities, and hiring practices intended to identify qualified candidates and promote diversity and inclusion in the workforce. 3-01-2021 |
Mr. Warren E. Buffett
Chairman Berkshire Hathaway Inc 3555 Farnam Street Omaha, NE 68131 United States 402-346-1400 http://www.berkshirehathaway.com NYSE Stock Symbol BRK-B |
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Offering a unique mix of high-quality, on-trend apparel, accessories, and footwear, the Buckle caters to style-conscious young men and women who seek to express their individuality through fashion. Reflecting the Buckle's focus on helping guests find their favorite jeans, the store carries a wide selection of fits, styles, and finishes from leading denim brands, including BKE, Lucky Brand, Guess, MEK, Silver Jeans, Big Star, and Miss Me. Complementing its strength in denim, the Buckle also carries lifestyle brands Quiksilver, Roxy, Affliction, Manchester, Obey, Billabong, and Fossil, among others.
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Mr. Dennis H. Nelson
CEO The Buckle, Inc 2407 West 24th Street Kearney, NE 68845 United States 308-236-8491 http://www.buckle.com NYSE Stock Symbol BKE |
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Green Plains is an Iowa corporation, founded in June 2004 as a producer of low carbon fuels and has grown to be one of the leading corn processors in the world. We continue the transition from a commodity-processing business to a value-add agricultural technology company focused on creating additional diverse, non-cyclical, higher margin feed ingredients, specialty alcohols and renewable feedstocks for the emerging renewable diesel industry. In addition, we are currently undergoing a number of project initiatives to improve our operating margins. Through our Project 24 initiative, we anticipate reductions in operating expense per gallon across our non-ICM plants. USP upgrades and planned GNS upgrades are expected to provide additional improvements to our financial results. Additionally, through our Ultra-High Protein initiative, we expect to produce various Ultra-High Protein and novel feed ingredients targeting the pet, dairy and aquaculture industries further increasing margin per gallon. We recently completed the purchase of a majority interest in Fluid Quip Technologies, LLC. The acquisition capitalizes on the core strengths of each company to develop and implement proven, value-added agriculture, food and industrial biotechnology systems and rapidly expand installation and production across Green Plains facilities, as well as offer these technologies to partnering biofuel facilities.
2-16-2021 |
Mr. Todd A. Becker
CEO Green Plains Inc 1811 Aksarben Drive Omaha, NE 68106 United States 402-884-8700 http://www.gpreinc.com Nasdaq Stock Symbol GPRE |
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Lindsay Corporation, along with its subsidiaries (collectively called “Lindsay” or the “Company”), is a global leader in providing a variety of proprietary water management and road infrastructure products and services. The Company has been involved in the manufacture and distribution of agricultural irrigation equipment since 1955 and has grown from a regional company to an international water efficiency solutions and highway infrastructure firm with worldwide sales and distribution. Lindsay, a Delaware corporation, maintains its corporate offices in Omaha, Nebraska. The Company has operations which are categorized into two major reporting segments, Irrigation and Infrastructure.Irrigation Segment – The Company’s irrigation segment includes the manufacture and marketing of center pivot, lateral move, and hose reel irrigation systems which are used principally in the agricultural industry to increase or stabilize crop production while conserving water, energy and labor. The irrigation segment also manufactures and markets repair and replacement parts for its irrigation systems and controls. The Company continues to strengthen irrigation product offerings through innovative technology such as Global Positioning System (“GPS”) positioning and guidance, variable rate irrigation, wireless irrigation management, irrigation scheduling, machine-to-machine (“M2M”) communication technology solutions and smartphone applications. The Company’s primary domestic irrigation manufacturing facilities are located in Lindsay, Nebraska and Olathe, Kansas. Internationally, the Company has production operations in Brazil, France, China, Turkey, and South Africa, as well as distribution and sales operations in the Netherlands, Australia, and New Zealand. The Company also exports equipment from the U.S. to other international markets. Infrastructure Segment – The Company’s infrastructure segment includes the manufacture and marketing of moveable barriers, specialty barriers, crash cushions and end terminals, road marking and road safety equipment, large diameter steel tubing, and railroad signals and structures. The infrastructure segment also provides outsourced manufacturing and production services. The principal infrastructure manufacturing facilities are located in Rio Vista, California; Milan, Italy; and Lindsay, Nebraska.
10-22-2020 |
Mr. Timothy L. Hassinger
CEO Lindsay Corporation 18135 Burke Street Suite 100 Omaha, NE 68022 United States 402-829-6800 http://www.lindsay.com NYSE Stock Symbol LNN |
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Our purpose is to establish human understanding. Our solutions enable health care organizations to understand what matters most to each person they serve. We are a leading provider of analytics and insights that facilitate measurement and improvement of the patient and employee experience while also increasing patient engagement and customer loyalty for healthcare organizations. Our heritage, proprietary methods, and holistic approach enable our partners to better understand the people they care for and design experiences that inspire loyalty and trust, while also facilitating regulatory compliance and the shift to population-based health management. Our ability to measure what matters most and systematically capture, analyze and deliver insights based on self-reported information from patients, families and consumers is critical in today’s healthcare market. We believe that access to and analysis of our extensive consumer-driven information is becoming more valuable as healthcare providers increasingly need to more deeply understand and engage the people they serve to build customer loyalty.
3-05-2021 |
Mr. Michael D. Hays
CEO National Research Corporation 1245 Q Street Lincoln, NE 68508 United States 402-475-2525 http://nrchealth.com Nasdaq Stock Symbol NRC |
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Nelnet is a diverse company with a purpose to serve others and a vision to make customers' dreams possible by delivering customer focused products and services. The largest operating businesses engage in loan servicing and education technology, services, and payment processing, and the Company also has a significant investment in communications. A significant portion of the Company's revenue is net interest income earned on a portfolio of federally insured student loans. The Company also makes investments to further diversify both within and outside of its historical core education-related businesses, including, but not limited to, investments in real estate, early-stage and emerging growth companies, and renewable energy. Substantially all revenue from external customers is earned, and all long-lived assets are located, in the United States.
2-25-2021 |
Mr. Jeffrey R. Noordhoek
CEO Nelnet, Inc 121 South 13th Street Suite 100 Lincoln, NE 68508 United States 402-458-2370 http://www.nelnet.com NYSE Stock Symbol NNI |
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Union Pacific Railroad Company is the principal operating company of Union Pacific Corporation. One of America's most recognized companies, Union Pacific Railroad Company connects 23 states in the western two-thirds of the country by rail, providing a critical link in the global supply chain. The Railroad’s diversified business mix includes Bulk, Industrial, and Premium. Union Pacific serves many of the fastest-growing U.S. population centers, operates from all major West Coast and Gulf Coast ports to eastern gateways, connects with Canada's rail systems, and is the only railroad serving all six major Mexico gateways. Union Pacific provides value to its roughly 10,000 customers by delivering products in a safe, reliable, fuel-efficient, and environmentally responsible manner.
2-05-2021 |
Mr. Lance M. Fritz
Chairman Union Pacific Corporation 1400 Douglas Street Omaha, NE 68179 United States 402-544-5000 http://www.up.com NYSE Stock Symbol UNP |
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We are a diversified producer of products and services for infrastructure and agriculture markets. We were founded in 1946, went public in 1968 and our shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange (ticker: VMI). The Company operates and reports its results in the following four reporting segments:
•Engineered Support Structures (ESS); •Utility Support Structures (Utility); •Coatings; and •Irrigation Our ESS segment offers solutions to help make roadways safer, infrastructure smarter, and increases connectivity through the following products: outdoor lighting, traffic control, and roadway safety structures, wireless communication structures and components, and engineered access systems. Our Utility segment helps deliver power with products to better harden grids to make infrastructure more resilient by selling structures to support electrical transmission, distribution lines, and substation conversion and storage. Our Irrigation segment produces mechanized irrigation equipment and related services to help deliver water, fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides to agricultural crop that save time, conserve water, energy, and other input costs while also assisting in increasing yields. This segment also develops technology for better precision application including predictive, autonomous crop management. Our Coatings segment provides coatings services for Valmont and other industrial customers, to assist in extending the lifespan of infrastructure. Customers and end-users of our products include municipalities and government entities globally, manufacturers of commercial lighting fixtures (OEM), contractors, telecommunications and utility companies, and large farming operations, as well as the general manufacturing sector. In 2020, approximately 32% of our net sales were either sold in markets or produced by our manufacturing plants outside of North America. 2-24-2021 |
Mr. Stephen G. Kaniewski
CEO Valmont Industries, Inc One Valmont Plaza Omaha, NE 68154 United States 402-963-1000 http://www.valmont.com NYSE Stock Symbol VMI |
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We are a transportation and logistics company engaged primarily in transporting truckload shipments of general commodities in both interstate and intrastate commerce. We also provide logistics services through our Werner Logistics segment. We believe we are one of the largest truckload carriers in the United States (based on total operating revenues), and our headquarters are located in Omaha, Nebraska, near the geographic center of our truckload service area. We were founded in 1956 by Clarence L. Werner, who started the business with one truck at the age of 19 and serves as our Chairman. We were incorporated in the State of Nebraska in September 1982 and completed our initial public offering in June 1986 with a fleet of 632 trucks as of February 1986. At the end of 2020, our Truckload Transportation Services (“TTS”) segment had a fleet of 7,830 trucks, of which 7,390 were company-operated and 440 were owned and operated by independent contractors. Our Werner Logistics division operated an additional 31 intermodal drayage trucks at the end of 2020.
2-24-2021 |
Mr. Derek J. Leathers
CEO Werner Enterprises, Inc 14507 Frontier Road Omaha, NE 68138 United States 402-895-6640 http://www.werner.com Nasdaq Stock Symbol WERN |