Hathaway Mills

Hathaway Mills

In 1888, Horatio Hathaway, founded the Hathaway Manufacturing Company at New Bedford, Massachusetts for the production of cotton textiles. Hathaway had been a China trader, profiting from whaling in the Pacific.

By 1919, the Hathaway Mills would grow to contain 108,000 ring and mule spindles and 3,400 looms [Official American Textile Directory, 1917, Bragdon, Lord & Nagle Co., New York, publishers] for the production of fine cotton goods, for which the humid seaside location of New Bedford was well suited for.

In 1955, Hathaway merged with Berkshire Fine Spinning Associates of Adams, Massachusetts, and became known as Berkshire Hathaway.

By the 1960s, the Berkshire Hathaway had declined to seven plants and 6,000 people, but still annually produced one quarter of a billion yards of material that sold for more than $60 million. The assets, and a sizable amount of cash on the balance sheet, caught the eye of Warren Buffett, an up-and-coming but little-known investor from Omaha, Nebraska.

Buffett, who had founded Buffett Partnership Limited to make investments, started buying stock in Berkshire at $7.60 a share. He eventually paid an average of $14.86 a share, or a total of $14 million, and took control of the company on May 10, 1965. [ [http://www.projo.com/business/johnkostrzewa/projo_20060709_jk0709.13efc99.html Providence Journal Article July 10, 2006] ] In 1985, the last textile operations were shut down. Today, the huge mills are occupied by a variety of small companies.

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