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Berkshire After Buffett

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If there’s one thing Warren Buffett likes as much as making an acquisition, it’s having a deputy land a deal for his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and put some of his company’s huge cash pile to work.

In recent years, Berkshire’s McLane trucking unit expanded into wine-and-spirits distribution, and the Marmon manufacturing unit pursued takeovers in Europe. Just Thursday, the Clayton Homes subsidiary, known for making factory-built houses, announced the largest acquisition in its push into on-site homebuilding.