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Marmon Group is an American industrial holding company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Founded by Jay Pritzker and Robert Pritzker in 1953 (as Colson Corporation), it has been held by the Berkshire Hathaway group since 2013.
Marmon Holdings, or Marmon Group, is a holding company made up of more than 100 industrial companies. It was founded in 1953 by Jay Pritzker and Robert Pritzker in Chicago, where its headquarters ...
TransUnion soon began acquiring credit information and information management companies as a second major investment. The Marmon Group acquired TransUnion in 1981, spinning off the TransUnion name and the financial portion of the holding company to Madison Dearborn Partners in the 1990s. Union Tank Car Company is still owned by Marmon, which in ...
Marmon Group: Diversified Holding Company 99% 2008 [43] [44] $4.5 Billion McLane Company: Logistics 100% 2003/05/23 [45] $1.45 Billion [46] Medical Protective: Liability Insurance 100% 2005/06/30 [47] [48] MiTek Materials and Construction 90% 2001/06/12 [49] Other 10% owned by MiTek management National Indemnity Company: Insurance and Finance ...
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The new company was called Marmon-Herrington. In the early 1960s, Marmon-Herrington was purchased by the Pritzker family and became a member of an association of companies which eventually adopted the name The Marmon Group. In 2007, the Pritzker family sold a major part of the Group to Warren Buffett's firm Berkshire Hathaway. [10]
The Marmon-Herrington Company, Inc. is an American manufacturer of axles and transfer cases for trucks and other vehicles. [1] Earlier, the company built military vehicles and some tanks during World War II, and until the late 1950s or early 1960s was a manufacturer of trucks and trolley buses.
In 2008, Berkshire Hathaway acquired 60% Marmon Group, a conglomerate owned by the Pritzker family for over fifty years that owned and operated companies that produce railroad tank cars, shopping carts, plumbing pipes, metal fasteners, wiring and water treatment products used in residential construction. Berkshire acquired the remainder of ...