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Ariella is wife of Eitan Wertheimer (CEO of Iscar ltd.)
Sorry for my poor english translation. "The difference between a firm and start up a business is like the difference between having sex and start a family," said Eitan Wertheimer, Iscar Metalworking president in an interview with Haaretz. "It's very similar, only it takes longer to raise a family." ---- Specialist says earthquake in Japan created "buying opportunity" Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said the earthquake record of Japan is a buying opportunity and will not sell its shares in the country because their future does not change as a result of the quake. Buffett this week canceled a trip to Japan to visit a factory belonging to Tungaloy Corp., Cos Meltalworking Iscar. In Fukushima Prefecture, where the reactor was damaged by the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, and Theatre of the worst nuclear disaster in 25 years. Berkshire Hathaway Inc, Buffett owns 80% of Iscar, a maker of cutting tools. "If I were Japanese stocks, certainly would not be sold due to the events of the last 10 days or so," Buffett said, speaking to reporters on the South Korean city of Daegu, where he arrived yesterday to attend a ceremony for a new factory being built by TaeguTec Ltd. "Something as unexpected as this, an extraordinary event, really creates a buying opportunity," he said. The Nikkei 225 average in Japan fell 12% since March 10, the eve of the earthquake of magnitude 9. The U.S. market is closed Monday for a public holiday. Eitan Wertheimer, Iscar's chairman, said sales could fall in Japan after Tungaloy suspended work at its plant in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, and evacuated most of the 1,400 employees of the local chapter amid leak radiation from the nuclear plant of Tokyo Electric Power Co. "DO NOT CHANGE THE FUTURE" "Take time to rebuild, but not change the future, Japan's economic future," said Buffett, chairman and chief executive of Berkshire. South Korea is a "hunting" for acquisitions, he said, prefer larger companies. Berkshire has spent more than U.S. $ 35,000 million for purchases in the last two years. "We are willing to invest, and basically the bigger the better," said billionaire investor for 80 years. "Big companies attract and Korea I have a number of large companies obviously, so it's a hunting ground." Buffett, whose largest acquisition outside the United States was the purchase of Iscar in 2006, is traveling in South Korea and India to visit Berkshire businesses and seek opportunities. Iscar was bought for U.S. $ 4,000 million. In September he visited China. Buffett traveled to Europe in 2008, visiting Germany, Italy, Spain and Switzerland, where he praised as a buyer Berkshire attractive to family businesses whose executives might want to maintain business functions built for them. That trip was organized by Angelo Moratti, an Italian area of ??executive power, and Wertheimer. The growth of Berkshire Buffett was to focus more on business as producers of electricity and railways, which require sustained investment in infrastructure and equipment. Last year, Berkshire announced $ 13,000 million net income and spent $ 6,000 million in property and equipment. Has received at least U.S. $ 2,250 million in dividends since its purchase Burlington Northern in February 2010. ---- Specialist says earthquake in Japan created "buying opportunity" Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said the earthquake record of Japan is a buying opportunity and will not sell its shares in the country because their future does not change as a result of the quake. Buffett this week canceled a trip to Japan to visit a factory belonging to Tungaloy Corp., Cos Meltalworking Iscar. In Fukushima Prefecture, where the reactor was damaged by the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, and Theatre of the worst nuclear disaster in 25 years. Berkshire Hathaway Inc, Buffett owns 80% of Iscar, a maker of cutting tools. "If I were Japanese stocks, certainly would not be sold due to the events of the last 10 days or so," Buffett said, speaking to reporters on the South Korean city of Daegu, where he arrived yesterday to attend a ceremony for a new factory being built by TaeguTec Ltd. "Something as unexpected as this, an extraordinary event, really creates a buying opportunity," he said. The Nikkei 225 average in Japan fell 12% since March 10, the eve of the earthquake of magnitude 9. The U.S. market is closed Monday for a public holiday. Eitan Wertheimer, Iscar's chairman, said sales could fall in Japan after Tungaloy suspended work at its plant in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, and evacuated most of the 1,400 employees of the local chapter amid leak radiation from the nuclear plant of Tokyo Electric Power Co. "DO NOT CHANGE THE FUTURE" "Take time to rebuild, but not change the future, Japan's economic future," said Buffett, chairman and chief executive of Berkshire. South Korea is a "hunting" for acquisitions, he said, prefer larger companies. Berkshire has spent more than U.S. $ 35,000 million for purchases in the last two years. "We are willing to invest, and basically the bigger the better," said billionaire investor for 80 years. "Big companies attract and Korea I have a number of large companies obviously, so it's a hunting ground." Buffett, whose largest acquisition outside the United States was the purchase of Iscar in 2006, is traveling in South Korea and India to visit Berkshire businesses and seek opportunities. Iscar was bought for U.S. $ 4,000 million. In September he visited China. Buffett traveled to Europe in 2008, visiting Germany, Italy, Spain and Switzerland, where he praised as a buyer Berkshire attractive to family businesses whose executives might want to maintain business functions built for them. That trip was organized by Angelo Moratti, an Italian area of ??executive power, and Wertheimer. The growth of Berkshire Buffett was to focus more on business as producers of electricity and railways, which require sustained investment in infrastructure and equipment. Last year, Berkshire announced $ 13,000 million net income and spent $ 6,000 million in property and equipment. Has received at least U.S. $ 2,250 million in dividends since its purchase Burlington Northern in February 2010. -> Created for Eitan, Ariella Wertheimer |
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