Blue Chip Stamps

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4	Revenues
5	Candy				$31,377	$35,780	$42,907	$51,342	$56,333	$62,886	$73,653	$87,314	$97,715	$112,578	$123,662
6	Newspapers									31,786
7	Stamp service	124,180			88,736	51,375	25,564	20,361	17,208	15,723	16,531	15,967	16,672	15,619	9,203
8	Merchandise promotion					6,261	11,022	15,210	8,888	2,485	3,791	2,310	2,771	1,446	1,351
9	Other (primarily dividends)				12,210	8,803	9,872	5,731	5,893	4,293
10	Operating earnings				8,108	8,190	7,508	9,045	11,780	12,893	13,553	14,303	16,564	20,895	22,241
11	Net income after security gains				7,101	8,005	8,665	9,053	11,703	16,993	14,280	15,526	20,389	27,626	45,342
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13	Assets
14	Cash & short-term investments				$4,196	$3,013	$1,506	$26,727	$14,162	$16,559
15	Marketable securities				144,601	132,743	77,541	56,712	63,143	53,010
16	Inventories				13,114	10,355	11,767	7,295	6,493	7,332
17	PP&E				10,785	10,454	8,273	8,290	8,417	40,414
18	Wesco Financial Corp.					17,446	26,307	28,588	38,661	43,892
19	Excess of cost over equity in subs				16,741	16,314	15,883	15,487	15,128	15,439
20	Other assets				10,287	9,895	12,218	22,356	21,133	23,460
21	Liabilities and Equity
22	Unredeemed trading stamps (float)				$93,351	$78,776	$72,183	$71,135	$66,867	$66,209	$66,832	$67,524	$64,053	$64,262	$60,240
23	Note payable to bank				28,755	41,881				13,500
24	6 3/4% sub debentures due 1978				10,840	8,672	6,512	6,392	4,287	2,168
25	Other liabilities				13,653	11,004	7,491	17,787	9,995	18,978
26	Equity		43,000		53,125	59,887	67,309	70,141	85,988	99,251			146,000	169,000	218,000
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28	Berkshire Hathaway ownership		Dec-70	Dec-71	Dec-72	Dec-73	Dec-74	Dec-75	Dec-76	Dec-77	Dec-78	Dec-79	Dec-80	Dec-81	Dec-82	Jan-83
29	% of outstanding Blue Chip shares		6.00%	17.00%	17.00%	19.00%	25.60%	25.60%	33.20%	36.50%					59.60%	100.00%
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