More on Buffett Buying Empire

Dear Client: As we first reported yesterday, a subsidiary of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has struck a deal to purchase Atlanta-based Empire Distributing, which has operations in Georgia and North Carolina. Empire is owned by brothers David and Michael Kahn. That subsidiary is grocery distributor McLane, worth $34 billion. Bill Anderson's First Beverage Group, including ex-GE Capital executive Sean McLaren, advised Empire on the deal.McLane provides grocery and foodservice supplies for thousands of c-stores, mass merchants, drug stores, military locations