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See's Candies is a manufacturer and distributor of candy, particularly chocolates in the United States. It was founded by Charles See, his wife Florence, and his mother Mary in Los Angeles, California, in 1921. The company is now headquartered in South San Francisco, California.〔"(About Us )." ''See's Candies''. Retrieved on January 18, 2009.〕 See's kitchens are at its headquarters and at a second location in Los Angeles, where there are also retail shops. It also has an office in Carson, California.〔"(Contact Us )." ''See's Candies''. Retrieved on January 18, 2009.〕 The company largely markets its products in its own stores, those of fellow Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary Nebraska Furniture Mart, and via mail order catalog. See's candies are also available in some airports in the United States. See's Candies operates over 200 stores in the following U.S. states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, New Mexico, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wisconsin.〔(See's U.S. Shop locations ) ''See's Candies''. Retrieved on August 11, 2009.〕 There are also stores outside the U.S. in Hong Kong, Japan, and Macau.〔(See's International Shop locations ) ''See's Candies.'' Retrieved on November 4, 2009.〕 Seasonally — primarily during the year-end holiday shopping season — See's also offers its product in select markets in kiosks at malls and other shopping centers. See's also has an online store.〔http://www.sees.com/index.cfm/about_us〕 The company was purchased by Warren Buffett (via Blue Chip Stamps) for his Berkshire Hathaway Corporation in 1972. At a 1996 luncheon in San Francisco, Charlie Munger revealed that See's was the first high quality business that Berkshire ever bought. Previous to that point, Berkshire had focused on undervalued assets that could be bought cheap. The See's acquisition influenced their commitment to buying businesses with a strong reputation and brand recognition. ==History== According to the corporate website, Charles Alexander See II (1882–1949) arrived in the United States from Canada in 1921〔(See's Candies website )〕 with his wife Florence MacLean Wilson See (1885–1956), and his widowed mother Mary Wiseman See (1854–1939). Mary See had developed the recipes that became the foundation of the See's candy business while helping run her husband's hotel on Tremont Island in Ontario.〔(Mary ''Wiseman'' See, Find A Grave ).〕 The family opened the first See's Candies shop and kitchen at 135 North Western Avenue in Los Angeles in November 1921. They leased the shop from the French Canadian pioneer of Los Angeles, Amable Lamer.〔http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.lamer/1.2.3.4.6.8/mb.ashx〕 They had twelve shops by the mid-1920s and thirty shops during the Great Depression. In 1936 See's opened a shop in San Francisco. See's first white "all porcelain" store was opened in Bakersfield, California on May 1, 1941. In 1972 the See family sold the company to Berkshire Hathaway Inc.. Warren Buffett has called See's "the prototype of a dream business." (2007)〔Peter Bevelin (2012). ''A Few Lessons for Investors and Managers from Warren E. Buffett''. (PCA Publishing and Intermountain Books ).〕 On June 20, 2012, See's Candies made it into the Guinness Book of World Records for the world's largest lollipop, weighing and a length of and . The previous largest lollipop record stood at a hefty . This giant chocolate lollipop represented 145,000 standard-size See's lollipops. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「See's Candies」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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