This company owns many US corporations like Coca-cola, Dairy Queen, See's Candies, Gillette, Mars bar (the company that produces M&M, Mars etc) and many more. So during this shareholders meeting, there will also be roadshows and exhibitions set up by these various companies (see pictures).
The meeting is one full day. Started early in the morning at 8.30am to 5pm. The thing is, if you say Singaporeans are kia-su. Then people going to the meeting who are non-Singaporeans outbeat me. We went at 7.30am, thinking we must be crazily kia-su and got a shock. There was already a long queue and people are already queuing at the entrance to the convention hall as early as 6am. Despite the strong winds and cold weather. Last year, there were some crazy caucasians who started queuing at 5am and in the rain. Who say we're being kia-su? Btw, the convention hall can seat every single person attending.
The meeting itself is a full day of Q&A. And the world's richest man is indeed an intelligent man. Answering questions from anybody for hours straight. And that was the highlight for WF. For me, it was the exhibitions.
Days before the meeting and after the meeting, there are functions for shareholders to attend. There was the cocktail reception at Borsheims (the jewellery store that sold Bill Gates the engagement ring for Melinda Gates), BBQ at Nebraska Furniture Mart (US largest single furniture store) and shareholders dinner at Gorat's (Buffet's favourite steak house).
Of course, being first time, we attended these functions (except the BBQ) and we met some interesting people too.
Here are some pictures we took. Too bad, we can't take photos with Buffet even though we had an autograph session with him as we're international shareholders. But I've got his autography on my credentials. Yeah!
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