Article: Pasadena, Calif.-Based Financial Group Completes Stock Acquisition Offer.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

Feb. 21--A subsidiary of Omaha conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway Inc. said Friday that it has successfully completed a cash offer for the stock of a Fairfax, Va., furniture rental company and will complete the acquisition as soon as possible.

Wesco Financial Corp. of Pasadena, Calif., which is 80.1 percent owned by Berkshire, offered $28 for each of Cort Business Services Corp.'s 13.2 million shares of stock, or a total of $369.6 million. Counting stock options and $83 million in debt, the transaction is worth $467 million.

By the time Wesco's tender offer expired at midnight Thursday, 12.9 million Cort shares had been ...

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