G Capital Berkshire Hathaway and Company Picnic

Heinz: The annual tomato festival that was originally a company picnic, according to Hamilton Spectator. Most everyone has a family member who has worked at the century-old Heinz plant here. There is the tourist booth shaped like a giant tomato that was partly funded by Heinz in 1961. Residents feared the worst when a group of investors bought Heinz in 2013. But Leamington — and the plant — got a reprieve because, in part, of a quirk of Canadian law. The investors, 3G Capital and Berkshire Hathaway, Warren E. Buffett company, announced plans to close the plant and gave layoff notices to its 740 workers. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.