{"id":3570,"date":"2026-05-02T02:09:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T02:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/05\/02\/berkshire-hathaway-meeting-sees-thinner-crowds-as-greg-abel-takes-center-stage\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T02:09:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T02:09:21","slug":"berkshire-hathaway-meeting-sees-thinner-crowds-as-greg-abel-takes-center-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/2026\/05\/02\/berkshire-hathaway-meeting-sees-thinner-crowds-as-greg-abel-takes-center-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Berkshire Hathaway Meeting Sees Thinner Crowds as Greg Abel Takes Center Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Berkshire Hathaway&#8217;s annual shareholder meeting saw lighter attendance at its &#8220;Bazaar of Bargains&#8221; this year, signaling a shift in focus to new CEO Greg Abel. Abel actively engaged with attendees, visiting every booth and shaking hands with shareholders. The event still featured popular merchandise from Berkshire subsidiaries like See&#8217;s Candies and Jazwares (Squishmallows).<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;font-style: normal;font-weight: bold\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/05\/01\/berkshire-hathaway-annual-meeting-new-era-warren-buffett-off-center-stage.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">READ MORE FROM CNBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berkshire Hathaway&#8217;s annual shareholder meeting saw lighter attendance at its &#8220;Bazaar of Bargains&#8221; this year, signaling a shift in focus to new CEO Greg Abel. Abel actively engaged with attendees, visiting every booth and shaking hands with shareholders. The event still featured popular merchandise from Berkshire subsidiaries like See&#8217;s Candies and Jazwares (Squishmallows). READ MORE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/images\/2026\/05\/01\/squishmallow-display-at-the-berkshire-hathaway-annual-shareholders-meeting-in-omaha-nebraska-may-1-2026.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,29,31,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","category-global-affairs","category-technology","category-travel","rifnote_country-canada","rifnote_country-usa","rifnote_executive-greg-abel","rifnote_executive-jeremy-padawer","rifnote_executive-warren-buffett"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/images\/2026\/05\/01\/squishmallow-display-at-the-berkshire-hathaway-annual-shareholders-meeting-in-omaha-nebraska-may-1-2026.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echeloncreativemedia.com\/marketvows\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}