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Nebraska Furniture Mart is a Furniture company heaquartered in Omaha, Nebraska . It was founded by Entrepreneur Rose Blumkin (nicknamed Mrs. B in store ads), in 1937 . She worked in the business until age 103, even after selling it to investment guru Warren Buffett and his Berkshire Hathaway Corporation in the 1980s . The store in Omaha is now in three large buildings. The "branch" located in Kansas City, Kansas is one of the largest furniture stores in the region, as the nearest major competition is American Furniture Warehouse , located in Colorado . In the early 1990's, the company opened the NFM Mega Mart, which sold computers and software, music, videos, and small electronics as well as TV's and appliances. The NFM Mega Mart was in a new building located just west of the main store in Omaha . A few years ago, the NFM Mega Mart name was discontinued and the building is now signed like any other building on the Nebraska Furniture Mart campus. The product mix from NFM Mega Mart is still sold in this building. Nebraska Furniture Mart also owns Homemakers Furniture in Urbandale, Iowa , a suburb of Des Moines . Homemakers itself has a branch store in Altoona, Iowa , which is advertised as a factory outlet store. In addition to the Homemakers division, Nebraska Furniture Mart has a branch store in the Des Moines suburb of Clive, Iowa which sells appliances only. |
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