Berkshire Hathaway is the world's richest-company-by-market-cap example that retains the Hathaway textile name in its title.
Berkshire Hathaway is a holding company whose name combines Berkshire Fine Spinning Associates and Hathaway Manufacturing Company. Those textile businesses merged in 1955, but the textile operations later declined.
Warren Buffett began buying Berkshire Hathaway shares in the 1960s and eventually transformed the company into a diversified holding company. Its businesses and investments have included insurance, railroads, utilities, manufacturing, retail, and publicly traded securities.
The name can mislead readers into expecting a textile company. Berkshire's modern identity is principally associated with insurance operations, especially its large reinsurance and property-and-casualty businesses, and with disciplined capital allocation across many industries.