Avantor is like Thermo Fisher in some respects. It distributes lab products and sells bioprocessing tools. It, too, was built through transformative M&A. It even has an analog to PPI – the kaizen-based continuous improvement framework Thermo Fisher adopted from Danaher – in the form of the Avantor Business System. But sadly, these surface similarities […]
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[AVTR] Avantor
[AVTR] a poor man’s Thermo Fisher
December 22, 2025
Avantor is like Thermo Fisher in some respects. It distributes lab products and sells bioprocessing [...]
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Survey results + programming notes
December 19, 2025
Hi everyone – on Monday, I’ll share some thoughts on Avantor in my final post [...]
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[scuttlebit] Shift4’s organic growth
December 10, 2025
Last week, a reader and Shift4 shareholder messaged me, raising questions about the company’s organic [...]
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Booz Allen and the business of defense – part 2
December 8, 2025
I left Part 1 with the observation that, starting in earnest around a decade ago, [...]
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Booz Allen and the business of defense – part 1
December 1, 2025
MBI and I recorded an episode of Never Sell recently (Serial Acquirer ROIC, Fiserv Debacle and Management Credibility, [...]
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