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[FOUR] Shift4

A tour through payments: part 3 (SQ, FOUR)

February 2, 2023

Block (SQ) I once argued how by taking the problem of merchant payments acceptance seriously, [...]

[ADYEN] Adyen N.V. [FIS] Fidelity National Information [FISV] Fiserv [GPN] Global Payments

A tour through payments: part 2 (Adyen, GPN, FIS, FISV)

January 16, 2023

Hi everyone, scuttleblurb is now on Substack (link). You don’t need to do anything. scuttleblurb [...]

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[MA] Mastercard [V] Visa

A tour through payments: part 1 (Visa and Mastercard)

December 22, 2022

This is my last post of the year. Before getting into it, here are some [...]

[SITE] SiteOne

[SITE] SiteOne Landscape Supply

November 28, 2022

SiteOne sources 135k landscaping SKUs from 5k suppliers and distributes to 280k customers, most of [...]

[VRSK] Verisk Analytics

November 28, 2022

One job of an insurance commissioner is to ensure that carriers under their jurisdiction have [...]

[ASHG] Ash Grove Cement, [MCEM] Monarch Cement, Quick Blurbs

[MCEM – Monarch Cement] Ash Grove Part Deux?

Posted on October 5, 2017October 6, 2017 by scuttleblurb

[MCEM – Monarch Cement] On Sept. 20, Ash Grove announced that it agreed to be acquired by its largest customer, CRH plc, a global producer of building materials cement with €27bn in sales and €3bn in EBITDA across 31 countries. [For background on Ash Grove, see these previous posts]. “While the final amount of the […]

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[ASHG] Ash Grove Cement

[ASHG – Ash Grove Cement] Cheap Stock or Value Trap?

Posted on July 14, 2017September 10, 2017 by scuttleblurb

“People always think more about how new ground can be broken than they think about how existing institutions can be sustained or existing facilities can be maintained. It leads to a constant trap where we underinvest in old things, then old things disappoint us, then we feel a need for new things, then to satisfy […]