In Scottsville, Kentucky at the dawn of World War 2 the market for “selling the good stuff to rich folks” was already taken, so J. L. Turner and Sons sold “the cheap stuff to the poor folks” instead. For the first 16 years of its life, the budding enterprise trafficked in close-out merchandise, first as […]
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[AVTR] Avantor
[AVTR] a poor man’s Thermo Fisher
Avantor is like Thermo Fisher in some respects. It distributes lab products and sells bioprocessing [...]
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Survey results + programming notes
Hi everyone – on Monday, I’ll share some thoughts on Avantor in my final post [...]
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[scuttlebit] Shift4’s organic growth
Last week, a reader and Shift4 shareholder messaged me, raising questions about the company’s organic [...]
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Continue reading →[BAH] Booz Allen
Booz Allen and the business of defense – part 2
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
MBI and I recorded an episode of Never Sell recently (Serial Acquirer ROIC, Fiserv Debacle and Management Credibility, [...]
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