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" ... It’s been available in Texas markets for two years, and won a couple of awards along the way. But the pandemic scotched, so to speak, a planned national launch this spring in concert with marketing-savvy arthouse theater chain Alamo Drafthouse. That would have featured not only the trailers, but positioning with Alamo’s weekly screenings of classic Westerns, and live tastings. ... "
" ... The cofounders claim in their fraud suit against Bosarge that they built the company while he “was completely disinterested in what was going on at Quantlab as long as it was keeping his yachts afloat.” They’re attempting to gain control of the company, or alternatively, to get their money out. Incessant competition from the likes of Citadel Securities and Virtu gradually eroded Quantlab’s edge. Eames and Omeltchenko say Bosarge scotched a $1.7 billion offer for the company in 2016 (he was looking for more like $3 billion) and then “effectuated a tyrannical coup” that forced them out. ... "
" ... The family owns about 20% of Thai Union, which was founded by Kraisorn and his brother Cheng Nirruttinanon in 1977 in Thailand’s coastal Samut Sakhon province. Thiraphong, now 53, took the helm at Thai Union from his father in 1995. The company was then canning tuna for other companies’ brands. As it grew in size, Thai Union bought them: in 2014, it paid $866 million for France’s MW Brands, in doing so gaining popular European brands John West, Petit Navire, Parmentier and Mareblu. The same year, it bought Norway’s King Oscar. U.S. regulators scotched its bid in 2015 to buy Bumble Bee. In the decade since 2008, Thai Union has almost doubled revenues, while net profit climbed 28%. ... "
" ... You have to give the man credit for pushing automotive technology that some day will be necessary. Sure, the genesis of the electric-car idea occurred during a time when it appeared the planet was running out of oil. Fracking and other new exploration and drilling techniques have scotched the peak-oil notion, at least for now. ... "