It made me check to see if it was a publicly listed company: it is not.
As it is not a publicly listed business, it is not subject to the scrutiny of its rivals.
Fonterra is a farmers' cooperative and is not publicly listed, but it trades nonvoting units as shares on the New Zealand and Australian stock markets.
At the end of 2014, I wrote here on Forbes, "Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) may not be the best role to opt for at the moment, at any publicly listed company". It doesn't look as if their prospects for a good night's sleep have improved at all since then.
In 2002, Xstrata became a publicly listed company after it acquired the Australian and South African coal assets of Glencore.
Under its proposal News Corp will take a 39% stake in a publicly listed Sky News, finance it for ten years and guarantee its editorial independence.
When the Norwegian parliament finally decided to make gender quotas mandatory for the boards of publicly listed companies in November 2003, it came as no big surprise.
Alistair Darling, the chancellor of the Exchequer, reaffirmed the government's goal of keeping RBS publicly listed on Thursday because it would be easier to repay taxpayers once the market recovered.
The publicly listed company now says it will be "retiring" both brands next week after successful consolidation and integration of their IP and resources, and concentrate all marketing efforts on the KIT digital brand.
Both companies are publicly listed and Zebra says it will be paying $6 per share in cash for Xplore, which works out to about $90 million — a premium on the company's current market cap of about $65 million.
