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Crowd Cow
Crowd Cow is an American online food ordering, online meat delivery marketplace. It connects fisheries and ranchers who raise livestock with consumers who want to buy meat. Based in Seattle, Crowd Cow was founded in 2015 by Joe Heitzeberg and Ethan Lowry. The company initially shipped beef to customers and later expanded their offerings to include chicken, pork, lamb, and seafood. Crowd Cow provides customers with background about the ranches from which it sources its meat. The company markets its meat as following the sustainable agriculture principles and for ethical treatment of farm animals. It sells grass-fed and grass-finished beef and the ranchers it sources from do not use hormones or superfluous antibiotic use in livestock, antibiotics. Crowd Cow began importing Japanese A5 Wagyu beef in 2017. It received criticism for importing Wagyu beef from Japan while American beef ranchers had challenges competing with foreign producers. The company raised $25million from investors, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Privately Held Company
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in the respective listed markets, but rather the company's stock is offered, owned, traded, exchanged privately, or Over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter. In the case of a closed corporation, there are a relatively small number of shareholders or company members. Related terms are closely-held corporation, unquoted company, and unlisted company. Though less visible than their public company, publicly traded counterparts, private companies have major importance in the world's economy. In 2008, the 441 list of largest private non-governmental companies by revenue, largest private companies in the United States accounted for ($1.8 trillion) in revenues and employed 6.2 million people, according to ''Forbes''. In 2005, using a substantially smaller pool size (22.7%) for comparison, the 339 companies on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
