While the video below dates from six years ago, it remains surprising fresh and shockingly undiscovered:
Interestingly, I didn’t discover Don Braid or Mainfreight. Instead, all the way from New Zealand, they discovered me.
I made an investment into a tiny freight-forwarder, then known as Target Logistics (financials), more than a decade ago. Much to my surprise, Don Braid opportunistically grabbed what I believed to be a long-term compounder. I woke up to this headline on September 17, 2007.
Learning more about Mainfreight in the subsequent years has been a sheer delight. Key milestones from this journey:
- Thanks to the power of the internet, there’s a (growing) collection of annual meeting videos available for casual review.
- There’s no better way to understand what makes Mainfreight so unique than to delve directly into the primary source materials:
- About Mainfreight
- 2016 Annual Report
- 2015 Annual Report
- 2014 Annual Report
- 2013 Annual Report
- 2012 Annual Report
- 2011 Annual Report
- 2010 Annual Report
- 2009 Annual Report
- 2008 Annual Report
- 2007 Annual Report
- 2006 Annual Report
- 2005 Annual Report
- 2004 Annual Report
- 2003 Annual Report
- 2002 Annual Report
- 2001 Annual Report
- About Mainfreight
- For a wonderfully detailed history see this Kindle eBook released in 2013.
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About The Author: Shai Dardashti
Shai Dardashti is Managing Director of North America for The Manual of Ideas and ValueConferences. He previously served as Managing Member of Dardashti Capital Management from 2006 until 2015. An avid poker enthusiast, Shai has placed as a finalist in the Success Academy Texas Hold'Em Tournament. Shai holds a BA in Finance from the University of Maryland. He splits his time between Haiti, New York, and Israel. Shai and his wife call New York City home.
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