We're checking in on the business of food and how it gets to you.

Motley Full analyst Osset Sharma. I'm Dylan Lewis and I'm joined over the airwaves by Motley Fool analyst

Ossit Sharma. Osset, thanks for joining me today. Hey Dylan good to be here.

We've got a rundown on the biggest IPO of 2024 and fresh results from McDonald's.

We'll start with the big debut.

Osset, 2024's largest public offering dropped last week,

but I'm guessing a lot of investors missed it kind of an under the radar

company cold storage and logistics operator lineage they raised 4.5 billion on its way

to a 20 billion dollar. I think we're going to have to dig into

this one a little bit for listeners. What exactly does lineage do?

So Dylan, lineage owns temperature controlled warehouses and it centers on the refrigerated food industry,

the logistics of getting food from basically a cold point to your refrigerator or your freezer.

It also serves the pharmaceutical industry,

and this is a roll-up.

For those of you who are familiar with that term,

it's basically grown by acquisition.

Started by two interesting youngish founders, Adam Forstay and Kevin Marchetti.

And really their idea was to go into an industry which hadn't seen a lot of efficiency and modernize the logistics of moving food.

It's so interesting to me because we've been dealing with this problem for centuries. Cato the elder

Dylan had a treatise on agricultural methods to preserve food. Rome was on the ancient silk route and you can track these ancient writings about keeping food cold using snow from mountains, etc.

We come to today things haven't changed that much. This is still an

industry which is going to be around for a long time. The question is can you make money

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