The decision to go public went against the grain in a hyper-competitive retail industry that has been rapidly consolidating through mergers and private buyouts.

FORBES: J. Crew Weighs Anchor

If their opponents are going to paint the Conservatives as Little-Englanders anyway, why shouldn't Mr Hague, feeling the grain of public opinion, decide to make a virtue of it?

ECONOMIST: Ready to rumble

Westminster will take the blame, and there will be calls for something called Plan MacB, the Scottish government's claim that it can go against the grain of public sector squeezing across Europe, loosen the purse strings, and get some growth back into the economy.

BBC: Budget challenge

Privately held Data Transmission Network of Omaha started in 1984 as a unit of grain giant Scoular and went public in 1987.

FORBES: Third time's a charm for this little data provider. Or is it?

Project volunteers say the first 110lb (50kg) of milled grain is not yet suitable for public consumption but they hope to see how good it tastes with some private baking.

BBC: Cumbria's Acorn Bank Mill grinds first flour for 70 years