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Record W4411455484 · doi:10.1177/25166042251342844

Spur Tree Spices to Food

2025· article· en· W4411455484 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Paul Golding, Prince Graham Haynes, A.A. Sutherland

Bibliographic record

VenueEmerging Economies Cases Journal · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicCassava research and cyanide
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsChief executive officerDebtInitial public offeringBusinessRevenueEquity (law)OfficerDiasporaManagementPolitical scienceEconomicsFinanceLaw

Abstract

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Albert Bailey is the Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of Spur Tree Spices, a Jamaican company specializing in authentic Jamaican spices. The company, which started in 2006, targets the Jamaican diaspora in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada, and has grown steadily, growing revenues from J$290M in 2016 to J$701M in 2020, primarily from internal financing. Bailey wanted to expand into Jamaican foods, which would complement the spices. Bailey and his management team debated whether they should raise resources to fund the expansion through debt or equity initial public offering (IPO).

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.072
Threshold uncertainty score0.242

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0040.002
Open science0.0000.002
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0720.014

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.034
GPT teacher head0.268
Teacher spread0.235 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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