Falcondo scrapped its Loma Miranda mine bid as its current ore runs out in five years
The Dominican nickel miner revived a forest mine the senate had tried to turn into a national park — and withdrew the permit within weeks of the outcry.
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2,000 VERÖFFENTLICHTE FÄLLE · REGELMÄSSIG AKTUALISIERTIger made Chapek Disney CEO and stayed as his boss — the board fired Chapek in 2022
Bob Iger's succession design — a hand-picked heir reporting to the outgoing legend — collapsed in under three years, and Iger took the job back.
Fall lesenCurastory's founder quit as CEO under an SEC settlement over inflated metrics
The SEC said the creator-monetization startup overstated revenue and client numbers to investors; the founder took a 10-year fundraising bar and stepped aside.
Fall lesenCognizant quit content moderation — giving up $250M a year rather than fix it
After a year of Verge investigations into PTSD and abusive conditions at its moderation sites, Cognizant walked away from the whole business.
Fall lesenCarrefour Brasil closed 123 stores and posted a R$795M loss in the Big cleanup
The Grupo Big restructuring turned Carrefour Brasil's R$1.73B 2022 profit into a R$795M 2023 loss, with 123 unprofitable stores shut or slated for closure.
Fall lesenBradesco's anti-meat post drove ranchers to close their accounts
A Bradesco video of influencers urging less meat consumption sparked account cancellations across Brazil's cattle sector — pulled in under four hours.
Fall lesenBerkshire bought the Big Four airlines against Buffett's own advice — and sold at a loss
Buffett bought the Big Four US airlines in 2016 betting on growth and buybacks, then called it a 'mistake' and sold all four at a loss in April 2020.
Fall lesenAmazon burned up to $200M a month on diapers to crush Quidsi, then shut it
House committee emails showed Amazon's diaper price war was aimed at diapers.com; Quidsi sold in 2010 and Amazon shut the site in 2017.
Fall lesenToshiba colluded with METI to strong-arm foreign shareholders — its own directors revolted
A probe found Toshiba worked with Japan's trade ministry to 'beat up' activist investors — then four of its independent directors demanded a shake-up.
Fall lesenSupie's audacious bid to break NZ's supermarket duopoly ran out of money
The online grocer folded with $4.3M in creditor claims; an investor says breaking the duopoly takes 'a couple of hundred million dollars'.
Fall lesenSports Direct claimed key-worker status to stay open in lockdown — reversed within a day
Told its fitness gear made staff 'key workers' during the UK lockdown, Sports Direct flipped within 24 hours after a public backlash.
Fall lesenSpace Value HD restated ¥550M of overstated profit after ex-president's orders
An investigation found Space Value HD overstated net profit by ¥550M across FY2014–2018, with its former president directing the hotel accounting
Fall lesenSoul Machines raised $225M for premium AI avatars, then folded owing $19.6M
Anchor customers Mercedes-Benz, ANZ and Air New Zealand all left before cheaper generative AI made the avatar maker's premium pricing untenable.
Fall lesenSaint Augustine's signed a land deal with a developer now charged with federal fraud
The Raleigh HBCU's land-lease deal with sports developer 50 Plus 1 died at the state attorney general — its owner now faces federal fraud charges.
Fall lesenPurmil's heir CEO avoided new products as the dairy slid into liquidation
Sales fell from ₩257.5B in 2017 to ₩180B as rivals pushed new products; the union said CEO Shin Dong-hwan was 'only interested in collecting toy figurines'.
Fall lesenIkinari Steak's breakneck expansion ended in 114 store closures and a fire sale
Pepper Food Service shut 114 Ikinari Steak stores, cut 200 jobs and handed Pepper Lunch to a fund after a founder-driven expansion nobody could stop.
Fall lesenOpenshop: Hyundai's $45m Australian home-shopping bet folded in two years
Hyundai Home Shopping's Australian channel went into administration two years after launch, owing its Korean parent $12m and Seven West Media $1m.
Fall lesenOnuma's employee-led buyout of a 320-year-old department store lasted ten months
Yamagata's Onuma department store filed for bankruptcy ten months after employees and a local sponsor took control, unable to fix its cost base
Fall lesenIBK staff issued ₩88.2B in improper loans — and the bank sat on the finding
An FSS audit found 51 improper loans by 20-plus people from 2017 to 2024; the regulator also accused IBK of concealing what its own probe had found.
Fall lesenGoogle was ordered to halt work at two Finnish data centers pending environmental review
A month after pledging $15bn for Finland, Google was told to stop tree felling and excavation at two sites until environmental reviews were done.
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