Unternehmerische Misserfolge, teure Entscheidungen und ihre Lehren.
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Amorepacific's road-shop brand went from 13 Hong Kong stores in early 2022 to 5 in mid-2026, closing its Causeway Bay green-wall flagship along the way.
Fall lesenQueensland Health switched on IBM's new payroll in March 2010 with critical defects unresolved. Pay runs broke for months and the clean-up was priced at $1.2bn.
Fall lesenA Melbourne stock lender counted clients' shares twice and on-lent them to cover big clients — when markets fell it owed A$1 billion and was gone in a week.
Fall lesenCrypto exchanges poured money into Bollywood-backed ads in 2021, paused them after a PM meeting, then saw ASCI flag 419 of 453 as non-compliant.
Fall lesenAn intruder read a Docker Hub database holding GitHub/Bitbucket autobuild tokens for 190,000 accounts — under 5% of users, but the corporate ones.
Fall lesenReliance Infrastructure bought India's largest private shipyard for naval orders; debt sank it, and the winning rescue bidder took a year to pay its own bid.
Fall lesenThe bank sold insurance for years with no policyholder grievance channel, then proved compliance with screenshots of a portal that generated no acknowledgement.
Fall lesenBBK's music phones sold millions, but the brand was tied to learning machines. When smartphones arrived, the company killed its own name and started over.
Fall lesenMatilda Djerf's $35M fashion brand was hit by employee claims of bullying and body-shaming — customers returned orders and vowed never to buy again.
Fall lesenIn 1960, Reuben Mattus created a premium ice cream brand. He invented a Danish-sounding name that had no meaning. Häagen-Dazs became a billion-dollar brand.
Fall lesenScott Reuben never conducted the trials he published. He invented patients and forged co-authors — his faked data shaped post-surgery care for millions.
Fall lesenExposed on 3·15 for selling unsafe instant tripe. Compensation liability: ¥26.9B. The streamer claimed less than ¥300K in cash.
Fall lesenFrance's first private free channel never turned a profit. It filed in January 1992 and said goodbye live on 12 April — to its biggest audience ever.
Fall lesenCanada outsourced its COVID border app through a two-person recruiting firm and almost no paperwork; the auditor general could only estimate the final cost.
Fall lesenMP Company exported 11 containers of fake Nike and Air Jordan shoes to the US before a July 2026 raid found 25,396 finished pairs and more in production.
Fall lesenA lyric on someone else's song cost Rick Ross his Reebok deal — and a reported $3.5–5 million in endorsement income.
Fall lesenAn unattended steam valve boiled solvents out of an ink tank in a sealed building; the vapor explosion wrecked a neighborhood and destroyed the plant.
Fall lesenDebt-heavy retailer Mycal went under in September 2001 when its main bank cut support; rival Aeon rebuilt it, paid 30% on retail bonds, and absorbed it.
Fall lesenReliance shorted RPL futures through 12 agents and sold shares in the closing minutes; SEBI called it a ₹447-crore fraud — the top court called it hedging.
Fall lesenIn June 2018 Kogan raised prices on 621 products by at least 10%, then blasted 10 million customers with a 'TAXTIME' 10%-off promo. It was ruled misleading.
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