Unternehmerische Misserfolge, teure Entscheidungen und ihre Lehren.
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The I Do brand behind China's wedding-diamond boom peaked at 715 stores; profit slid from ¥300M in 2017 to creditor-forced pre-restructuring in January 2023.
Fall lesenA smart-contract flaw let an attacker rewrite the 'keeper' role and drain $610M+ across Ethereum, BSC and Polygon — nearly all of it was later returned.
Fall lesenThai holding company More Return orchestrated a pump-and-dump that left 11 brokerages with 4.5 billion baht in losses and triggered a trading overhaul.
Fall lesenArla put 'net-zero climate footprint' on its dairy packaging, backed by offsets due 'in 100 years.' Sweden's Consumer Ombudsman sued; a court banned the claim.
Fall lesenTwo power failures in eight days took Rackspace's primary hosting facility offline and cost $2.5-3.5 million in service credits.
Fall lesenIt shut 89 stores in 2009 to placate Lloyds, but £190m of lease commitments outlived the rescue: JD Sports bought the rump for £20m in 2012.
Fall lesenThe auto-parts maker had four excuses for rejecting shipments — including flaws a full inspection would have caught — six years after its last rebuke.
Fall lesenZomato dressed veg-only riders in green so customers could spot them; India read it as caste signalling and the company scrapped the colour split overnight.
Fall lesenRecruit Career profiled job seekers' browsing data into offer-decline probabilities, then gave employers scores without proper consent.
Fall lesenPublic Eye tests found 2.7g of added sugar per serving in Indian Cerelac; in Switzerland the same product had none. Nestlé said it complies with local rules.
Fall lesenA 1986 immunology paper by Nobel laureate David Baltimore triggered a decade of investigations by MIT, NIH and Congress — in 1996 every charge was dismissed.
Fall lesenProduction had already been frozen since March 2023. In October, Mitsubishi handed the joint venture to GAC and took a ¥24.3B charge to leave.
Fall lesenAtelier de l'Eyrieux (ex-GL Bijoux), 85 staff in the Ardèche, filed receivership in Feb 2026 after activity fell 30%. July: sold to Orline, 40 of 76 jobs kept.
Fall lesenBoth of NSE's telecom links failed on 24 February 2021, halting India's largest exchange for four hours; it later paid ₹72.64 crore to settle SEBI's charges.
Fall lesenAIJ Investment Advisors, a Japanese asset manager, lost ¥130 billion ($1.6B) of pension money on volatility options — then hid the loss by falsifying reports.
Fall lesenAfter CSE found 10 of 13 Indian honey brands adulterated, Dabur and Marico spent two years accusing each other of fake purity claims at ASCI and in court.
Fall lesenEgypt's $4.45bn 'Suez Canal on rails' deal pledged Siemens trains by end-2023; the first Velaro entered pilot operation two years later.
Fall lesenIneos bought the label in 2017 and funded losses every year — £18.3M in 2023 alone. In August 2025 Ratcliffe handed it to Castore for a stake.
Fall lesenThe SAMR fined the academic database 5% of its 2021 revenue for exclusive dealing and unfair pricing against universities
Fall lesenJapan's most nostalgic candy was made by a firm that never raised its price. When inflation hit in 2022, the 114-year-old company closed within months.
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