Getta Burger shut 14 of 17 stores rather than raise prices or cut quality
The Queensland chain absorbed soaring power, oil and packaging costs until 14 of 17 stores closed and 107 staff lost their jobs just before Christmas.
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2,000 CASOS PUBLICADOS · ACTUALIZADOS REGULARMENTEEY settled IBRC's Anglo Irish audit suit for a multimillion-euro sum
Anglo Irish Bank's liquidator sued EY for over €50m over missed 'bed-and-breakfast' loan shuffles; EY settled after 11 years, without admitting liability.
Leer el casoCo-op Bookshop, Australia's biggest co-op, went under owing suppliers $15M
The company behind the Co-op bookshop and Australian Geographic went into administration owing $15M — while a supplier owned by its CEO kept getting paid.
Leer el casoConagra's volume-first decade ended in a $1.92B loss and a halved dividend
After admitting its volume-versus-margin balance had skewed toward volume, Conagra booked $2.0B of impairments, lost $1.92B in a year and halved its dividend.
Leer el casoWorcester Warriors' auditor Bishop Fleming fined £124,250 for flawed audits
ICAEW severely reprimanded Worcester Warriors' auditor Bishop Fleming for failing to flag the club's debts before its 2022 collapse
Leer el casoRajiv Bajaj calls the 100-cc Discover his biggest blunder: it made Bajaj a 'me too'
Stretching the differentiated 125-cc Discover down to 100 cc turned a USP product into a 'me too' and left Bajaj stuck at No. 2, its MD admitted in 2018.
Leer el casoWesfarmers paid $230M for Catch, lost $347M more, and shut it down
The 2019 acquisition meant to teach Wesfarmers e-commerce instead ran $88M, $163M and $96M losses; in 2025 Kmart absorbed the warehouses.
Leer el casoWalmart paid $5.6M after checkout overcharges and short-weight groceries in California
Four California district attorneys documented shelf prices above register charges and underweight goods across 280 stores; Walmart settled for $5,639,801.92.
Leer el casoNepal cancels United Telecom's licence and moves on Rs 8.05bn in unpaid dues
UTL's basic telephone licence was automatically cancelled on September 5, 2026, and Nepal's regulator is seizing assets to recover Rs 8.052 billion in dues.
Leer el casoSocGen shut its Singapore commodity desk after lending US$240M to Hin Leong
Burned by oil trader Hin Leong's collapse, SocGen dismissed its Singapore trade-finance front office and pushed Asian coverage to Hong Kong.
Leer el casoShopee's Philippines ambassador pick put #ByeShopee atop Philippine Twitter
Naming a Marcos campaign host as brand ambassador made Shopee the Philippines' top Twitter trend — for a boycott, with about 340,000 tweets.
Leer el casoCBI booked Shakti Bhog Foods for a Rs 3,269 crore fraud on ten banks
The flour maker claimed Rs 3,000 crore of stock was pest-damaged; bank audits found warehouses fully stocked, insurance never claimed, and funds round-tripped.
Leer el casoSete Brasil's $25B drillship venture for Petrobras ended in bankruptcy
Created in 2010 to build 28 drillships for Petrobras, Sete Brasil never recovered from the Lava Jato corruption scheme and was declared bankrupt in 2024.
Leer el casoSchneider shed €15 billion in a day agreeing to pay $22.6 billion for PTC
The $205-a-share, 42.3% premium deal wiped €15 billion off Schneider's market value in one session — more than twice the premium itself.
Leer el casoPague Menos admits its digital checkout choked on GLP-1 pen demand in Q2
CEO Jonas Marques told analysts 'we made a mistake': a Vtex update broke checkout payment just as GLP-1 pen demand boomed, and the quarter's sales leaked away.
Leer el casoNodus Bank's chairman looted $23.6M from his own bank — 62 months
Juan Francisco Ramirez secretly routed bank funds through a Miami lender to himself, helping collapse the Puerto Rican bank; forfeits $13.6M.
Leer el casoMcDonald's Brazil named a burger McPicanha — it contained no picanha
Four regulators came asking, McDonald's pulled both McPicanha sandwiches nationwide, apologised for the name — and relaunched the burger under a new one.
Leer el casoKahf's 'different level' flag post put Indonesia above Malaysia — boycott followed
Kahf's Instagram joke ranking Indonesia above other countries went viral for the wrong reason: Malaysians cancelled orders and binned their products.
Leer el casoInfluencer Imvely apologised for moldy pumpkin juice — then deleted the complaints
The 848,000-follower fashion influencer's mall sold moldy juice, promised full refunds, and allegedly buried complaints — cover-up turned product into scandal.
Leer el casoGrosvenor Casinos paid £5M after AML lapses let crypto funds slip past checks
A Gambling Commission review found outdated AML controls, unexamined crypto source-of-funds and missed risk flags; Grosvenor settled with £5,012,261.
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