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Argentina's sportswear giant rode one licence for 34 years; when Adidas left, $340M of debt stayed — and workers answered with 'Ocupar, resistir y producir'.
Lire le casParis price-comparison pioneer bought at the top of the shopping boom, parked inside a distracted Yahoo, and written down ~80% in four years.
Lire le casIndian stockbroker Ketan Parekh rigged ten obscure stocks through circular trading, borrowed from a bank he directed, and triggered a market crash.
Lire le casA deposition revealed racial slurs; within a week Food Network, Smithfield, Target and Caesars cut Deen deals, and ~$12.5M of income was gone.
Lire le casA TV sting caught the OSI unit using expired meat and faking dates. Its biggest customers cut ties in days; ten people were charged, and the fines held.
Lire le casSEBI raided India's fastest-growing fund house over suspected front-running; Quant called it routine, then had to admit it was a court-approved search.
Lire le casDVG's chief executive signed away two units for VND215.8 billion and bought 84% of another firm — all before the shareholders' assembly ever voted.
Lire le casAfter Sarah Burton left, the brand's creative direction faltered, its store network ballooned, and sneakers became 80% of sales. Revenue fell 60%.
Lire le casGionee was once a top-10 Chinese phone brand. Founder Liu Lirong lost over $144M gambling. The company filed for bankruptcy with $2.9B in debt.
Lire le casBic repackaged its standard Cristal pen in pink and purple, called it 'Bic for Her.' The internet did the rest.
Lire le casSangamo built its value on partnership revenue from big pharma; when Novartis, Biogen and Pfizer left, revenue collapsed and it filed Chapter 11.
Lire le casOcean Empire ran 30+ congee shops for 33 years. May 7, 2025: all outlets shut overnight. 80-130 staff owed HK$8M. HK$570K pensions unpaid.
Lire le casJuventus paid €100M and ~€30M a year for a player to win the Champions League; he scored 101 goals, won five trophies — and they never reached a final.
Lire le casBilibili's server rooms failed at peak hour on 13 July 2021, darkening the app worldwide; its premium-membership 'sorry' then silently re-enabled auto-renewal.
Lire le casGermany's Herstatt Bank lost DEM 470 million ($200M) on currency speculation and collapsed — creating the term 'Herstatt risk' for settlement failure.
Lire le casBuy the pink pandoro, help a children's hospital, the campaign implied. The hospital's €50k had been donated months earlier; Ferragni's firms took over €1M.
Lire le casHamad airport missed its December 2012 opening after lounge firm LDI defaulted; Qatar Airways claimed $600m and the airport finally opened in May 2014.
Lire le casItaly's most prestigious publisher financed its grand works on bank credit; on 29 December 1983 the Turin court declared it insolvent.
Lire le casA researcher said ~110M MobiKwik users' data was for sale online in 2021. MobiKwik denied it and threatened legal action; the RBI ordered a forensic audit.
Lire le casKraft's marketing panel picked a tech-sounding name for Australia's national spread; the backlash was so loud the name was gone within a week.
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