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Yanjiyou expanded on flagship stores built to be destinations. COVID crushed traffic, and the flagships that built the brand became the debt that sank it.
Lire le casIreland bought thousands of Nedap e-voting machines before anyone certified them, used them in one election, and scrapped the lot at scrap value.
Lire le casHowie Hubler shorted $2B in subprime correctly, then sold insurance on $16B in AAA CDOs with the same mortgages — losing $9B, the largest ever at the time.
Lire le casIn four days Netflix cut Kevin Spacey from House of Cards and shelved a finished film; its next earnings disclosed a $39M charge.
Lire le casAn overheating European data center forced Wikipedia to fail over to Florida; the switch broke DNS resolution for every Wikimedia project worldwide.
Lire le casA ceramics-and-property shell renamed itself after P2P, added 101% in 21 days, and got its controller China's biggest-ever securities fine — ¥3.47 billion.
Lire le casKorek's chair corrupted Iraq's telecom regulator into voiding Orange and Agility's $810M stake; an ICC tribunal found the bribery and charged $1.65B.
Lire le casWatsons China oversold a 1-cent mask sale, and when buyers asked why on its livestream, the host compared them to mad dogs and bragged about kicking them out.
Lire le casTakahiro Miyashita founded TheSoloist in 2010 and left it in July 2025, after the 15th year. On 30 April 2026 the brand's Aoyama flagship closed.
Lire le casSuzuki certified 26 models and 2.14 million cars without the legally required coastdown test; made to redo it, every car beat its filed figure.
Lire le casRanjit Chandra fabricated infant formula and multivitamin studies, used a pseudonym to publish a confirming paper, and lost his Order of Canada.
Lire le casJapan's fast-fashion EC mall peaked in 2021, then lost ground three years running. In February 2025 CROOZ sold it to Seoul's MEDIQUITOUS, waiving ¥311M of debt.
Lire le casDi'ai IPO'd in December 2021 on one rule: a man may buy one DR engagement ring in his life. Three years on, revenue had fallen by two-thirds.
Lire le casCCI found India's top OTA imposed price parity, deep discounts and exclusivity on hotels — and delisted rivals for OYO — fining both a combined Rs 392 crore.
Lire le casIn 2008, Tata Motors paid $2.3B for Jaguar Land Rover as Ford bled cash. Analysts said Tata overpaid for broken brands. JLR became Tata's most valuable asset.
Lire le casWeeks after its IPO, Zomato's celebrity ads praising delivery partners were mocked as tone-deaf, and its 'well-intentioned' defence was called a non-apology.
Lire le casTEB-1 carried 300 passengers over 300 metres in Qinhuangdao. Five cities signed pilot deals. Within a year the prototype was scrap and 32 were investigated.
Lire le casSanjeev Gupta's metals empire ran on Greensill's 'prospective receivables' financing and lost roughly $5 billion overnight when Greensill collapsed.
Lire le casBrussels blocked Airtours buying First Choice fearing collective dominance, lost in court in 2002, and in 2007 cleared the same consolidation anyway.
Lire le casA netizen's comparison showed Orion snacks cost more in China than Korea. The company denied it, but the damage was done — and sales never recovered.
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