Barratts: three administrations in five years, and the family kept buying it back
The Bradford shoe chain treated administration as a recurring reset until 2013, when the rescue equity vanished and only a rival's bid for 14 stores remained.
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2,000 게시된 사례 · 정기 업데이트Microsoft paid $425M for WebTV's 56,000 subscribers — and the service never scaled
Microsoft bought WebTV for $425M when it had 56,000 subscribers; sixteen years later the service was shut down having never passed a million.
사례 읽기Religare's chair sold stock ahead of the Burman offer — SEBI clawed back ₹1.99 crore
Chairperson Rashmi Saluja sold ₹34.7 crore of Religare shares two days after a takeover dinner; SEBI ordered ₹1.99 crore disgorgement and a ₹40 lakh fine.
사례 읽기TRAI made Jio and Airtel disclose the limits behind 'unlimited 5G' in 2023
TRAI cleared Jio and Airtel of predatory pricing but made them state that 'unlimited 5G' has limits — Airtel set a 300GB monthly commercial-use threshold.
사례 읽기VyStar shipped a banking platform its QA refused to sign off — 850,000 members paid
VyStar downgraded 135 critical defects to launch its banking platform on time; the app went dark for a month and full features took seven months to return.
사례 읽기LightSquared: a $4B 4G network built on a spectrum license the FCC took back
Harbinger bet $4B on a 4G network over satellite spectrum. When the FCC moved to suspend its license, LightSquared filed Chapter 11 four months later.
사례 읽기Doctissimo ran health quizzes with no consent and MD5 passwords — CNIL fined it €380K
France's best-known health site quizzed users about cancer and endometriosis without consent, stored passwords in obsolete MD5 and served pages over HTTP.
사례 읽기PharmEasy auto-renewed ₹99 memberships without consent — CCPA fined it ₹2 lakh
India's top online pharmacy charged thousands for a ₹99 membership they never knowingly bought, then called it a technical glitch. The regulator didn't buy it.
사례 읽기Dukaan replaced 90% of its support staff with AI — then bragged about it publicly
Dukaan's CEO tweeted the layoff like a victory lap. The internet called it tone-deaf, and a paying customer said the bot drove him to cancel.
사례 읽기Heinz made green, purple and blue ketchup — kids loved it, parents did not
Heinz launched EZ Squirt colored ketchup in 2000: green, purple, pink, orange, teal and blue. By 2006 it was gone.
사례 읽기The 'Monster Study' told orphans they had stutters — and some never recovered
Iowa researchers told 12 orphans their speech was defective when it was not. The study was suppressed. In 2007, subjects won $925,000.
사례 읽기Amway India ran its global MLM in a market that made it a crime — CEO jailed two months
India's money-circulation law made Amway's standard MLM a crime: the CEO spent two months in jail, and the ED later alleged ₹4,050 crore in proceeds of crime
사례 읽기Tiger Woods's Dubai course promised a 2009 opening — his first design never opened at all
A Dh4bn 'world's first Tiger Woods design' with 22 palaces and an Elie Saab hotel: work stopped at three holes in 2009 and no opening was ever announced.
사례 읽기HMRC's tax credits overpaid £2.2bn a year — and EDS refunded just £70m
Tax credits launched in 2003 on systems that 'did not work as intended'; overpayments hit £2.2bn a year and contractor EDS repaid just £70m.
사례 읽기Mauria Udyog: SEBI cracked a 226-entity pump-and-dump via food orders and flight logs
Five dead stocks were pumped for years with 2.1 crore bulk SMS and employee demats; SEBI's 394-page final order clawed back ₹143.79 crore.
사례 읽기Warner Bros fired TV's highest-paid sitcom star with eight episodes left to film
A studio ended its most profitable comedy star's services mid-season, then watched the show's ratings climb with his replacement.
사례 읽기Nidec's investigation found 850 quality violations — after its accounting scandal
The motor empire built by M&A could not keep its factories honest: 805 unauthorized design and process changes, most of them in three business units.
사례 읽기EnQuest's £4bn Kraken bet hit the 2015 crash: $1.1bn loss, 23p rescue, oil-linked coupons
North Sea producer EnQuest leveraged up for its first big development just as Brent halved — then agreed bond coupons payable in cash only above $65 oil.
사례 읽기BCCI's ten-year no-rival-league pledge to IPL broadcasters drew a Rs 52.24 crore CCI fine
CCI ruled a clause promising IPL broadcasters no rival T20 league for a decade was abuse of dominance, fining BCCI Rs 52.24 crore.
사례 읽기Tata sold its Nexon EV on a 312 km claim. Owners got 200 km — and courts made Tata pay
India's best-selling EV was sold on a lab-test 312 km figure. Owners got ~200 km, Delhi pulled its subsidy, and a court later ordered a full refund.
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