Business failures, costly decisions and the lessons they leave behind.
The full archive, in the appMacquarie Media lost 100+ advertisers and a running $3M EBITDA hit after Alan Jones' on-air attack on Jacinda Ardern, and ordered a full review of the show.
Read the caseLatitude shelved its second float in two years after investors balked at the price and a pitch dressed a boring, profitable lender as a BNPL star.
Read the caseKitchen Culture fired CEO Lim Wee Li over 'grave misconduct', lodged a police report on $520,000 of payroll irregularities, and drew an SGX order.
Read the caseThree years into a five-year plan to add £500 million of profit, the B&Q owner was forecast to go backwards — and pulled out of three markets.
Read the caseWeeks before its IPO, Kakao Games softened one line in Guardian Tales; a gamer boycott dropped it from 5th to 24th on Google Play in a day.
Read the caseEndeavour Industries fell into administration after an olive-farm flop, unused land and no NDIS plan — 131 workers lost jobs, 13 residents their homes.
Read the caseDirectors of Crown Perth's Burswood Limited said they first learned of the Riverbank account — allegedly used for laundering — from media reports.
Read the caseColes quietly raised the price of 20 products it had promised to keep 'locked', and offered refunds after consumer group Choice complained to the ACCC.
Read the caseDixons Carphone shut Carphone Warehouse's 81 Irish stores weeks after Vodafone stopped selling through the chain; footfall had fallen more than 40% in a year.
Read the caseSingapore's Autobahn stacked S$300M of group debt on a 1,700-car PHC fleet; its two directors are now bankrupt and face forgery charges.
Read the caseA network of dummy companies, inflated quotes and a fabricated 2014 audit report won AIC the Bac Lieu contract — and prison for its boss.
Read the caseThe Zug conglomerate tied to Uzbekistan's ruling family paid for diamonds and footballers; EY gave clean opinions for 2005-2007 and now faces a $1B suit.
Read the caseArgentina's YPF signed a 10-year, US$1.1bn LNG deal priced at $10.5/MMBTU, then cancelled when prices hit $3.50 — the real cost reached US$259mn.
Read the caseThe 73-year-old Ballymena bus builder — family covering losses for over a year — collapsed in September 2019 as diesel-to-electric transition slowed UK orders.
Read the caseRain wrecked the site and videos of mud, long queues and parking chaos flooded the festival's own page — day two of the R$250 million event was called off.
Read the caseSoutheast Insurance and Thai Insurance sold 300-baht Covid policies paying 50,000 baht — then Delta and Omicron claims pushed them to cease operations.
Read the caseTelstra's 'AI' assistant couldn't tell the name Paris from the city, looped on questions and blocked transfers — one customer asked for a human 15 times.
Read the caseThe 'smart way to retire' took $18.5M from elderly Australians, then collapsed — with 38 more families signed up via Silverlink after ASIC's stop order.
Read the caseA February whistleblower report on falsified international e-commerce parcel data ended in December with SingPost firing three senior executives at once.
Read the caseRene Benko's €27 billion property and retail empire entered self-administration in December 2023, leaving half-finished landmarks across Europe.
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