Business failures, costly decisions and the lessons they leave behind.
The full archive, in the appGM announced in February 2020 it would retire Holden across Australia and New Zealand by 2021, axing about 600 jobs in a fragmented right-hand-drive market.
Read the caseRed ink and an 'endosocietal conflict' pushed Hoepli's majority into voluntary liquidation — while a 30% shareholder vowed to fight it and 90 workers struck.
Read the caseFourteen years of premium gourmet retail ended with Godrej selling Nature's Basket at Rs 300 crore against Rs 338 crore of sales and Rs 350 crore of losses.
Read the caseASIC moved to wind up Sanjeev Gupta's Liberty Bell Bay for not lodging financial statements for five years; a lender put it into administration.
Read the caseA lavish Opera House launch, millions paid to Hamish and Andy, mocked ads, 1.2 stars on Trustpilot: a candidate for Australia's worst product launch.
Read the caseThe 2012 listing outshone Facebook at debut — then 10 CEOs, RM3.3B of unprofitable bets and a US forced-labour ban took it off the market.
Read the caseThe FAI priced 10-year Aviva Stadium tickets at up to €32,000 in September 2008, then refused cuts for nearly three years as attendances collapsed.
Read the caseICAC heard subcontractors rigged NSW rail maintenance deals while Downer lost money on them; the board was gutted and break-up speculation followed.
Read the caseSão Paulo's TJ-SP unanimously decreed the bankruptcy of Coesa, the OAS spin-off left holding R$4.5bn of debts while sister company Metha kept the contracts.
Read the caseCitiraya Industries was paid to destroy chipmakers' scrap; its CEO sold it instead, made over US$51M, and spent 19 years as a fugitive.
Read the caseAustralia's biggest builder wrote down $1.8B, sold its Middle East JV for one dirham with a $130M injection, and hundreds of workers went unpaid.
Read the caseAt the royal commission, CBA's chair admitted executives got 100-108% bonuses in a year of CommInsure, fee and money-laundering scandals.
Read the caseAfter CEO Bompard pledged no Mercosur beef in France, Brazilian frigoríficos cut supplies to Carrefour Brasil — retracted within days with a letter of apology.
Read the caseThe veteran car-buying platform took buyers' deposits and full payments, told them the cars were ready, then entered administration without paying dealers.
Read the caseRSM found supplements sold to a distributor coming back, devices bought without board approval, and its chairman and a bank signatory held in Shanghai.
Read the caseAvex was meant to make Argentina a chicken-export platform. No export licences, no supplier network and a blocking rival later, BRF is selling it cheap.
Read the caseDelhi's Economic Offences Wing alleged Ashneer Grover, his wife and relatives syphoned funds from the fintech via fake HR consultancies and backdated invoices.
Read the caseWeeks after telling shareholders it would likely win, the state bank settled with NMC's administrators before the ADGM court could rule.
Read the caseTwelve acquisitions, debt tripling to €1.7 billion and a consumer pivot that drove away customers left the McDonald's bun supplier fighting to survive.
Read the caseIn a rare order, SEBI barred retired SBI official K.C. Raut from markets for six months and fined him ₹1.5 lakh over ARSS Infrastructure's misrepresented books.
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