Chery's best-selling sedan topped China's 315 complaint list for quality defects
The Arrizo 8 sold 156,000 units in 2024 but led the Wuhan 315 Auto Expo complaint ranking with infotainment crashes, noises and leaks.
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3,222 PUBLISHED CASES · REGULARLY UPDATEDIKEA's Romanian furniture deals secretly paid the Securitate, declassified files revealed
A scheme codenamed Scandinavica funnelled six-figure payments to Ceaușescu's secret police through overbilling on IKEA contracts.
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The luxury brand's 2024 By The Pool collection featured a design nearly identical to the Romanian 'ie' blouse, without credit.
Read the caseStarbucks Malaysia's operator lost RM292M as the Gaza boycott cratered its business
Berjaya Food's record net loss of 292 million ringgit showed how a geopolitical conflict can destroy a franchise operator
Read the caseNIO cut prices by ¥81,200 on the ES8 — and loyal owners demanded compensation
A price cut that slashed the new ES8 to ¥416,800 made existing owners report up to ¥170,000 in lost value in eight months
Read the caseSailormen put 136 Popeyes restaurants into Chapter 11 after a failed sale
The franchisee tried to sell 16 Georgia restaurants to ease its debt, but the deal collapsed and left it carrying the leases into bankruptcy.
Read the caseFipola planned 250 meat shops after reaching 65 — then funding dried up and stores shut
The South Indian meat retailer paired physical stores with delivery and pursued a fourfold expansion. By February 2023 it was liquidating assets to pay dues.
Read the caseLopia sold 645,994 food packs with incomplete labels across 74 stores
For up to three years, 18 repacked foods omitted origins or ingredients. Japan's agriculture ministry ordered a chain-wide compliance repair.
Read the caseMinistop stores falsified food expiry dates to reduce waste — halting sales at 1,784 shops
Expiry labels were altered at 25 franchise stores, sometimes extending shelf life by 14 hours. Ministop suspended fresh-food sales nationwide.
Read the caseNetflix's Korea price hike made rivals look generous
Netflix raised Korean plan prices by up to 27% and immediately drew backlash for asking more while competitors held steady.
Read the caseOPPO's Mother's Day copy turned into a public apology
OPPO posted a Mother's Day line about a mother with 'two husbands,' then apologized and pulled the post after backlash.
Read the caseTelefónica met its targets — then Latin America write-offs erased the profit
Telefónica reported €41.3B of 2024 revenue, but Argentina, Chile and Peru impairments helped turn the year into a €49M loss.
Read the caseChery's Fengyun X3L failed its Tianmen Mountain stair stunt and hit the guardrail
Chery sent the Fengyun X3L up Tianmen Mountain's 999-step stairway, then watched it slip backward into the scenic-area barrier.
Read the case2U bought edX for $800M, then used Chapter 11 to cut its debt in half
2U paid $800M for edX to scale online degrees. Three years later it entered Chapter 11 and went private after a debt swap.
Read the caseTeladoc bought Livongo to own virtual care, then took a $13.4B goodwill hit
Teladoc framed Livongo as a whole-person care platform. Two years later it booked a $13.4B goodwill impairment and lost $13.7B.
Read the caseAllianz Life's CRM vendor door exposed most of its 1.4M customers
A social-engineering attack reached a third-party cloud CRM, not Allianz Life's policy system, and still exposed most US customers.
Read the caseCarrefour angered Brazil's beef suppliers by snubbing South American meat
A France-facing pledge about Mercosur beef bounced back into Brazil, where suppliers briefly stopped deliveries to Carrefour stores.
Read the caseKotobuki Foods sold imported school-lunch meat as domestic until inspectors opened the box
Kotobuki Foods labeled foreign pork and chicken as domestic for school lunches. An unannounced school-board inspection exposed 1,770 kg of mislabeled meat.
Read the caseTongcheng Shenghuo collapsed after its community-group-buying model ran out of cash
The community-buying startup filed for bankruptcy after a rapid expansion burned through funding and left suppliers unpaid.
Read the caseHino Motors faked emissions data for 19 years — $1.6B fine and lost independence
Hino falsified emissions data for nearly two decades, triggering a $1.6B U.S. fine and a forced merger that erased its standalone identity.
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