Getta Burger shut 14 of 17 stores rather than raise prices or cut quality
The Queensland chain absorbed soaring power, oil and packaging costs until 14 of 17 stores closed and 107 staff lost their jobs just before Christmas.
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2,000 PUBLISHED CASES · REGULARLY UPDATEDEY settled IBRC's Anglo Irish audit suit for a multimillion-euro sum
Anglo Irish Bank's liquidator sued EY for over €50m over missed 'bed-and-breakfast' loan shuffles; EY settled after 11 years, without admitting liability.
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The company behind the Co-op bookshop and Australian Geographic went into administration owing $15M — while a supplier owned by its CEO kept getting paid.
Read the caseConagra's volume-first decade ended in a $1.92B loss and a halved dividend
After admitting its volume-versus-margin balance had skewed toward volume, Conagra booked $2.0B of impairments, lost $1.92B in a year and halved its dividend.
Read the caseWorcester Warriors' auditor Bishop Fleming fined £124,250 for flawed audits
ICAEW severely reprimanded Worcester Warriors' auditor Bishop Fleming for failing to flag the club's debts before its 2022 collapse
Read the caseRajiv Bajaj calls the 100-cc Discover his biggest blunder: it made Bajaj a 'me too'
Stretching the differentiated 125-cc Discover down to 100 cc turned a USP product into a 'me too' and left Bajaj stuck at No. 2, its MD admitted in 2018.
Read the caseWesfarmers paid $230M for Catch, lost $347M more, and shut it down
The 2019 acquisition meant to teach Wesfarmers e-commerce instead ran $88M, $163M and $96M losses; in 2025 Kmart absorbed the warehouses.
Read the caseWalmart paid $5.6M after checkout overcharges and short-weight groceries in California
Four California district attorneys documented shelf prices above register charges and underweight goods across 280 stores; Walmart settled for $5,639,801.92.
Read the caseNepal cancels United Telecom's licence and moves on Rs 8.05bn in unpaid dues
UTL's basic telephone licence was automatically cancelled on September 5, 2026, and Nepal's regulator is seizing assets to recover Rs 8.052 billion in dues.
Read the caseSocGen shut its Singapore commodity desk after lending US$240M to Hin Leong
Burned by oil trader Hin Leong's collapse, SocGen dismissed its Singapore trade-finance front office and pushed Asian coverage to Hong Kong.
Read the caseShopee's Philippines ambassador pick put #ByeShopee atop Philippine Twitter
Naming a Marcos campaign host as brand ambassador made Shopee the Philippines' top Twitter trend — for a boycott, with about 340,000 tweets.
Read the caseCBI booked Shakti Bhog Foods for a Rs 3,269 crore fraud on ten banks
The flour maker claimed Rs 3,000 crore of stock was pest-damaged; bank audits found warehouses fully stocked, insurance never claimed, and funds round-tripped.
Read the caseSete Brasil's $25B drillship venture for Petrobras ended in bankruptcy
Created in 2010 to build 28 drillships for Petrobras, Sete Brasil never recovered from the Lava Jato corruption scheme and was declared bankrupt in 2024.
Read the caseSchneider shed €15 billion in a day agreeing to pay $22.6 billion for PTC
The $205-a-share, 42.3% premium deal wiped €15 billion off Schneider's market value in one session — more than twice the premium itself.
Read the casePague Menos admits its digital checkout choked on GLP-1 pen demand in Q2
CEO Jonas Marques told analysts 'we made a mistake': a Vtex update broke checkout payment just as GLP-1 pen demand boomed, and the quarter's sales leaked away.
Read the caseNodus Bank's chairman looted $23.6M from his own bank — 62 months
Juan Francisco Ramirez secretly routed bank funds through a Miami lender to himself, helping collapse the Puerto Rican bank; forfeits $13.6M.
Read the caseMcDonald's Brazil named a burger McPicanha — it contained no picanha
Four regulators came asking, McDonald's pulled both McPicanha sandwiches nationwide, apologised for the name — and relaunched the burger under a new one.
Read the caseKahf's 'different level' flag post put Indonesia above Malaysia — boycott followed
Kahf's Instagram joke ranking Indonesia above other countries went viral for the wrong reason: Malaysians cancelled orders and binned their products.
Read the caseInfluencer Imvely apologised for moldy pumpkin juice — then deleted the complaints
The 848,000-follower fashion influencer's mall sold moldy juice, promised full refunds, and allegedly buried complaints — cover-up turned product into scandal.
Read the caseGrosvenor Casinos paid £5M after AML lapses let crypto funds slip past checks
A Gambling Commission review found outdated AML controls, unexamined crypto source-of-funds and missed risk flags; Grosvenor settled with £5,012,261.
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