'Licenziati sui social' — Mercatone Uno's 1,860 workers learned it from Facebook
Italy's furniture big-box died twice; the second time, in May 2019, stores shut overnight and the workforce read about it on the company's Facebook page.
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2,000 PUBLISHED CASES · REGULARLY UPDATEDPriced out by Chinese rivals, Tatung's Green Energy Technology collapsed in 2019
A Tatung Group solar subsidiary lost NT$7B in a year after Chinese overcapacity drove wafer prices below production cost — 72,000 shareholders lost everything.
Read the caseChairman-linked firm helped rig An Gia's stock with 92 accounts — SSC fined VND4.5B
Truong Giang, founded by An Gia's chairman, let a trader run two of its accounts in a 92-account ring that faked supply and demand in AGG shares for two years.
Read the caseYoo Ah-in's drug case ended his Nepa deal and two years of work
Nepa bet its outdoor brand on Korea's hottest actor. His drug case cost him the contract in 2023 and the courts sealed his sentence in July 2025.
Read the caseCairo's $4.5bn monorail: promised for 2022, opened 2026, $882M over budget
A three-year build signed in 2019 slipped to a 2026 opening as a missing budget line, COVID, and a dollar crunch added EGP 45bn in delay costs.
Read the caseSaudi Kayan: 24% over budget before startup, still refinancing debt in 2025
SABIC's Jubail flagship was conceived in 2003, ran 24% over budget, listed into losses in 2011 — and was still refinancing SAR 8.1bn of debt in 2025.
Read the caseInfogreffe stored 3.7M passwords in cleartext for 19 years — CNIL fined it €250,000
France's business registry capped passwords at 8 characters, emailed them in cleartext, and kept a million dormant accounts past its own 36-month limit.
Read the caseBritish Airways devalued Avios by up to 14% — and members did the maths
From 15 December 2025, reward flights cost 8–14% more Avios and up to 20% more in fees. BA blamed Air Passenger Duty; loyal members called it a soak.
Read the caseRoberto Cavalli ran seven months without a CEO — then its Swiss site and 80 jobs went
After Damac put the brand up for partnership and Marquee Brands took over, Ticino staff were told the Swiss company is closing: about 80 jobs face dismissal.
Read the caseKeurig Kold: a $370 soda machine that took five hours to make one 8-ounce drink
Green Mountain's $370 home soda maker died nine months after launch — too expensive, too slow, and nobody wanted soda at home.
Read the casePhysicist faked room-temp superconductivity — 5 retractions, thesis 21% plagiarized
Ranga Dias claimed a breakthrough that would change physics. The data was copied from a 2013 thesis. Five papers retracted, lab closed, company dissolved.
Read the caseA 7.9M-follower influencer opened a hotpot restaurant — it lost ¥1M in 10 months
Li Liangliang had 7.9M followers but her 800sqm Chongqing hotpot shop closed after 10 months. It was her second F&B failure — total losses across both: ~¥5M.
Read the caseADNOC scrapped Hail and Ghasha tenders mid-process; first gas slipped from 2025 to 2030
The ultra-sour Ghasha gas scheme was signed in 2018 with output due around 2025; tender limbo followed until ADNOC scrapped its awarded contracts in May 2023.
Read the caseA ransomware crew knocked Ahold Delhaize's US grocery systems offline for days
Inc Ransom hit Ahold Delhaize USA in Nov 2024; shutdowns killed e-commerce and pharmacy services across 2,000 stores; 2.2M people's data exposed.
Read the caseChina's State Reserves Bureau trader shorted copper — a $150M loss the state absorbed
Liu Qibing, chief trader for China's State Reserves Bureau, shorted copper futures and lost $150M. He doubled down, disappeared, and was later prosecuted.
Read the caseITV ended Clarkson's Millionaire — while denying it cancelled anything
After Clarkson's column about Meghan Markle, ITV let Who Wants to Be a Millionaire run out — in a statement that insisted nothing had been cancelled.
Read the caseBoeing spun off its fuselage plant in 2005 — it took 20 years and a near-crash to undo it
Boeing sold its Wichita factory to boost return on assets. The result: a publicly traded supplier, two decades of quality failures, and an $8.3B buyback.
Read the caseSingapore's oldest watch retailer sold at the 2007 peak — later absorbed by its rival
Sold for S$530M at the 2007 boom to a buyer paying with a bridge loan; bought back for S$112.7M after the crisis, then sold to Cortina for S$84.5M.
Read the caseTepco’s ID-card relapse threatened the restart of its idled nuclear fleet
Operators shared badges at the control-room gate years after ID abuse froze the plant — and Tepco’s own committee called its risk management insufficient.
Read the caseMoutai's wholesale price fell below its own list price — the 'liquid gold' myth broke
The flagship Feitian Moutai's wholesale price dropped to ¥1,485, undercutting the ¥1,499 official guidance for the first time in years
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