FoodXervices bet S$50M on a new HQ weeks before COVID — it never recovered (interview)
The 92-year-old Singapore food distributor opened a five-times-bigger, 80%-debt-financed HQ in 2020; sales fell 90% overnight; it liquidated in 2026.
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2,000 CASOS PUBLICADOS · ATUALIZADOS REGULARMENTEFlipkart and Amazon India's in-house smartphones flopped against Xiaomi's discounts
Both marketplaces launched own-brand budget phones to lift margins in India's biggest online category — and sold almost nobody one.
Ler o casoEY skipped a routine bank confirmation for three years while auditing Wirecard
Wirecard's auditor never asked a Singapore bank to confirm up to €1bn of 'cash' — a standard procedure — then faced a €1bn investor lawsuit.
Ler o casoDoughnut Time went from 30 stores to seven in a weekend — and owed staff wages
The cult doughnut chain went from 30 stores to seven in a weekend: staff paid weeks late, a landlord lockout, $70,000 in wage complaints.
Ler o casoDisney's John Carter lost $200M on marketing that never said what the film was
A $250M Edgar Rice Burroughs epic opened to $30M: no Mars in the title, no Pixar hook, no Burroughs, no Martian dog — as if they set out not to make us care.
Ler o casoCorporate Travel Management must refund UK clients over £58M it booked
The A$2B travel group suspended its shares, stood down its Europe head and will restate three years of UK revenue after an accounting review.
Ler o casoColes caved to shopper complaints and gave its 15c reusable bags away free
Six weeks after scrapping single-use bags, Coles made the 15c thicker bags free indefinitely in four states — and the waste industry called it a mess.
Ler o casoCasas Bahia burned its supplier credit — then the shelves emptied
Stretching supplier payments to 149 days backfired: insurers cut credit lines, inventory fell $1.1B in a quarter and losses hit R$10.1B.
Ler o casoBurger King's 'rib' Whopper had no ribs — Brazil made it change the name
The Whopper Costela was 100% pork shoulder with 'rib aroma'; Procon notified BK for misleading ads and the sandwich became Whopper Paleta Suína.
Ler o casoWesfarmers wrote down its $700M Homebase buy by $930M in two years
Bunnings' UK conquest cost more in impairments than the purchase price — first-half losses tripled and 45 stores faced closure.
Ler o casoBluebird's EU exit over a German pricing row left CALD children without Skysona
Bluebird Bio quit Europe in 2021 after a fight over Zynteglo's price, taking the region's only approved CALD gene therapy, Skysona, off the market with it.
Ler o casoBest World's China skincare accounting froze its shares: sales cash in personal accounts
SGX RegCo kept Best World suspended indefinitely after PwC found China sales proceeds parked in personal bank accounts and unexplained back-to-back deals.
Ler o casoAsiana's chairman forced out its caterer to raise cash — then flights ran short of meals
Kumho's chairman demanded a ₩160bn bond purchase from Asiana's caterer of 15 years, swapped in a JV whose factory then burned — and flights went hungry.
Ler o casoAsiana's auditor couldn't value the airline — chairman Park Sam-koo resigned
A qualified audit, a three-day trading halt and a restated 88.5% profit collapse forced Kumho Asiana's chairman to quit in March 2019.
Ler o caso123Milhas cancelled its Promo trips and offered only vouchers, not refunds
Brazil's discount travel site voided all September–December Promo packages and refused cash refunds — Senacon began weighing a fine and a sales ban.
Ler o casoWoolworths Holdings paid A$2.1B for David Jones in 2014 and sold it for about A$100M
South Africa's Woolworths Holdings bought Australia's David Jones for A$2.1B, wrote off more than A$1B, and sold it to Anchorage Capital for a reported A$100M.
Ler o casoTurkey arrested four over Vebitcoin hours after it halted all trading
The Turkish crypto platform cited unexpected demand and financial strain, halted all activities — and its administrators were arrested for fraud within hours.
Ler o casoUWM's dividend halt and $2B Oaktree rescue triggered a record 49% share plunge
United Wholesale Mortgage suspended its first-ever dividend, posted a $452M loss and took $2.05B from Oaktree — shares fell as much as 49%, a record.
Ler o casoMusk's 'significant backend' rewrite took Twitter down for five hours
Days after joking about disconnecting 'one of the more sensitive server racks', Musk's backend rewrite produced a five-hour global outage.
Ler o casoTweetDeck broke as Musk's tweet reading limits hit Twitter's power users
Days after Twitter capped reading at 600–6,000 posts a day, TweetDeck went blank for the power users and newsrooms that rely on it.
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