Force Motors' pandemic reset: exit tractors, triple revenue, zero debt
Firodia answered COVID's collapse of shared mobility by exiting tractors and three-wheelers, cutting material costs ₹1 lakh a vehicle — revenue tripled.
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500 VERÖFFENTLICHTE FÄLLE · REGELMÄSSIG AKTUALISIERTOtting's $1.05B rescue rebuilt NYCB into Flagstar and a classic regional bank
Otting's group injected $1.05B into spiraling NYCB, sold noncore units and renamed it Flagstar — reconstruction well underway, profitability still ahead.
Fall lesenFedEx to cut 1,700-2,000 Europe jobs, saving $125M-$175M a year via shared centers
Weak European demand pushed FedEx to cut up to 2,000 back-office jobs and consolidate into shared centers for $125M-$175M yearly savings from fiscal 2027.
Fall lesenForever 21's exclusive shipper EZ Worldwide exited Chapter 11 with Disney and Amazon
Its only big client's volumes collapsed; EZ Worldwide filed Chapter 11 and emerged diversified — Disney, H&M, Amazon — under a court-approved repayment plan.
Fall lesenEat Cook Joy refused a ransom demand and got its entire platform back
When a crime ring locked her AI food-tech startup out of its site before launch, founder Zainab Ghadiyali says she refused to pay and got everything back.
Fall lesenDigicel swapped $1.7B of debt to bondholders and pivoted from survival to growth
Peak debt of $7B forced founder Denis O'Brien to cede control in 2022; under CEO Marcelo Cataldo, debt is down to ~$2.7B and fibre build-out has resumed.
Fall lesenDHL eCommerce folded three Cincinnati properties into one $74M automated hub
DHL eCommerce opened a 307,000-sq-ft automated hub near Cincinnati's CVG airport in September 2023 — its largest US site — after consolidating three properties.
Fall lesenCracker Barrel's new CEO David Deno extended the food-first turnaround; EBITDA rose 11.4%
Six weeks in, Deno kept the back-to-basics plan — food, service, loyalty — as Q4 adjusted EBITDA rose 11.4% to $62.1M with traffic still down 6.1%.
Fall lesenCommonSpirit logged its first operating gain since the Dignity–CHI merger, up $40M
A year of struggles after Dignity Health and Catholic Health Initiatives merged, CommonSpirit posted its first operating gain and moved to a single CEO.
Fall lesenCars24 scrapped job titles and grades for a single designation: Builder
In July 2026 the used-car platform replaced titles, grades and bands with one designation, Builder, under an operating philosophy it calls Flatland.
Fall lesenBevy's COVID pivot to virtual events reached a $30M ARR pace, 15x its 2019 level
'No business' in March 2020; Bevy rebuilt its platform for virtual events, reached a $30M ARR pace — 15x 2019 — and closed a $40M Accel-led Series C.
Fall lesenBeth Israel and Lahey merged into Massachusetts' No. 2 system — price-capped for 7 years
Beth Israel Deaconess and Lahey merged into Massachusetts' No. 2 health system by accepting a seven-year price cap and indefinite Medicaid participation.
Fall lesenBeaumont, Botsford and Oakwood merged into Detroit's largest health system — $3.8B
After a 2013 merger with Henry Ford collapsed over physician culture, Beaumont led a three-way merger creating an 8-hospital, 25,000-employee Detroit system.
Fall lesenBayer cut 40% of its US middle managers and 99% of its 1,362-page handbook
COO Sebastian Guth told Fortune's Workplace Innovation Summit the cuts were about agility, not cost — and credited them for 23% North America growth.
Fall lesenAtrium Health and Wake Forest Baptist sealed a merger creating an $11.5B academic system
Charlotte's Atrium absorbed Winston-Salem's academic medical center after its UNC deal collapsed, planning a second medical school campus and a new tower.
Fall lesenAsus moved over 90% of US-bound PC and motherboard production out of China on tariffs
Facing US tariffs on China imports, Asus moved over 90% of its motherboard and PC production base to Thailand, Vietnam and Indonesia in Q2 2025.
Fall lesenAscension sold hospitals and pivoted to ambulatory care after a $2.7B loss year
After a $2.7B FY2023 net loss, Ascension sold hospitals and leaned into ambulatory and telehealth; quarterly operating income swung from -$291M to +$231M.
Fall lesenAllegheny Health Network sealed its rescue of loss-making Heritage Valley, pledging $285M
Heritage Valley lost $56M in FY2024 and faced $46M more; joining Highmark-owned AHN brings 16 hospitals, ~27,000 staff and a $285M ten-year rebuild.
Fall lesenAmerican Eagle cut SKUs and added regional hubs — and shipped 1.5 days faster
Four regional fulfillment hubs let AEO pull three weeks of stock out of stores and deliver to customers 1.5 days faster than pre-pandemic, at lower cost.
Fall lesenAdvocate Aurora and Atrium completed their merger, creating the $27B Advocate Health
Two non-overlapping nonprofit systems closed a merger forming Advocate Health — the fifth-largest US nonprofit system, with $27B revenue and 67 hospitals.
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