Lego's owner family handed management to an outsider and survived near-bankruptcy
After record losses, owner Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen made Jørgen Vig Knudstorp Lego's first non-family CEO; the company recovered to become the top toymaker.
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2,000 VERÖFFENTLICHTE FÄLLE · REGELMÄSSIG AKTUALISIERTFourth-generation Bill Wrigley Jr. took over in 1999 and revived the gum giant
Bill Wrigley Jr. took over after his father died, launched new gums and bought Altoids; Mars then paid $23 billion for the family firm in 2008.
Fall lesenBlessing Okon's social-commerce business switched couriers and recovered sales
After unreliable riders caused cancellations, Blessing Okon moved her business to verified, trackable last-mile apps; sales improved by March 2023.
Fall lesenCopeinca: a Peruvian fishmeal maker taken over, bankrupted, and rebuilt — 1994 to Cooke
Founded 1994, Oslo-listed 2007, bought by China Fishery (NOK 68.17), seized by creditors (2016), rebuilt under Cooke (2024) — Peru's largest fishing company.
Fall lesenSegway: a punchline brand bought by its Chinese rival and turned into a scooter giant
Ninebot - which Segway had accused of patent theft - bought the brand for over $75M and rode the kick-scooter boom past one million units a year by 2018.
Fall lesenHong Kong floated MTR and its rail-plus-property model made it self-funding
In 2000 Hong Kong sold a quarter of the metro operator, keeping the rail-plus-property model that makes it profitable
Fall lesenBrazil sold Usiminas in 1991, its first big privatization, to a Bozano-led group
Priced at $1.6bn in May 1991, Usiminas became Brazil's first major state company sold, in an October 1991 auction.
Fall lesenBuenos Aires courts cut ruling time by moving from Prometea to ChatGPT
After Prometea raised output nearly 300%, Buenos Aires moved routine legal drafting to ChatGPT and cut a sentence from an hour to about 10 minutes.
Fall lesenA&W: franchisees bought their brand back from Yum! and rebuilt a fading icon
Sold off by Yum! with about 300 US stores left, A&W returned under franchisee ownership - in-house root beer lifted same-store sales 30%+.
Fall lesenSamsung's heir became executive chairman after paying Korea's biggest-ever estate tax
A ₩26tn estate and a 50% tax rate put three-generation control of Samsung at risk. The family paid in the open and kept the company.
Fall lesenHalloween's 2018 reboot made $255M on a $10M budget, the franchise's best
Blumhouse revived the 40-year-old Halloween franchise by ignoring every sequel; the 2018 film grossed $255.4M worldwide on a $10M budget.
Fall lesenAnkit Infotek moved half its orders online in four years
Ankit Infotek kept its expert SP Road retail base but added e-commerce; four years later, its website generated 50% of orders.
Fall lesenAlmarai: dairy cows in the Saudi desert, grown from 1977 to the Gulf's top food maker
A 1977 prince-led dairy bet on desert vertical integration — own feed, cows, plants, cold chain — to become the Gulf's largest food maker (2005 IPO, PIF 2017).
Fall lesenKioxia, the memory unit that nearly sank Toshiba, listed on the TSE in 2024
The NAND flash inventor survived Toshiba's collapse and a withdrawn IPO to become Japan's second-biggest listing of 2024 and an AI-era centerpiece.
Fall lesenHanded JCB in 1975, Anthony Bamford built the digger maker into a £6.5bn world leader.
Joseph Bamford retired in 1975; son Anthony's vertical-integration and India bets took JCB from £43m turnover to £6.5bn, 22 plants and 19,000 staff.
Fall lesenTsinghua Unigroup's ¥100bn restructuring handed the chip group to a fund consortium
China's Tsinghua Unigroup was restructured as seven consolidated companies; a Wise Road–Jianguang consortium put in ¥60bn and took 100% by July 2022.
Fall lesenCarousell joined Singapore’s Anti-Scam Centre and preempted a ticket-scam surge
Facing record e-commerce fraud, Carousell embedded staff with police and paused Taylor Swift ticket sales when early signals showed the scam risk was rising.
Fall lesenHyundai restored its 1974 Pony Coupe after 49 years
Hyundai restored its 1974 Pony Coupe with its original designer, revealed in 2023, anchoring a heritage program.
Fall lesenMantle Ridge installed Harrison; CSX adopted precision railroading
Mantle Ridge's 4.9% stake and proxy threat brought Hunter Harrison in as CEO; CSX shares rose about 51% in the first ten months of 2017.
Fall lesenD&D rebuilt itself around accessibility and became a $1B brand
Wizards' play-first 5th edition and its embrace of streamed play turned a niche game into a mass franchise.
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